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

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca - ...

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

In 2023, the South American country set a new record last year for coca leaf cultivation and cocaine production, which rose 53 percent from 1,738 tonnes (1,915 US tons) to 2,600 tonnes ...

The substance, hexahydrocannabinol, has never previously been scheduled. The US abstained for reasons unclear.

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.

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