A United Nations report found a rise in users, confiscation and deaths as cocaine trafficking expands into Africa and Asia, ...

It’s kind of a sexy term” for a drug that rarely includes actual coke, says one researcher, but that hasn’t hurt the ...

The global cocaine trade keeps setting new records, with cocaine the world's fastest-growing illicit drug market as Colombia ...

A major drug cartel, operating from Pakistan and Dubai, has been busted for smuggling adulterated cocaine across India. The Delhi Police's special cell filed a chargesheet against 14 individuals, ...

This on its own wouldn’t have attracted the attention of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, were it not for the fact that coca is the primary raw material for cocaine.

As the chart shows, 2023 seizures of cocaine reached an all-time high, which incidentally did nothing to curb the flow of the narcotic. Source: UNODC Colombia Coca Cultivation Surveys 2013 to 2023.

The cocaine was concealed inside 10 packages of hot chocolate, which was brought to the United States by a courier from Guatemala, said Public Affairs Officer at US Customs and Border Protection ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized $900,000 worth of cocaine concealed within packages of hot chocolate last month, the agency said Thursday.

DULLES, Va. — Officers intercepted 28 pounds of cocaine concealed as hot chocolate from Guatemala. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Washington Dulles International Airport examined ...

More Cocaine Seized, More Cocaine Produced While the government has stepped up its efforts to stem the flow of cocaine from Colombia to consumption markets, the report found that the country’s ...

Cocaine is extracted from the leaves of coca plant (Erythroxylum coca), a bush native to South America. When Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci arrived in what is now Venezuela in 1499, he noticed ...