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To: MJ who wrote (478810)	3/27/2012 2:10:37 AM
From: average joe	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793840

"Pemberton called for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup, a significant dose; in 1891, Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Coca-Cola once contained an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass. In 1903 it was removed. After 1904, instead of using fresh leaves, Coca-Cola started using "spent" leaves — the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with trace levels of cocaine. Coca-Cola now uses a cocaine-free coca leaf extract prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey. In the United States, the Stepan Company is the only manufacturing plant authorized by the Federal Government to import and process the coca plant, which it obtains mainly from Peru and, to a lesser extent, Bolivia. Besides producing the coca flavoring agent for Coca-Cola, the Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it sells to Mallinckrodt, a St. Louis, Missouri pharmaceutical manufacturer that is the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use." en.wikipedia.org

To: MJ who wrote (478810)	3/27/2012 3:07:32 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 793840

>> I came home and got on the phone and called the corporate office----not the 800 number but the corporate. This is what I was told --------that the idea that coca cola had cocaine in it was a rumor that was started in the early days of coca-cola but was never true. It most certainly WAS true. At one point it contained small quantities of cocaine merely to protect the brand. Early in its existence Coke was marketed as a medicine, and many of those "patent medicines" of the day contained cocaine.