Study shows leaf shape and size can't reliably distinguish wild coca plants from those grown to make cocaine

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Jul 10, 2024, 12:10 am1.2k ptsInterestingTop
A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution indicates that while the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has collected annual data on areas of coca cultivation in South America for decades to monitor the establishment of illegal plantations and associated deforestation, scientists can't reliably…

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