Cocaine is extracted from the leaves of coca plant (Erythroxylum coca), a bush native to South America.When Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci arrived in what is now Venezuela in 1499, he noticed ...

Officers found a bag containing 9.62g (0.05lbs) of cocaine hidden inside a tea bag, when they raided a property in Dalegarth Avenue, Whitehaven, on 6 July last year.