A United Nations report found a rise in users, confiscation and deaths as cocaine trafficking expands into Africa and Asia, ...

Despite being the infamous raw material of the drug cocaine, very little is actually known about the coca plant and its wild relatives in the Andes mountains. Oscar Alejandro Perez-Escobar, a ...

Researchers detected active components of the coca plant in brain tissues from 17th-century remains, pushing back the timeline of cocaine use on the continent by almost two centuries.

Related: Nazca child ingested psychoactive cactus just before ceremonial death in ancient Peru Cocaine is extracted from the leaves of coca plant (Erythroxylum coca), a bush native to South ...

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According to the team, at least two preserved brains buried in a crypt near a 17th century hospital display evidence of the coca plant’s active components—cocaine, benzoylecgonine, and hygrine.

Pat McCutcheon, the company’s CEO, said the flavour of the sweetener has similarities to Coca-Cola, which famously used to contain cocaine until 1929, but his firm hopes it will help create ...

The findings revealed that distinct coca plants had begun to evolve long before humans first arrived in South America 15,000 years ago, though the timeline for when the cultivated, cocaine ...

People Were Doing Cocaine in the 1600s, Research Shows. Researchers studying a crypt in Milan found that the coca plant may have been used “for recreational purposes” ...

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 ...

One of those cocaine users was a man between the ages of 30 and 45 who had suffered from syphilis. The age, sex and ailment of the other person proved impossible to determine, the researchers said.