1.   Cocaine is made from the coca plant.

2.   Prices for coca paste, used to make cocaine, have fallen sharply in Colombia and Peru in response to reduced drug shipments from Colombia, police said.

3.   Police have been destroying the plants to try to stop the drug trade in Colombia, as coca plants are used to make cocaine.

4.   The military believes the rebels are involved in the drug trade and are fighting to protect their prized crops, used to make cocaine.

5.   The neglected coffee industry has also benefited from weak prices for coca leaf, which is used to make cocaine.

6.   The U.S. government has put heavy pressure on Colombia to destroy the coca plants, which are used to make the cocaine sold on U.S. streets.

7.   When her son went outside to play, she would make crack cocaine on the kitchen stove in her Billerica home.

8.   Peru is a major producer of the coca leaf used to make cocaine.

9.   Rebels are often paid by drug traffickers to guard crops such as coca, which is used to make cocaine.

10.   A local merchant was murdered Saturday night in the town where the local economy is driven partly by cultivation of coca, the plant used to make cocaine.