Proclaimed by the General Assembly in March 2024, the observance honours victims of organised crime – including law ...

In 2023, the report put the country’s cocaine production potential at a historic high. Agricultural and technological advancements have allowed farmers to increase the yield of each coca plant.

SEE ALSO: InSight Crime’s 2023 Cocaine Seizure Round-Up Noboa said security forces ... “We identified some crops, but they were very small — marijuana, poppy, and very little coca plant,” a former ...

“By pulling together – governments in the global North and South, banks and businesses, civil society and communities, young and old – we can push back against organized crime, everywhere, for safety ...

Cocaine is a potent stimulant drug derived from the coca plant, native to South America. Known for its euphoric effects, cocaine has been a significant public health issue worldwide due to its ...

We have the poppy plant; we have the coca plant ... making poppy into heroin, making coca leaves into cocaine, and making the Kratom, concentrating the Kratom, into Mitragynine and then putting ...

He initially raised cows, then planted coca, the shrub from which cocaine is extracted, before uprooting his coca plants and buying more cows. "Basically, I did what everyone else did," summed up ...

A lethal dose of Kratom discovered during a toxicology report prompted the St. Tammany Parish coroner to speak out about its ...

Marking the inaugural International Day for the Prevention of and Fight against All Forms of Transnational Organised Crime on Friday, the UN Office on ...

While music played in Bogotá’s streets and a sense of victory filled the air after a long protest, Ana Graciela received a ...

You may recognize them as the primary ingredient of cocaine. The whole leaves are ... a campaign to eradicate the cultivation of coca plants in South America decades ago as part of the War on ...