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Coca-Cola Taxes (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] yemmly@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago

Did you know it doesn’t even have cocaine in it anymore? What a ripoff!

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Coca Cola ensured that international drug laws grant them an exception to use real coca leaves (with the cocaine extracted from them first). Oddly enough, they could still make their cola taste the same without the leaves. The reason they still use them is because they likely wouldn't be allowed to call it "coca" cola if it had no coca leaves. The name was so recognizable that they asked for an exception to drug laws rather than change the name of their drink.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The other reason is they make a good profit selling medicinal cocaine.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Branding is one helluva drug

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Sounds like an excuse to extract cocaine to me

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Eh, works for me. BRB, making a new product called coca tea, for the... uh... tea.

[-] Fish@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

When did they quit putting cocaine it? If I'd known that then I wouldn't have been buying it anymore!

[-] yemmly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Around 120 years ago, give or take

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