The coca plant has been cultivated in South America for thousands of years and used for a variety of ritual, spiritual, and physical purposes by numerous Indigenous cultures. Some of these uses ...

Efforts to strangle early coca production experiments in Colón and Olancho, the departments where the plant was first detected, seem to have backfired, pushing cultivators to grow in new regions of ...

From her grave a miraculous plant sprouted. It gave strength and vigor and alleviated pain and suffering. The people called it coca, in honor of that beautiful and irresistible woman. This myth ...

Coca in Colombia has historically been more heavily criminalized than either Peru or Bolivia given how there’s less cultural tradition and the plant is almost exclusively grown for the narco ...