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 ...

The coca plant has been cultivated in South America for thousands of years and used for a variety of ritual, spiritual, and ...

Its effects include raised heart ... votive offerings that depict everyday coca-chewing; and intricately decorated pouches to carry leaves. Statue of an Inca porter, holding a coca leaf container ...

President Morales in one of his many trips abroad chewing a coca leaf Bolivia will again belong to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs after its bid to rejoin with a reservation that it ...

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 ...