Drugs, Habits and Social Policy: Volume 25 Issue 2

Guest editorial: A future with coca: embedding indigenous Andean knowledge on the medical, spiritual and recreational opportunities of the coca leaf in contemporary regulatory space

Janneke Nijmeijer, Klein Axel, Gaby Kozar, Jessica Brenda Perez

“Coca says that the hill fell out of jealousy”: testimonies about a threatened practice and episteme in Ancash, Peru

Carlo Brescia Seminario

This study aims to promote the preservation of endangered traditional knowledge and practices in the Andes of Peru by documenting, publishing and disseminating them.

A decade of providing legal defence support for coca leaf cases in Spain

Constanza Sánchez Avilés, José Carlos Bouso

In the past decade, there has been an increase in the number of people facing criminal proceedings related to the traditional use of the coca leaf in Spain. The profile of the…

Coca in history and the future

Baldomero Cáceres Santa María

This study aims to question the psychiatric framework currently adopted by governments toward the traditional plants of great cultures, stigmatized by the paradigm of the…

Amigos de la Hoja de Coca: history of a pioneering coca leaf fair-trade

Farid Ghehiouèche, Kenzi Riboulet-Zemouli

The leaves of the Erythroxylum “coca” plant are a well-known food, beverage, and nutraceutical in their native Andean region. A decade ago, the European non-profit “Amigos de la…

Towards the fair regulation of all coca leaf derivatives in Colombia

Zara Snapp, Julián Quintero

The purpose of this study is to envision the possible path to regulation of the coca leaf and its derivatives. There are a range of possible coca derivatives that could be…