Cocaine (from French: cocaïne, from Spanish: coca, ultimately from Quechua: kúka)[14] is an addictive stimulant drug obtained from the leaves of two Coca species native to South America, Erythroxylum coca and Erythroxylum novogranatense.[15][16] After extraction from coca leaves and further processing into cocaine hydrochloride (powdered cocaine), the drug may be snorted, heated until sublimated and then inhaled, or dissolved and injected into a vein.