How much cocaine was in Coca Cola before the Harrison Act?!
How much cocaine was in Coca Cola before the Harrison Act?
Answers:
"Coca-Cola did once contain an estimated 9 milligrams of cocaine per glass but after 1903 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. However, as cocaine is one of numerous alkaloids present in the coca leaf, it was nevertheless present in the drink. Today, the flavoring is still done with kola nuts and the "spent" coca leaf."
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/coca-cola#e...
A little
the right answer is 0.1% not much.i heardit on the news over3 years a go.
about 70% i think but im not 100% sure
enough to make it VERY popular! Snoopes has an entire section on coke lore.
www.snopes.com
I dont know the exact amount but I read on a cite called Spores that in the 1800s when coka cola was invented there was cocoa beans used but at a very very small amount