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

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 ...

Colombia and Bolivia will propose to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs to accept the traditional use of coca leaf and remove it from the list of banned substances, Deputy Foreign Minister Laura ...

In 2016, chewing of the coca leaf was declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. In March 2017, the General Coca Leaf Law came into force, to regulate the ...

Within this trio, Bolivia—second to Peru as a producer of coca leaf and to Colombia as a producer of refined cocaine—has been the largest recipient of U.S. counternarcotics aid. The impact of ...

Used not only for cocaine, the coca leaf is also chewed as a stimulant in countries such as Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, or brewed into a tea thought to combat altitude sickness.