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Bolivia’s Female Coca Farmers Are Fighting To Change Their Communities
Indigenous women growing coca in rural Bolivia experience violence and marginalisation. Now, they're fighting for change.
You Can Still Buy Alcohol Made with Coca Leaves
In the late 1800s, making booze infused with coca leaves was no biggie – but only a few of these products have survive today.
I Followed a Kilo of Cocaine From Field to Street
In a new book, Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels, war correspondent Toby Muse reports on the human stories behind the drug's passage across Colombia, from coca leaf pickers and jungle chemists to cartel sicarios and speedboat smugglers.
The World's Biggest Legal Coca Industry Might Get Shut Down
A right-wing power grab in Bolivia could spell the end of a system that has likely kept the drug war in check.
How Coca Leaf Became Colombia’s New Superfood
At the Embajada de la Coca, the green leaf is being restored to its rightful place as a powerful medicinal plant and super-nutrient that should be revered instead of reviled.
Bolivia ended its drug war by kicking out the DEA and legalizing coca
Though the US said this month that Bolivia has "demonstrably failed" to fulfill its counter-narcotics commitments, there is less violence, less cocaine, and even less coca in Bolivia than there was before.
The Golden Age of Drug Trafficking: How Meth, Cocaine, and Heroin Move Around the World
Just as globalization has changed the way the world does business, it's also changed the way the world manufactures, transports, and obtains illegal drugs. As a result, more people are getting high today than ever before.
Bolivia's President Suggested the Pope Try Coca
During Evo Morales' visit to the vatican he gave Pope Francis three books about the coca leaf.
A New Kind of Coca Leaf Is Thriving in Southern Colombia
Farmers are growing a super resistant coca leaf that can withstand glyphosate fumigation they say has continued despite the government's promises to stop using the chemical that has been linked to cancer.
The War on Drugs Isn't Just Destroying Lives — It's Also Killing the Environment
Ahead of a UN General Assembly session on international drug policy, the Open Society Foundation says environmental devastation is among the collateral damage caused by anti-drug programs.