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 ...

From her grave a miraculous plant sprouted ... After the conquest coca consumption spread among the indigenous population, as recorded by many Spanish colonists who exploited the Inca as slave ...

The UN allows a few Indigenous groups that have harvested coca ancestrally to cultivate the plant — including the group that Power Leaves is partnering with, according to a pitch deck that ...

Bolivia and Peru have defended the continued, traditional use of coca leaves which have been chewed by indigenous populations for centuries, after they were criticized by a UN drugs agency report.

Indigenous communities in South America ... It is currently legal to grow coca plants in several countries – as long as they are not used to make cocaine. Colombia was responsible for ...