Supercoca - myth or reality?

Wired has a long and interesting article on the new supercoca plant that has been a matter of debate among drug policy reformers and prohibitionists alike. There's been a lot of speculation that the cocaine producers brought in a chemist who developed a new prolific and super-potent strain of coca that is also resistant to the herbicide Round-up that is being dumped by the thousands of gallons on the Amazon rain basin to eradicate the plants.

Joshua Davis went to Colombia to see for himself and makes a good case for the premise that these plants do actually exist, but are a result of simple natural selection and a particularly effective cloning program among the cocaleros. Well worth reading in full.