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5 Mar 2013 22:30

For decades, Coca-Cola has worked to correct the misimpression that its signature beverage, Coke, used to contain cocaine. Coke did once contain trace amounts of the drug, but even those were removed completely from the formulation by 1929, according to Snopes. As late as 1988, Coca-Cola had to deny to The New York Times that Coke contained any cocaine. These old ads never mentioned cocaine; the relief they were referring to probably came from the coca leaf, which has a euphoric effect. Nonethel...
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