Coca leaves, minus the cocaine, could become the next hot wellness trend. That's the bet that Pat McCutcheon, a former CEO of a Canadian cannabis company, is making with his new venture ...

Colombia's record-high cocaine production is fueling instability, corruption, and violence, threatening the nation's economy ...

Here they will turn the coca leaves into coca paste, a brick of dried powder that is just one stop short of pure cocaine. Small amounts of coca are legal for the indigenous who consider it a ...

Despite gaining notoriety in modern times for being the source material for the highly addictive drug cocaine, coca continues to be a large part of Andean culture today. Unprocessed leaves from ...

In 2023, two Canadian companies were granted amendments to their dealer’s licenses from Health Canada to legally possess, produce, sell and distribute coca leaf and cocaine to other licence ...

Bolivia is pushing for the global decriminalisation of coca leaf – the main ingredient of cocaine – to export the plant and ease its economic crisis. But a "landmark" recent decision by the ...

The film depicts the bear’s drug-induced trail of terror and the victims it leaves behind. The real story is less bloody. In December 1985, the Georgia Bureau of ...