did you know that the original recipe for Coca-Cola contained cocaine?
 

The drink was invented in 1885 by John Pemberton, a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia, who made the original formula in his backyard. Pemberton’s recipe contained cocaine in the form of an extract of the coca leaf, which inspired the “Coca” part of the beverage’s name. The “Cola” comes from the kola nut (which contains caffeine, another stimulant).

When Coca-Cola was invented, cocaine was legal and a common ingredient in medicines.

After 1904, instead of using fresh leaves, Coca-Cola started using "spent" leaves – the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with trace levels of cocaine.Since then (by 1929), Coca-Cola has used a cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Today, that extract is prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey, the only manufacturing plant authorized by the federal government to import and process coca leaves, which it obtains from Peru and Bolivia. Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it then sells to Mallinckrodt, the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use.

Why are you posting this?
You aren't anymore a teenager wondering about how interesting are popular mass produced industrial products.

Did you know that Ronald is the mascot from McDonald's and that french fries ?

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In other news, Heroin was sold over the counter as a cough medicine...

The question should be: Did anybody not know this already?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK493184/


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That's where the infamous sexually erotic scene in 'Trainspotting' comes from :thumbsup

Yes I knew this so, being "old school", I always throw in a rock of crack with my Coke.
W-w-works g-great.

we love coke before but now we don't drink soda for healthy living

In Coca-Cola, they replaced cocaine with sugar and now I'm fat and I don't dream anymore. :(

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The laws were different back then and social attitudes about drugs were vastly different

Sigmund Freud used coke

Karl Marx's famous quote of "religion is the opiate of the masses" should be understood in the context that opium was seen as a comforting and healing MEDICINE in the early 1800s.

Even Hitler was hopped up on METH which was originally intended for weight loss

What a NEWS :-D....LOL

I love this movie!! I saw it for first time when I was 13 old years.
This is my #1 european movie.

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There used to be all kinds of insane products... even radioactive ones.
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An actual large amount of the German army was on drugs similar to meth. It's how they were able to perform Blitzkriegs. Soldiers and tank operators were blitzed out of their minds on meth and were operating non-stop for days at a time.

There are some really interesting documentaries on how Nazis used drugs effectively during the war. Notably, a drugged-out soldier wasn't as reluctant to shoot people or commit mass murder compared to a sober soldier.

Gun sights use tritium today. Glows in the dark.

https://gunsweek.com/sites/default/f...?itok=x47pBdyQ

They should have left it in, I'd probably drink more. Lots more.

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Makes a cool ass collection :thumbsup

This is common knowledge, everyone knows.

Well, except you. :1orglaugh

"Pervitin"

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Family heirlooms?

Everyone knows this. Except for you.

It gets better. Bayer used to sell heroin as a cough syrup.