Colombia’s counternarcotics police may resume the use of the controversial herbicide glyphosate in efforts to reduce the illegal cultivation of coca. According to documents released by Bogota ...

Marijuana or ganja is classified as a Category I narcotic under Indonesia’s Law No. 35 of 2009, making its cultivation, use, and sale illegal in any form. According to the National Narcotics Agency , ...

Colombia proposes legal coca, poppy cultivation for medical, scientific use. New decree prioritizes indigenous, public health protections.

Ever wondered how scientists tell apart coca plants grown for different human uses (sometimes illegal) from those that grow wild? A new paper published today in Molecular Biology and Evolution reveals ...

However, the global demand for cocaine as a recreational and criminalised drug has driven intensive cultivation of coca and contributed to deforestation and conflict in the region. Coca plants belong ...

However, in recent decades, global demand for cocaine has driven intensive coca agriculture, placing it at the center of armed conflict and deforestation. Origins of coca plants . Coca plants belong ...

Article Title. Morphometrics and Phylogenomics of Coca (Erythroxylum spp.) Illuminate Its Reticulate Evolution, With Implications for Taxonomy ...

The leaves of the two species - plants grown specifically under human cultivation and adapted to a human environment -were thought to be different from leaves of closely related wild Erythroxylum ...

What is coca? Coca plants belong to a group of 270 species of the genus Erythroxylum.Just two of these tropical plants are cultivated by people at scale: E. novogranatense in the drier regions and E.