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Power Leaves Holdings has partnered with Colombian manufacturer Tropical Crop SAS to scale decocainized coca extract output to 360,000 liters annualized by the end of 2026.

Colombia announced a limited test of aerial coca spraying in Putumayo using glufosinate-ammonium, its first since 2015. A local court suspended the plan a day later.

Ethnobotanist Chris Kilham toured Peru’s state coca company ENACO and says its decocainized coca leaf extract could become a supplement ingredient — if shipping carriers can be persuaded to move it.

A plain-language reference on what coca tea is: the two cultivated species, four varieties, cocaine content by variety, traditional use, and where published evidence disagrees.

The WHO Expert Committee’s 2025 critical review of coca leaf tests the six benefits commonly claimed for coca tea, and shows how much of the evidence is traditional, preclinical, or missing entirely.

Magdalena Biosciences says a coca leaf extract prevented weight gain in mice on a high-fat diet without cutting food intake, in a 20-day study at the University of Calgary.

Colombian chefs are cooking with coca flour in tamales, pastries and pasta, including a 2024 Reto Coca event backed by the country’s Ministry of Justice with 14 participating chefs.

A friar at Florence’s San Marco convent has found a 19th-century flyer for a coca leaf and kola nut wine tonic, reviving questions about Coca-Cola’s ancestry.

Bolivia readmitted the DEA in February 2026 after nearly eighteen years, and officials now link the country’s blockades to trafficking money — without presenting public evidence.