Cocaine was the main ingredient of Coca-Cola until 1914 and the Harrison Narcotics Act, signed by President Woodrow Wilson on this day in history

[rupol2000]

Everyone wants to think that cocaine was an ingredient because that is cool.


Yet, the fact is, cocaine did not exist when coke was invented. Cocaine would not be invented for another 13 years.

Not that words and meanings matter when applied to chemicals and such.

Apparently, not an isolated alkaloid was added there, but in general, purified cocaine was obtained by Albert Niemann in the middle of the 19 century, and was isolated even earlier

Coca had been used by the Indians for several thousand years, they just chewed it

 

[elektra]

Apparently, not an isolated alkaloid was added there, but in general, purified cocaine was obtained by Albert Niemann in the middle of the 19 century, and was isolated even earlier

Coca had been used by the Indians for several thousand years, they just chewed it

Purified coca? Cocaine was not synthesized until 13 years after coca cola hit the market. That is fact.

 

[rupol2000]

Purified coca?

Pure cocaine

 

[rupol2000]

That is fact.

no, it's your fantasies

 

[elektra]

no, it's your fantasies

fact is, it was coca leaves, cocaine, as an extract or as we know it, yes a fantasy of yours, funny how you project

 

[DudleySmith]

There have been cases of alcoholics selling their children and renting them out to perverts for a single dose of alcohol that costs a few cents.
In the USSR, during the Prohibition era, these pigs drank denatured alcohol and perfumes
I'm not kidding

There was a prohibition era in the Soviet Union?

 

[rupol2000]

There was a prohibition era in the Soviet Union?

Yes, in 1958 and 1985 there were very tough anti-alcohol campaigns, this coincided with the relatively right-wing regimes of Khrushchev and Gorbachev under Eisenhower and Reagan.