In the United States, a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey is a registered importer of coca leaf. The company manufactures pure cocaine for medical use and also produces a cocaine-free extract of the coca leaf, which is used as a flavoring ingredient in Coca-Cola.

Mar 3, 2022 · Cocaine hydrochloride (cocaine) is an illicit drug derived from the leaves of the coca plants of South America. The leaves are processed with various harmful chemicals into a white powder, known as cocaine. Cocaine powder is packaged in kilogram bricks before it is trafficked throughout the world.

Nov 3, 2024 · Also known by street names such as coke, blow, or snow, cocaine is derived from the leaves of the coca plant, which are processed with a variety of different chemicals to create powdered cocaine.1.

Jan 11, 2025 · Coca, (Erythroxylum coca), tropical shrub, of the family Erythroxylaceae, the leaves of which are the source of the drug cocaine. The plant, cultivated in Africa, northern South America, Southeast Asia, and Taiwan, grows about 2.4 metres (8 feet) tall.

May 31, 2017 · Cocaine is a stimulant drug that’s made from the leaves of the South American coca plant. For thousands of years, indigenous people in the Amazon Rainforest and Andes Mountains have chewed...

The formation of cocaine involves cocaine synthase (EcCS) acylation of methylecgonine with benzoyl CoA. The completion of the cocaine pathway triggered experiments to see whether hybrid TAs could be produced by coexpressing selected genes from the Solanaceae and Erythroxylaceae in a yeast background.

Jun 6, 2012 · Researchers have just discovered a key reaction in cocaine formation in the coca plant from South America, and identified the responsible enzyme. This enzyme was shown to belong to the...

Coca is an indigenous plant of South America with numerous alkaloid components, the most well-known one of which is the psychoactive component, cocaine. Its leaves have been a staple in the Andean lifestyle for thousands of years.

There a 260 plants in the coca family that contain cocaine, but only four of them have usable amounts of the drug. Coca plants resemble blackthorn bushes. They are usually about chest high although they grow to a height of three meters (10 feet).

Aug 1, 2024 · Coca is a tropical shrub in the family Erythroxylaceae, the leaves of which have been used in traditional medicine for centuries across the Andean region, but it is known globally as the source of...