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Colombia tells UK Duchess that sourcing coca plants for Poison Garden impossible

By The City Paper Staff - March 18, 2024

The Colombian Embassy to the UK refutes Duchess of Northumberland’s alleged request for coca plants, highlighting legal barriers and emphasizing coca leaf distinction from cocaine.

A skewed homage to Terence McKenna in the time of pandemia

By Jimmy Weiskopf - May 20, 2020

From time among shamans in Colombias’ Amazon, the enigmatic ethnobotanist Terence McKenna unveiled societal truths and prophetic in our age of coronavirus.

The rise and fall of Colombia’s intelligence plants

By Jimmy Weiskopf - June 18, 2019

Considered a sacred plant, the ground powder of the coca leaf, consumed as mambe, has found a mainstream audience among urbanites and unwary tourists.

Plant-based: The green future of food in Bogotá

By María Claudia Peña - April 11, 2018

A plant-based lifestyle is catching on in Bogota? after the celebrated chef Matthew Kenny launched his first restaurant in the city called Makeout.