“Ingredients from the coca leaf are used, but there is no cocaine ... We purchase a crude extract and purify it further into one chemical form, cocaine hydrochloride U.S.P.” That product ...

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

Among these flavors is the extract of coca plant leaves and, formerly, caffeine-packed kola nuts, which were once at the heart of Coke's iconic flavor. Vanilla and cinnamon are also in the mix of ...

Another added: “Not bulls***. In fact, Coke still uses a coca (the leaf cocaine comes from) extract in the Coke formula. They get it from the only company in the US that’s legally allowed to ...

In 2023, the South American country set a new record last year for coca leaf cultivation and cocaine production, which rose 53 percent from 1,738 tonnes (1,915 US tons) to 2,600 tonnes ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca -- the main ingredient in cocaine -- from a list of harmful substances.