For instance coca cola was made with actual coca (the plant cocaine alkaloids are derived from) and sold as a cure for headaches.
Coca tea is still in use in parts of South America. I’ve been told it isn’t really comparable to cocaine. Wikipedia is under the impression that there’s about 6x as much cocaine in a cup of coca tea as a line.
I’ve never had coca tea, but I can buy that doing cocaine is a little like what snorting 600mg of pure caffeine would be like for someone with no prior exposure to caffeine. (I don’t recommend either at all.)
How much cocaine was in the original Coca-Cola recipe? Allegedly, the original recipe had 3 drams coca extract to 2.5 gallons of water, whatever that means.
There is still coca extract used in Coca-Cola, but the psychoactive ingredient in the coca leaf is removed from the extract. (Cocaine still sees legitimate medical use as a local anesthetic, by the way.)
Coca tea is still in use in parts of South America. I’ve been told it isn’t really comparable to cocaine. Wikipedia is under the impression that there’s about 6x as much cocaine in a cup of coca tea as a line.
I’ve never had coca tea, but I can buy that doing cocaine is a little like what snorting 600mg of pure caffeine would be like for someone with no prior exposure to caffeine. (I don’t recommend either at all.)
How much cocaine was in the original Coca-Cola recipe? Allegedly, the original recipe had 3 drams coca extract to 2.5 gallons of water, whatever that means.
There is still coca extract used in Coca-Cola, but the psychoactive ingredient in the coca leaf is removed from the extract. (Cocaine still sees legitimate medical use as a local anesthetic, by the way.)