Fans of Coca-Cola have been left shocked after discovering the origins of the soft drink’s iconic name. The drink, which was founded in 1886, continues to make billions around the globe and saw ...

Cola, in most cases, is a combination of a handful ... coca is extracted from these leaves to make cocaine). One such example can be seen below. Dr. John Stith Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist ...

Colombia's president says cocaine is "no worse" than whiskey as global efforts to "decolonize" the plant spread ...

Colombian authorities are holding a crew of drug traffickers that a grand jury in New York charged with using a fleet of submarines to ferry over 5,000 kilograms of cocaine to the U.S., federal ...

Upon receipt, the company extracts the cocaine from the leaves whereupon they are shipped to Coca Cola. From there, the transformed coca leaves are incorporated into Coke’s semi-secret syrup recipe.

You may have heard this story before, and it's true: The very first Coca-Cola products contained cocaine — but only around 9 milligrams per glass. The drug was touted at the time as a substitute ...