I herd that coca cola used to contain cocain...if you dont bilive me check it out?

Question

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp

Answer 1

Yes, originally coca-cola contained cocaine.  That is how it got it's name: coca is the plant cocaine is derived from, cola for the soda part.

Answer 2

Yes, Wade Davis goes into this in his book "One River".  According to him Coca Cola is still passed through the leaves of the coca plants shipped to the US to make legal cocaine.  

Once the cocaine is extracted, the leaves are then sold to the Coca Cola company which passes it's poison through the leaves.  Sounds like nonsense, but that's what he said.

Answer 3

old news.

Answer 4

so what's the question?

Answer 5

There are so many other reasons not to drink Coke or any other soda. The empty calories. The effects on your teeth and kidneys. The fact that its single handedly responsible for the obesity in the US. Believe it or not, people didn't drink soda the way they do now until the 70's when big advertising did their voodoo.

Answer 6

Yes, it *used* to contain cocaine, but that was long before the current drug laws went into effect.

Trust me...don't snort coke!  Those bubbles are really nasty to the sinuses...ROFL!