From her grave a miraculous plant sprouted. It gave strength and vigor and alleviated pain and suffering. The people called it coca, in honor of that beautiful and irresistible woman. This myth ...

Even experts can't tell wild coca plants from those grown to make cocaine, according to a new study. Researchers found that while the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has collected annual ...

A soldier for the military police in Honduras is burning a pile of recently destroyed coca plants, the main ingredient in cocaine. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

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 ...

Forests have been cut down to make way for coca bushes Colombia has increased its cultivation of coca plants - the main ingredient in the illegal drug cocaine - by 43%, a new UN report says.

The UN allows a few Indigenous groups that have harvested coca ancestrally to cultivate the plant — including the group that Power Leaves is partnering with, according to a pitch deck that ...