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**Local Yokel** lop guest User ID: 117558 09-01-2012 06:53 PM

I was reading an article on the history of Coca Cola. It is a real drama in the early years and will probably be made into a movie someday when the dirty story becomes more available.

Over 1,095,000,000 cans/bottles of Coke are sold worldwide daily.

Coca Cola flavoring syrup still uses coca leaf extract albeit a "decocainized" version prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, NJ. This factory accepts large shipments of legally grown and imported coca leaf and processes it to produce the flavoring used in all that soda. The original recipe of inventor John Pemberton calls for 9mg of cocaine per dose of 8oz back in the 1880's.

At todays sales numbers of 12oz units, that would be around 182,500 kilograms of cocaine HCL separated annually at that one plant in New Jersey. This is highly conservative because I am not factoring in fountain drinks, just bottled & canned.

My question is: What the hell happens to the ENORMOUS amount of cocaine separated from the extract?

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**Disturbed nli** Not the real one! User ID: 1 09-01-2012 06:59 PM

Local Yokel Wrote:

My question is: What the hell happens to the ENORMOUS amount of cocaine separated from the extract?

**monkeydog**

Disturbed nli Wrote:

Local Yokel Wrote:
My question is: What the hell happens to the ENORMOUS amount of cocaine separated from the extract?

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**DirtyAnnie**

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**Local Yokel** lop guest User ID: 117558 09-01-2012 07:09 PM

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**Brunhilda**

There are many current medical uses for cocaine.
Cocaine is used for topical anesthesia and vasoconstriction for surgery of the nose, throat, and oral cavity. Cocaine provides rapid and profound anesthesia in conjunction with vasoconstriction and decongestion of swollen mucosa.

**absurdious** · **absurdious** INFP User ID: 27152 09-01-2012 07:21 PM **Posts: 15,902**

Disturbed nli Wrote:

Local Yokel Wrote:
My question is: What the hell happens to the ENORMOUS amount of cocaine separated from the extract?

~~Aunt Flo~~ · **~~Aunt Flo~~** Banned User ID: 107186 09-01-2012 07:28 PM **Posts: 2,284**

It's sold to big pharma. Johnson & Johnson and Merck have a HUGE presence in north Jersey along with a whole host of others:

http://www.thelabrat.com/jobs/companies/...rsey.shtml

**The Evil AC** I am not a number!!! User ID: 666 09-01-2012 07:31 PM

Local Yokel Wrote:

I was reading an article on the history of Coca Cola. It is a real drama in the early years and will probably be made into a movie someday when the dirty story becomes more available.

Over 1,095,000,000 cans/bottles of Coke are sold worldwide daily.

Coca Cola flavoring syrup still uses coca leaf extract albeit a "decocainized" version prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, NJ. This factory accepts large shipments of legally grown and imported coca leaf and processes it to produce the flavoring used in all that soda. The original recipe of inventor John Pemberton calls for 9mg of cocaine per dose of 8oz back in the 1880's.

At todays sales numbers of 12oz units, that would be around 182,500 kilograms of cocaine HCL separated annually at that one plant in New Jersey. This is highly conservative because I am not factoring in fountain drinks, just bottled & canned.

My question is: What the hell happens to the ENORMOUS amount of cocaine separated from the extract?

link to image: http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t187/...a-cola.jpg

TIGER BLOOD

**SimmerSam**

Probably a lot is sold to big pharma and used to produce novacaine and/or pharmaceutical cocaine, though that is very rarely used today I believe.