We asked. If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of coca leaves soaking in liquid could be mistaken for a clandestine cocaine lab.

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

But Bolivians' legal right to chew the leaf was lost when the ... rum – and a new $2 beer from a government-authorised distillery. But the coca-infused products remained "limited to artisanal ...

Coca leaves, minus the cocaine, could become the next hot wellness trend. That's the bet that Pat McCutcheon, a former CEO of a Canadian cannabis company, is making with his new venture ...

Here they will turn the coca leaves into coca paste, a brick of dried powder that is just one stop short of pure cocaine. Small amounts of coca are legal for the indigenous who consider it a ...

Morales entered Bolivian public life as the leader of a coca growers union and is on a crusade to persuade the international community to stop stigmatizing the leaf. As president, he has sharply ...