One such example can be seen below. Dr. John Stith Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, combined coca leaves and kola nuts to make a syrup, which was mixed with carbonated water to what is now ...

from a mixture of coca leaves and kola nuts, sweetened with sugar, hence the name Coca Cola. It was not until 1893 that Coca Cola was sold and promoted as a drink. Gradually the cocaine was ...

a predecessor to Coca-Cola made up of wine, cocaine, and caffeine-containing kola nuts. The product was advertised as being able to cure everything from constipation to chronic diseases ...

This myth acknowledges the great importance that coca leaves had, and continue to have, in the culture and history of the people of the Andes. Despite gaining notoriety in modern times for being ...