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  2. Cocaine - Wikipedia

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    Coca leaves have been used by Andean civilizations since ancient times. [30] In ancient Wari culture, [33] Inca culture, and through modern successor indigenous cultures of the Andes mountains, coca leaves are chewed, taken orally in the form of a tea, or alternatively, prepared in a sachet wrapped around alkaline burnt ashes, and held in the mouth against the inner cheek; it has traditionally ...

  3. Scientists Uncovered a Blow From the Past: 17th Century ... - AOL

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    By the 17th century, when those buried in the crypt would have lived, Milan (then a possession of Spain) was a major importer of exotic plants, especially from the Americas, so cocaine could’ve ...

  4. John Stith Pemberton - Wikipedia

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    John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was an American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola.On May 8, 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become Coca-Cola, but sold the rights to the drink shortly before his death in 1888.

  5. Crack cocaine - Wikipedia

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    Two grams of crack cocaine. Crack cocaine, commonly known simply as crack, and also known as rock, is a free base form of the stimulant cocaine that can be smoked. Crack offers a short, intense high to smokers. The Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment calls it the most addictive form of cocaine. [1]

  6. Facts about Coca-Cola you may not know

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    John Pemberton, the inventor of coke, was a pharmacist who invented many drugs. However, he never made any money in pharmaceuticals. *The Coca-Cola brand is worth more than $74 billion dollars.

  7. Drug policy of Canada - Wikipedia

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    King was concerned with the growing numbers of white opium users and believed that Canada had to set the precedent on drug use worldwide. The following year the government enacted the Opium Act of 1908, which made it an offence to import, manufacture, possess or sell opium, while not making it an imprisonable offence. [2]

  8. Gordon Ramsay explains cocaine is restaurant industry's ... - AOL

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    The cocaine epidemic is the subject of Ramsay's new ITV documentary "Gordon Ramsay on Cocaine," in which he travels to Colombia to explore the drug-making process. "I've cooked some serious s–t ...

  9. Legal status of cocaine - Wikipedia

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    Cocaine trafficking is punishable by the capital punishment and drug consumption is punishable with four years in prison in the UAE. United Kingdom: Illegal: Illegal: Illegal: Illegal: Cocaine was first made illegal by the Dangerous Drugs Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 46). It is now classed as a Class A drug, controlled by the Misuse of Drugs ...