Colombia's president says cocaine is "no worse" than whiskey as global efforts to "decolonize" the plant spread ...

From her grave a miraculous plant sprouted. It gave strength and ... being the source material for the highly addictive drug cocaine, coca continues to be a large part of Andean culture today.

Although cocaine is consumed in every part of the world, its base, the coca plant, is mainly cultivated ... released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) claiming that the ...

Coca cultivation in Honduras spread to 16 municipalities in 2024 indicating that the crop has become an established criminal ...

Morales, who had already famously thrown the US Drug Enforcement Agency out of ... It is currently legal to grow coca plants in several countries – as long as they are not used to make cocaine.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro wants to reduce coca planting in a northeastern region rattled by rebel attacks by paying ...

Peru has temporarily halted the eradication of coca plants used to make cocaine as it works to redesign its anti-drug programs, the country's interior ministry announced this week. News of the ...

The global strategy to combat the illegal production and trade of cocaine by designating the coca plant as harmful has failed, the minister told the foreign representatives. The evidence is ...

Colombia's national potential cocaine output and the amount of cocaine produced per hectare are growing, thanks to highly-productive coca strains, even as crop area shrinks. (% change) Net coca ...