Even experts can't tell wild coca plants from those grown to make cocaine, according to a new study. Researchers found that while the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has collected annual ...

The Inca system for growing and harvesting coca leaves involved many steps. The plants were grown in clear-cut fields in warm, wet regions. When ready for harvesting, the leaves would tear when ...

Forests have been cut down to make way for coca bushes Colombia has increased its cultivation of coca plants - the main ingredient in the illegal drug cocaine - by 43%, a new UN report says.

This simple difference has been used in the field for coca plantation monitoring surveys. But differences in leaf size and shape may not be a reliable way to separate the types of plants.

Peru has temporarily halted the eradication of coca plants used to make cocaine as it works to redesign its anti-drug programs, the country's interior ministry announced this week. News of the ...

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