Within Bolivia, the world’s third-biggest producer of the coca leaf, and of cocaine, the ancient leaf has inspired spiritual rituals among Indigenous communities for generations — and more ...

Inside the market traders unfasten coloured sacks filled with coca, grasping handfuls of leaves for examination. Coca is selling at just over $4 (£2) per kg (2.2lb). Eucevio Alejo is a coca farmer and ...

A coca vendor works at a legal coca leaf market in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Bolivia’s government has revived a years-long battle to get the U.N. to decriminalize the coca leaf ...

According to The Atlantic, in the year 2003, Maywood Chemical Works — now owned by Stepan Company — imported more than 385,000 pounds of coca leaf for Coca-Cola, enough to make $200 million of ...

One ton of coca leaf costs over $5,500 in Peru, so the Stepan Company would be paying between $308,000 and $3.2 million for the shipment of the illicit leaves if the amount it imports has remained ...

Since 2021, PLC has concentrated on coca leaf innovation, establishing and licensing the infrastructure to supply high-quality inputs to the food and beverage markets.

In Bolivia, the government-authorized El Viejo Roble distillery, which for years has been making liquor from coca leaves is now gearing up to launch a new coca-infused beer, hoping the WHO's ...

Buzz is building around a new star beverage in Bolivia, where the coca leaf has long been legal despite the U.N.’s blanket prohibition due to the plant’s association with cocaine.

A United Nations convention classifies coca leaf as a narcotic and imposes a blanket prohibition on drugs. However, last fall the World Health Organization announced it would launch a scientific ...