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I think everyone wants to live in a world where it is socially acceptable to pop benzos and do cocaine (although I’m pretty sure it was speed back then, but I’d still take it).
Coca-Cola literally used to contain cocaine. It started life as a patent medicine made from coca leaf and kola nut, and expanded from there. By the 1950s they at least on paper were already cocaine free - they switched to “spent” leaves in 1904 (leaves that already had cocaine extracted and so only had what was left due to inefficiencies in the process) and later switched to extract made by a third party that was invested in being thorough in removing the cocaine since they were selling that for medical use as well so any cocaine in the extract sold to Coca-Cola was a loss in their higher-dollar product.
Thanks for the mansplaination! 😉
Wasn’t mansplaining, but the word you were trying to spell is mansplanation
It absolutely was. It was tangential to my comment. Information I already had (which you could glean from my comment). And completely unnecessary.
Thanks for calling out the typo!
So were you saying people called cocaine “speed” back then?
No, I think they did speed, not coke in the 50s. In the form of diet pills
Hmmm… in the US, I think cocaine cola was illegal in the 50s, but you could get amphetamines pretty easily…
It gets worse. Coca-cola removed the coke because of racism.
oh it gets even worse than that. the coca leaves are shipped to Jersey so the cocaine can be removed before use in the drink! source.
That’s not worse.
hmmm… historically, coca leaves were holy to the indigenous people of the andes and still play an important cultural role. ok, that’s all I’m gonna argue.
