Bolivia is one of very few countries with a legal market for coca. In the rest of the world it is controlled with the same ...

With cocaine production at an all-time high, Colombia's government is testing a pacific approach to its narcotics problem: paying farmers to uproot crops of coca, the drug's main ingredient. With high ...

Coca crops and cocaine production in Colombia increased during 2023, as the government has stopped forced eradication efforts and concentrated on seizures to fight drug trafficking. Coca cultivation ...

Colombia remains the world’s top cocaine producer, and each year the South American country breaks new records. Coca crops ...

Will the WHO confront its colonial legacy and right a historic wrong? The critical review of the coca leaf could transform ...

Even as production surges, domestic and foreign shifts in the global drug industry have devastated many poor Colombians whose livelihoods are tied to cocaine. Roger Guzman, 19, harvesting coca ...

coca is extracted from these leaves to make cocaine). One such example can be seen below. UNITED KINGDOM – JULY 20: Glass bottle of medicine prepared by Parke, Davis and Co of London.

The region has approximately 55,000 hectares of coca crops and is one of Colombia's main producers of cocaine. Petro said farmers in Catatumbo will eradicate their coca plantings voluntarily and ...

She also gave the deputy a Coca-Cola aluminum can that she drank ... to a hospital where she tested positive for having MDMA, cocaine and Benzodiazepines (Benzo's) in her blood and urine ...

A report published in October by the international organization found that the cultivation of coca bushes increased by 10% in Colombia in 2023, while potential cocaine production increased 53% ...

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An Indiana man has admitted he tried to kill his wife by poisoning her Coca-Cola with cocaine, MDMA and benzodiazepines so he could marry her daughter, authorities said. Alfred W. Ruf, 71 ...