Did Coca Cola ever contain traces of cocaine? Does is still contain very small traces of cocaine?
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Yes it contained cocaine . Coca Cola gets its name from the two medicines that was in it: coca leaves and kola nuts. Mind soda pops were medicines not tasty beverages, reformulation of many of them took place in the early to mid 20th century to make them into "safe" non-drug drinks. However we can argue that the sugar and caffeine in many of them could be called drugs.
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It did contain cocaine but not anymore. Kola nuts (which is what are used, not leaves) don't contain any cocaine btw, which only occurs naturally in the Coca plant and of that plant, only seventeen species have enough cocaine to be viable as a source for the drug. Kola contains caffeine, theobromine, tannins, phenolics, kolatin, and kolanin, and is still used in Coca Cola. See here: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/GovPubs/cocccp.htm http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp
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The beverage was named Coca-Cola because, originally, the stimulant mixed in the beverage was coca leaves from South America, which the drug cocaine is derived from. In addition, the drink was flavored using kola nuts, also acting as the beverage's source of caffeine.[14] Pemberton called for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup, a significant dose, whereas, in 1891, Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Coca-Cola did once contain an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass, but in 1903 it was removed.[15] After 1904, Coca-Cola started using, instead of fresh leaves, "spent" leaves - the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with cocaine trace levels left over at a molecular level.[16][17] To this day, Coca-Cola uses as an ingredient a non-narcotic coca leaf extract prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey.[18][19] In the United States, Stepan Company is the only manufacturing plant authorized by the Federal Government to import and process the coca plant (Wikipedia)
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yes it did and no it doesn't, my grandfather used to run the one out here in san antonio
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heres a non googled answer for ya. i've heard my whole life that coca cola used to contain cocaine when it was first made. i wish i had some today as i believe it would make for one hell of an energy drink. do you have any idea how much it would be worth if you stockpiled coca cola from when they were doing this? i'd be bloody rich i bet.
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