A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that while the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has collected annual data on areas of coca ...

The difference between coca leaves and cocaine, Harvard's Lester Grinspoon once quipped, is the difference between traveling by donkey and jet plane. A clever line, but one that misses an essential ...

A short drive north of Bolivia’s capital La Paz, deep in the lush green valleys of the Yungas, Alicia Calle, a middle-aged Indigenous cocalero (coca farmer), plucked the leaves off the shrubs on her ...

Despite the stigma, the coca plant is effectively entering the drug reform movement as part of an expected “third wave of decriminalization” along with other controlled substances including ...

A new paper reveals that it's not as straightforward as it might seem. Despite decades of data collection by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which has been valuable to monitor ...

Suspended from the Timken's ceiling is a massive paper-lantern poporo vessel — used to mash coca leaves — casting shadows on the floor. In artist Marisol Rendón's native Colombia, the coca leaf has a ...

YUNGAS, Bolivia — Tomas Zavala performs a ritual ahead of each workday in his coca field. Deep in the lush green mountains of Bolivia’s Yungas region, the 69-year-old farmer closes his eyes, faces the ...

Researchers studying a crypt in Milan found that the coca plant may have been used “for recreational purposes” Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in ...

TORONTO — Power Leaves Corp. has formulated DeCarb, a plant-based coca extract isolate. DeCarb, which is the company’s third coca extract product to be formulated, may be used in the food and beverage ...