have historically been able to study and commercialize coca-leaf extract for use in consumer products and medicine. The UN allows a few Indigenous groups that have harvested coca ancestrally to ...

Coca leaves are still used in indigenous medicine and religious ceremonies. Andean people have chewed coca for thousands of years to stave off hunger and as a remedy for ailments from altitude ...

You probably know about Fanta, the brand of orange soda that's almost guaranteed to be on shelves somewhere in a 10-mile (16-km) radius of where you live. But you might not know that the question of ...

This myth acknowledges the great importance that coca leaves had, and continue to have, in the culture and history of the people of the Andes. Despite gaining notoriety in modern times for being ...

Here they will turn the coca leaves into coca paste, a brick of dried powder that is just one stop short of pure cocaine. Small amounts of coca are legal for the indigenous who consider it a ...

Coca Cola was invented in the United States in 1886 as a medicine, rather than a drink, to stimulate the brain and the nervous system, from a mixture of coca leaves and kola nuts, sweetened with ...

"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 ...

Bolivia, like neighbouring Peru, permits limited cultivation of coca for legal use in cooking, folk medicine and Andean ... to stop stigmatizing the leaf. As president, he has sharply boosted ...

Two of the samples came back positive for the active components of coca, meaning the people likely chewed on the leaves just ...