Farmers used to grow seven, eight hectares of coca and ... Around seven of these barrels are needed to hold the ton of coca leaves. There it's left to sit for three days. The gasoline extracts ...

Locals still use coca today to combat altitude sickness, and to relieve pain and hunger. Some still believe that its leaves can be read to tell the future. Growing more than six feet tall ...

Bolivian President Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian and former coca grower, has repeatedly defended the use of coca leaves and has lobbied to remove coca from the 1961 convention. The narcotics board ...

The leaf, the argument went ... It is currently legal to grow coca plants in several countries – as long as they are not used to make cocaine. Colombia was responsible for almost two-thirds ...

Coca leaf has long held spiritual significance for ... that may soon be propelled onto the world stage. “This is a coca-growing town that lives off coca,” Frido Duran, a coca grower in Yungas ...

Something is happening in the illegal business of growing coca leaf and selling its paste that takes place in what some call ...

As the WHO reviews coca leaves' international scheduling status, momentum is growing to address this injustice to Indigenous Andean peoples.

Morales entered Bolivian public life as the leader of a coca growers union and is on a crusade to persuade the international community to stop stigmatizing the leaf. As president, he has sharply ...

"We are pleased to partner with Filament Health and Magdalena to facilitate this second import of coca leaf," said Silveria Dongo Gonzales, Technical Director of ENACO. "We appreciate Filament and ...

Peru's coca farmers, who grow the bushy plant used to make cocaine, say they want help, too. Prices for coca leaves sold to drug gangs have slumped 70% since Peru went on lockdown last month ...