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Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin. Three thousand years before the birth of Christ, ancient Incas in the Andes chewed coca leaves to get their hearts racing and to speed their…

Cocaine is the second most popular illegal recreational drug in the United States (behind cannabis) and the U.S. is the world’s largest consumer of cocaine. Cocaine is commonly used in middle to upper-class communities and is known as a “rich man’s…

Cocaine is one of the few products grown, processed, exported and distributed in the Third World. Exports alone are valued at about half the world coffee trade if estimates of deliveries to consumer countries are combined. But when bulk shipments…

Cocaine comes from the coca plant, which is mostly grown in Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru. The drug is manufactured in these countries in clandestine laboratories with a number of different chemicals. Once processed, it is trafficked through South and Central…