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The name Coca Cola involves a pun on the word cocaine. Is it true that Coca Cola actually contained cocaine originally?<\/p>\n
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Cocaine is made from coca leaves. The popular soft drink Coca-Cola dates back to a time when cocaine was legal as a medical drug.
The formula for Coca-Cola was originally concocted in 1886 by John Styth Pemberton. The drink was marketed for its medicinal properties against headaches, neuralgia, hysteria and melancholy. The formula consisted, among other ingredients, of three parts coca leaves and one part cola nut.<\/p>\n
Coca-Cola was only one among many medicinal concoctions that contained cocaine. How much cocaine was in Coca Cola at the time is not known and is downplayed as \"void\".
In the 90s of the 19th century, the tide began to turn. Cocaine was blamed as the cause of rising crime and therefore became an illegal drug. For Coca Cola, this meant that coca leaves continued to be used, but without the active ingredient from which cocaine is made. However, in order to live up to the name \"Coca Cola\", the coca leaves had to be preserved as an ingredient.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Instead of selling the drink as a miracle cure for aches and pains, Coca-Cola was now promoted as a refreshing drink.<\/p>\n
What happens to the cocaine?<\/strong><\/p>\n The actually more interesting aspect regarding Coca Cola is the fact that the Coca Cola company is the only company that has a special permit in the USA that allows it to import coca leaves. The active ingredient cocaine is extracted from the coca leaves so that they can be used for the drink. But what happens to the cocaine that is extracted? After all, we are talking about more than 3000 kilograms of pure cocaine per year. The name Coca Cola involves a pun on the word cocaine. Is it true that Coca Cola actually contained cocaine originally?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_id":["4617"],"_fgj2wp_old_id":["3418"],"rank_math_analytic_object_id":["841"],"rank_math_focus_keyword":["was ist dran an der kokain-cola"],"rank_math_internal_links_processed":["1"],"_trp_automatically_translated_slug_en_GB":["what-is-this-about-cocaine-cola"]},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gesellschaft","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The cocaine is sold, still completely legally, to the company Mallinckrodt Incorporated, which also obtains opium from India and THC from legally cultivated marijuana plants in the USA.
According to Mallinckrodt Inc., the drugs are used for medical purposes, and three tonnes of cocaine truly seems a lot for \"medical purposes\".<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"