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

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

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 ...

In one of his final acts, Vivek Murthy, the outgoing U.S. surgeon general, said alcoholic beverages should carry an updated ...

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 ...

Bolivia is pushing for the global decriminalisation of coca leaf – the main ingredient of cocaine – to export the plant and ease its economic crisis. But a "landmark" recent decision by the ...

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

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

Traditional uses of coca leaves have been recognized on many occasions as part of the identity and collective memory of Colombian, Bolivian and other indigenous communities in the Andean region.

Coca cultivation in Honduras spread to 16 municipalities in 2024 indicating that the crop has become an established criminal ...