For the fourth year in a row, cocaine production declined in Bolivia after the DEA was forced to leave the country, Mint Press News reports. Last year, cocaine production dropped 11% over the prior ...

Global cocaine production has reached record levels as demand rebounds following Covid lockdowns, a new report has found. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime said coca cultivation rose by 35% between ...

For many decades, the coca plant—the main ingredient in cocaine—has been grown almost exclusively in South America. But a new ...

"Manufacturers in South America improved the process they used to extract cocaine from coca leaves, allowing them to increase production without having to grow any more crops." Turmoil in the ...

Colombian rebels have reopened their war on the oil industry with a wave of pipeline attacks that sent crude spilling into ...

The production of cocaine hydrochloride, meanwhile, also increased by 24%, to 1,738 tons annually. The three border departments of Norte de Santander, Nariño and Putumayo are where 65% of all of ...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that potential coca production had risen by 24% since 2021. Coca leaves are the key ingredient in cocaine and Colombia has long been the ...

The US government also encouraged Bolivian authorities to up the fight against cocaine cultivation and production. “The United States encourages the Government of Bolivia to continue its efforts ...

Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw announced that a 24-year-old Delanco man is facing multiple child pornography ...

A Greek appeals court on Friday reduced the prison sentences of 11 men involved in trafficking 1.2 metric tons of cocaine ...

The British Government estimates the value of Captagon to be approximately three times the combined trade of the Mexican ...

An ingredient developed from coca, considered amongst the most illicit and stigmatised plants on the planet, can cut sugar in beverages by up to 40%.