Since the Western world came across the South American plant genus Erythroxylum, the use of this multifaceted genus has been associated with the production of soft drinks, such as Coca Cola, or with ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta-The Bogor City Police Resort on Monday paid a visit to the Bogor Botanical Garden to conduct an inquiry related to a report suggesting there is a plant in the area that is used to ...

A new paper published today in Molecular Biology and Evolution reveals that it's not as straightforward as it might seem. Despite decades of data collection by the United Nations Office on Drugs and ...

The Incas chewed it in sacred ceremonies but the United States will be rather less respectful of the coca leaf in a modern ritual: battling Bolivia over drugs policy. The US is expected to push this ...

Matthew Bristow spent two years documenting the cocaine industry in Colombia. In the first of three films, he meets the farmers guardian.co.uk Up close, erythroxylum coca looks almost pretty – a plant ...

All lucrative plants are grown in multiple locations, as far as I know. So why is coca only cultivated in South America? All lucrative plants are grown in multiple locations, as far as I know. So why ...

Coca plants likely reached Milan unbeknownst to the authorities in the 17th century, scientists have said after discovering traces of the drugs on two bodies ...

Tropane alkaloids (TAs) are heterocyclic nitrogenous metabolites found across seven orders of angiosperms, including Malpighiales (Erythroxylaceae) and Solanales (Solanaceae). Despite the ...