Word - Cocaine cola

“Coca-Cola buys 115 tons of coca leaf from Peru and 105 tons from Bolivia per year, with which it produces ... 500 million bottles of soda per day.”</
-- Nils Ericsson, Peru’s drug czar, in a Jan. 26 statement clarifying his position on the industrialization of the coca leaf in Peru</
“As it now stands, only [chemical manufacturer] Stepan Co.’s New Jersey plant possesses the necessary DEA permit to import the leaves and remove the cocaine from them. Anyone looking to reproduce the drink [Coca-Cola] would have to go to Stepan to get one of the key ingredients, and Stepan would refuse to sell to them.”</
-- www.snopes.com, which investigates and reports on urban legends, including whether Coca-Cola contains cocaine (it doesn’t)</
“Six years ago we took on the job of trying to re-establish the good name of the coca leaf, which is a plant with enormous medicinal properties. It’s an energizing drink. It’s like coffee, since it is lightly stimulating.”</
-- David Curtidor, a Nasa Indian, describing on Dec. 12 the launch of Coca Sek, a carbonated drink now sold in Colombia with cocaine as the main ingredient