Comment by Eisenstein

> An huge corporation using the raw material of cocaine to produce the most popular soda in the world would be the funniest story of our times.

Coca Cola does still use coca leaves for its flavor:

"In a telephone interview from Coca-Cola's Atlanta headquarters, Randy Donaldson, a company spokesman, said, ''Ingredients from the coca leaf are used, but there is no cocaine in it and it is all tightly overseen by regulatory authorities.''"

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"Bales of coca destined for Stepan and, ultimately, for Coca-Cola are shipped to the Maywood plant through ports in New York and New Jersey, Mr. O'Brien said. Each shipment carries its own import permit, also issued by the D.E.A."

* https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/business/how-coca-cola-ob...