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Always Coca-Cola: Coca, Kola, and the *Real* Secret Formula

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Coca Cola's Secret Formula

Coca Cola imports a huge amount of coca leaves legally and it creates a huge. amount of cocaine legally. And then it destroys all that cocaine. What happens to that cocaine? It's clear from the record in the 20th century that it was to be destroyed with federal bureau of narcotics agents overseeing the destruction of that cocaine at Maywood. There's piles of cocaine being incinerated in New Jersey, for real. And also that Coca Cola still contains extract of coca Leaves, teeny tiny amount with all the cocaine taken out, but it's there. This is all completely bad shit,. both because it's a totally bad shit story and because it's an example of

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