Colombia's president says cocaine is "no worse" than whiskey as global efforts to "decolonize" the plant spread ...

Candler in turn founded the Coca-Cola Company in 1892 ... cocaine from the recipe comes down to public attitudes about the drug and racism. Cocaine was all well and good among the affluent ...

Coca cultivation in Honduras spread to 16 municipalities in 2024 indicating that the crop has become an established criminal ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro wants to reduce coca planting in a northeastern region rattled by rebel attacks by paying ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca - ...

"Decocainized" coca-leaf extract was approved for use in food and beverages by the Food and Drug Administration in 1977, though the United Nations has maintained prohibition for both cocaine and ...

which has since underpinned international drug policy. In 2011, President Evo Morales (the country's first Indigenous ruler and a former coca producer and union leader) notified the UN that ...

The threat of GLP-1 drugs to The Coca-Cola Co. and beverage sector more broadly is likewise overstated, suggested Quincey. While he agreed that “we continue to see anecdotal evidence of the ...

Colombia’s Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia asked the United Nations’ Commission on Narcotic Drugs to remove coca, the base ingredient of cocaine, from its list of harmful substances. At a commission ...

Petro has accused the rebels of trying to take over the region to control its coca crops and its drug-trafficking routes. Cocaine production in Colombia has been rising since 2013, according to ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca -- the main ingredient in cocaine -- from a list of harmful substances.