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Coca Summit in Peru Focuses Push to End Global Prohibition
Policymakers and Indigenous leaders urge "decolonization" of coca laws, highlighting the leaf's cultural importance ahead of ...
Business Insider2 年
An unusual startup is looking to raise $20 million to turn coca leaves into the next trendy ...
McCutcheon said the company is pitching coca-leaf extract as an additive for energy drinks before moving on to other food products. The benefits are thought to be many: Coca leaf has a long ...
THE WEEK8 个月
Bolivia's battle to decriminalise coca leaf
Bolivia is pushing for the global decriminalisation of coca leaf – the main ingredient of cocaine – to export the plant and ease its economic crisis. But a "landmark" recent decision by the ...
MercoPress16 年
Andean Indians coca leaves chewing habit in UN controversy
The report said that "coca leaf chewing should have been abolished" in those countries 25 years ago. But representatives from Peru and Bolivia called the board's report disrespectful of indigenous ...
Business Insider4 年
Step inside a Colombian jungle lab where coca leaf begin its journey to become cocaine
THIS COCA LABORATORY OPERATES ONLY because it has the permission from the FARC dissidents who rule from the jungles. And right now, the coca is about to change. To evolve. "Laboratory" is a grand ...
MercoPress17 天
Bolivia to produce toothpaste made of coca leaves
Minister of Productive Development and Plural Economy Néstor Huanca Tuesday said the Industrialization of the Bolivian Coca Leaf under the brand Kokabol involved a US$ 9 million investment.