did you know that coca-cola used to contain cocaine

[alice]

im not making this ♥♥♥♥ up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Use_of_stimulants_in_formula

[vkobe]

Oprindeligt skrevet af GunsForBucks:

Old news is old.
It wasn't long ago, less than 100 years, that you could mail order things like opium and peyote from the UK to the USA
The natural stuff has been around forever. As long as humans be human.

yup at this time santa claus need coke to stay awake and motivated

you need coke to run in hypersonic mode to distributated gifts to children

[yankees992007]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Fuki (she/they):

Oprindeligt skrevet af Disgruntled Cuttlefish:

Cocaine used to be very publicly, openly accepted. There wasn't always a moronic war on drugs.

But, you know, cops need their funding, and that's a good way to distract away from more important crimes also. When you need so many narco cops because it's more of a legal issue than a medical one, otherwise you could be free to teach them how to solve murders rapes etc. and you wouldn't so many in the first place. But we all know mass incarceration is a big business, free prison labor (what's the definition of that again?) is great for business.

Drugs were misused by the public for things they were not made for. Nixon administration publicly admitted that the war on drugs were a subtle way to encourage systematic racism.

I don't think so. It more of education issue. Crack/cocaine destroyed lives of everyone. A drug doesn't discriminate. What had happened is that we didn't put serious dent against known drug cartels is the reason for the lost the war against drugs. Foreign policy failures is also icing on the cake.

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

I knew that about 30 years ago.

[Top Cat]

Oprindeligt skrevet af alice:

did you know that coca-cola used to contain cocaine

So did Cocaine.

[vkobe]

Oprindeligt skrevet af yankees992007:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Fuki (she/they):

Drugs were misused by the public for things they were not made for. Nixon administration publicly admitted that the war on drugs were a subtle way to encourage systematic racism.

I don't think so. It more of education issue. Crack/cocaine destroyed lives of everyone. A drug doesn't discriminate. What had happened is that we didn't put serious dent against known drug cartels is the reason for the lost the war against drugs. Foreign policy failures is also icing on the cake.

crack is chemical mixing cocaine+other dangerous chemical product like bleach

cocaine is purify form of coca leaf

so i would prefer coca leaf been legal and keep cocaine and crack illegal

people can consume softer version of drug, but harder version stay illegal and i am not against for capital punishment against drug dealer

[♥Peachboy♥]

https://youtu.be/kBMlFNx5EVI

[Quillithe]

Nobody mentioning the loophole where coca leaves can still be imported JUST for coca cola and they basically legally manufacture cocaine in the process of decocainizing the leaves

[permanent name]

naw you're making this up.

[Disgruntled Cuttlefish]

The war on drugs is a war on personal freedom. US govt is responsible for massive amount of death and misery because of its mass incarceration war on drugs campaign.

The war on drugs isn't a failure because of a failure to put some "dents" here and there. No.

And also remember when US govt was helping smuggle it in because of their thugs on the CIA payroll? I wonder if similar interactions like that happened many other times that the public isn't aware of.

Oprindeligt skrevet af yankees992007:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Fuki (she/they):

Drugs were misused by the public for things they were not made for. Nixon administration publicly admitted that the war on drugs were a subtle way to encourage systematic racism.

I don't think so. It more of education issue. Crack/cocaine destroyed lives of everyone. A drug doesn't discriminate. What had happened is that we didn't put serious dent against known drug cartels is the reason for the lost the war against drugs. Foreign policy failures is also icing on the cake.

No, it's the heavy handed, brutal approach and also keeping it more of a legal issue instead of a medical one. Criminalizing it all is the problem.

Go ahead and put a "dent" in a cartel and watch more pop up and take advantage of the black market and demand the country's policies have created.

Also, not really, and I know people who are successful and have decent jobs, including better paying govt jobs ironically enough etc, who use substances like that. Not entirely.

[smokerob79]

and at the time it was made you could order whole heroin kits from the sears catalog......complete with needles and a leather case.....

[permanent name]

you guys need to stop spreading misinformation in here.

[Eskimofo]

shut up, Meg.

[76561199708035568]

Cocaine is part of the caine family which includes novocaine the medicine dentists use to numb your mouth before they do your dental work. Since both are local anesthetic which means they numb they used to use cocaine before novocaine.

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Oprindeligt skrevet af Top Cat:

Oprindeligt skrevet af alice:

did you know that coca-cola used to contain cocaine

So did Cocaine.

i feel sorry for kids today. i mean, don't go down that road, but if you do it'd be nice if it wasn't full of landmines.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Coca leaves are pretty chill.