Always Coca-Cola: Coca, Kola, and the *Real* Secret Formula
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Coca Cola - The History of Coke
There was no federal laws in the late 19th century or early 1900s that banned either the consumption, sale, or importation of coca leaves. At the time, more and more poor people were using cocaine to help them work long hours with not enough to eat. In a lot of the US, particularly the South, those poor people were black. Racist white supremacist fears that are all the rage in the Jim Crow South in the early 1900s made Coca-Cola fearful about its connection to the coca leaf.
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