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

A group of artisans and two designers from Bogotá are determined to recover the plant’s ancestral use as a pigment and ...

Coca leaves, minus the cocaine, could become the next hot wellness trend. That's the bet that Pat McCutcheon, a former CEO of a Canadian cannabis company, is making with his new venture ...

This myth acknowledges the great importance that coca leaves had, and continue to have, in the culture and history of the people of the Andes. Despite gaining notoriety in modern times for being ...

Bats are known to chew and spit out leaves, like humans chew and spit out tobacco or coca, but this is the first continuous ...

Fans of Coca-Cola have been left shocked after discovering the origins of the soft drink’s iconic name. The drink, which was founded in 1886, continues to make billions around the globe and saw ...

Kokabol will process coca leaves to take advantage of their nutritional and medicinal properties, Juanca also explained. President Luis Arce Catacora said last week that the creation of the ...

Colombia President Gustavo Petro is calling on his country's Congress to legalize marijuana, saying its prohibition "only ...

In 2013, Bolivia reacceded to the convention – with an exemption for chewing coca leaves. But Morales's push for a WHO study on coca ended in 2019, when he ran for an unconstitutional third term ...

Edgar mixes liquid coca paste with a mask on because it can be hard to breathe amid the noxious fumes that emanate from various buckets marinating the huge mix of leaves. In 2015, 81% of coca ...