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Study shows leaf shape and size can't reliably distinguish wild coca plants from those grown to make cocaine
Coca belongs to the diverse genus Erythroxylum, which comprises over ... these two species—plants grown specifically under human cultivation and adapted to a human environment—were thought ...
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Coca — used to make cocaine — discovered in brains of 17th-century bodies in Italy
Accounting for $1.5 billion in 2020, the cocaine drug market is the second largest illegal drug market in the world. It comes from Erythroxylum coca, a plant native to South America that local ...