The authorities still carry out inspections and rip out excess plants, but their arrival ... “Under the terms of the treaty, using coca leaf for the extraction of cocaine would remain as illegal ...

Cocaine again is making headlines 40 years after Pablo Escobar and his Medellin cartel flooded America with “blow.” ...

Efforts to strangle early coca production experiments in Colón and Olancho, the departments where the plant was first detected ... “rustic” and designed only to process coca leaves into cocaine paste, ...

The global strategy to combat the illegal production and trade of cocaine by designating the coca plant as harmful has failed, the minister told the foreign representatives. The evidence is ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Cocaine again is making headlines 40 years after Pablo Escobar and his Medellin cartel flooded America with “blow.”Coca-plant cultivation has shot up in ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca -- the main ingredient in cocaine -- from a list of harmful substances.

There are five types of plants prohibited in Indonesia, including marijuana, which falls under the category of narcotics.

India with its vast pharmaceutical and chemical industries is an emerging source for fentanyl precursor chemicals. Mexican ...

Used not only for cocaine, the coca leaf is also chewed as a stimulant ... the only way to stop drug traffickers monopolising the plant -- forcing rural communities to grow it for them, and ...