Cocaine removed from Coca Cola?!
Answers: does anyone know the reason(s) for the removal of cocaine from Coca cola or any good sources?
It was not stopped in the 60's but infact in 1903 when it was realised cocaine was harmful as well as highly addictive. Instead coca-cola started using the "spent" coca leaves left over after the cocaine making process had already occured. These days there are still coca leaves in coca-cola although these are from a non-narcotic coca leaf specially grown in New-Jersey!
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It was outlawed.
Yeah, to make me switch to Pepsi
it bacame illegal in the 60's hello !along with everything else !
People were becoming addicted to Coca Cola. And not to mention cocaine is illegal.
I don't really know any sources - but once it was found that cocaine was addictive...that's why it was taken out of the drink.
it was a dam shame , it sure was cheeper
cocaine got outlawed and then coca cola went to a diffrent way to dervive flavor from the cococa plant. Besides Pepsi is drug free
because cocaine was outlawed back in the day so they had to stop with it
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. 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. 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. 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. In the United States, Stepan Company is the only manufacturing plant authorized by the Federal Government to import and process the coca plant.
"After the turn of the century, when federal and state authorities began writing regulations to ban the sale of coca products because of their supposed contamination with the drug cocaine, Coca-Cola lawyers argued strenuously that their syrup contained only a minuscule flavor extract of the coca leaf."
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orginally used as a cure-all in medicines, the same as heroin. the gov't realized the mass addictions so, they pass a bill to outlaw using these drugs....
that's the best site i know. Tells you the truth about what happened to the Cocaine part of Cola which is now called coca-cola
Originally one gallon of coca-cola contained five ounces of cocaine, which was too high, so they then limited it to 9 milligrams per glass and in 1903 it was completely removed.
At one point, cocaine wasn't considered a "bad" drug, yet considered a cure for many illnesses. Once the government realized it was addictive and bad, they had to regulate it.
it was outlawed in the us.
i think they should put it back in an you have to be like 18 or 21 to buy it . an still make normal coke cola . just a thought
check out this website. It will tell you all about it.
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.a...
Because cocaine was made illegal, and so they had to remove it from their products to avoid a law suit!
Cocaine became illegal!
Cocaine per-SE was Never in coke , there was a Coca plant derivative used that contained the root alkaloid Ecgonine used to make cocaine. The amount contained in coke between 1902 and 1929(when all traces were removed) was approx six -hundredths ounce per 25 million gallons of coke, Read (NO BUZZ) From 1885-1891 there was BUZZ
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