Doctors hope to see more of the party drug in transplant hospitals: "It will be a great advance if this process is approved by the regulatory agencies." University of Maryland School of Medicine The ...

To explain why he grows coca, the raw material for cocaine, rather than food crops on his 5-acre farm in southern Colombia, Luis Tapia does the math. Every three months, Tapia, 60, harvests the bright ...

LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: Two of the world's biggest cocaine suppliers are about to call for legalization of the main ingredient in cocaine, the coca leaf. Bolivia and Colombia are expected to make that ...

Bolivia is pushing for the global decriminalisation of coca leaf – the main ingredient of cocaine – to export the plant and ease its economic crisis. But a "landmark" recent decision by the World ...

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Two of the world's biggest cocaine suppliers, Colombia and Bolivia, want the U.N. to remove the coca leaf from its list of dangerous drugs. They argue the leaf has many uses unrelated to narcotics.

The country's rising cocaine production has alarmed Washington, which has spent more than $10 billion over nearly two decades to attack the... Colombia Is Growing Record Amounts Of Coca, The Key ...