COCA-COLA uses 225 TONS of COCO LEAVES for COKE!

Of course, Coca Cola is it!

they take out the cocaine fraction, but there are other addictive compounds in the coca leaf

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coke ----CAIN

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Despite his claims of a lack of interest, a bit more than a year ago, two new brands of soft drinks appeared in Peru: Vortex Coca Energy Drink and K-Drink. Produced by Peruvian companies, sold and marketed at unprecedented levels, the drinks are both based on coca. All completely legal. Until May 2004, when the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) appeared on the scene and said that the drinks contain alkaloids. It wasn’t very clear which (coca has sixteen different alkaloids), but as this institution is in charge of enforcing the restrictions from the 1961 Vienna Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, Ericsson and DEVIDA began to worry.
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so there are 16 alkaloids in coca leaf...coca-cola supposedly cleans them from the coca first, but then why bother to include coca leaves in its formula

If you spherize the leaves it actually comes out as more like 1,000 tons. You can verify that with a zig-zag filter. Makes sense.

""COCA-COLA uses 225 TONS of COCO LEAVES for COKE!""



and this is bad ?

yeah it is okay for coca cola to buy and grow coca plants, just not you

Doesn't the 'pop' sold in Europe still have to 'good stuff' in it?
Some of the countries that can 'grow the plants' now market their own brand of 'pop'.

I would have to 'try and re-find the article', but doesn't an American Embassy in one of those countries serve 'Bolivian tea' quite freely to anybody 'in that Embassy' as a remedy for 'altitude sickness'. How fucking two-faced is that.
Under free-trade shouldn't I be allowed to get some 'Bolivian tea' if I happen to live above a certain altitude? (I'm in Canada BTW) It would be sooo cool to have the RCMP deliver it to my door.LOL

When the company 'cleans the leaves' who gets to keep the 'stuff' that is washed out?

My question is, what do they do with the cocaine?

My understanding is that Coca Cola is the biggest producer of pharmeceutical cocaine used as an anesthetic?

That came from Sherman Skolnick . . .

You're kidding. There's an international board that dictates to countries how to regulate their substances?

Come to think of it I was in the emergency room one time because I got hit right in the iris and the Doc was squirting something in my eye so it would stay still so he could look at it. After the 3rd or 4th squirt he said "Do you know how expensive this stuff is?" No problem with the eye but I felt really well the rest of the night. LOL He even offered me the option of staying overnight, in hindsight I should have taken him up on that offer, I might have gotten more of thatstuff.

WIO, could you scan a photo of a coca leaf and tell us how many reptiles are onboard the motherships hiding in the leaves???? Thanks!!!!!!

what's the point?

Umm, what IS the point exactly? What do these.. cocoa leaves actually do to you if you drink Coke? If it happens to be true, I'm dumping Pepsi and switching sides!! ^_^

If you want a peek at how the leaves affect you, find a copy of the movie "Devil's Island" with Steve McQueen and once he escapes and makes it to the mainland he meets a 'native'. They are running over hill and dale and Steve is gasping for air. The person he is with is not winded in the least, he takes a few leaves from a pouch and offers them to Steve (who doesn't take them until that person has some), the next few scenes had them both running without getting tired.

BTW the pop in the US will NOT do the above for you.