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 ...

Scientists genetically modify a tobacco plant to produce COCAINE in its leaves. Cocaine is produced naturally in the leaves of the Erythroxylum coca plant; Scientists have discovered the chemical ...

There are two species, Erythroxylum coca, which is grown at higher elevations and is preferred for the legal market, and Erythroxylum novogratenensis, which is cultivated at lower elevations and […] ...

In 1863, an obscure chemist named Angelo Mariani from Corsica arrived in Paris. Coming from a long line of doctors and chemists, Mariani set up shop in a modest Parisian quarter and began unlocking ...

Elucidation of tropane alkaloid biosynthesis in Erythroxylum coca using a microbial pathway discovery platform. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2022; 119 (49) DOI: 10.1073/pnas ...

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 ...

As the University of Oxford explains, Erythroxylum is the genus for the coca plant, and notes “In 1855 an anaesthetic alkaloid (cocaine) was isolated from coca leaves.” ...

Traces of cocaine have been discovered in the brains of two people who died in Italy 400 years ago, revealing that the drug was being used in Europe much earlier than previously thought.