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  • Altima NEO
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    191 year ago

    Yeah but wasn’t the coke of old meant to be a medicine or tonic of some sort?

    • @scorpionix@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Basically all illegal drugs started as legal drugs aka medicine (Opium, Morphine, Heroin, etc). The distinction is a relatively recent development. Even today a drug store is a reputable business. A drug den not so much.

    • z3rOR0ne
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      91 year ago

      Yeah Coca Cola was originally a “nerve tonic”. Coca leaves/extract were a regular ingredient of medicines, tonics, and even toothpaste.

          • Malgas
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            21 year ago

            It’s actually not quite an exception, because cocaine is a Schedule II drug (can be prescribed as a vasoconstrictor or topical anesthetic) and the Maywood plant is the only facility licensed to produce pharmaceutical grade cocaine in the US.

            So the coca leaf extract they sell to Coca-Cola is technically a byproduct.