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 ...

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 ...

To explain why he grows coca, the raw material for cocaine, rather than food crops on his 5-acre farm in southern Colombia, Luis Tapia does the math. Every three months, Tapia, 60, harvests the bright ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Two Mexican drug cartels “wholly control” some maritime ports where precursor chemicals for the deadly drug fentanyl are coming in. They also are cultivating coca ...

Accounting for $1.5 billion in 2020, the cocaine drug market is the second largest illegal drug market in the world. It comes from Erythroxylum coca, a plant native to South America that local people ...

Coca is the main ingredient for making cocaine. It's hands down the most profitable product in the game. But it’s not just a matter of planting seeds and waiting for the money to roll in. Getting ...

Coca-Cola might be the world’s most recognizable brand. But what would it be with only half the name? An Indigenous business in Colombia, acting, it says, “in defense of the coca leaf,” is asking the ...

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