- Cocawine
Cocawine was an
alcoholic beverage that combinedwine andcocaine .G. Harding "A Wine Miscellany" pg 10, Clarkson Potter Publishing, New York 2005 ISBN 0307346358 ] The most popular brand was "Vin Mariani " developed in1863 by Corsican entrepreneurAngelo Mariani . It was a popular drink at the time.cite web| url = http://www.cocaine.org/cocawine.htm | title = Coca Wine | publisher = www.cocaine.org | accessdate = 2007-02-12]In
Atlanta ,John Pemberton , a pharmacist, developed his own cocktail based on Vin Mariani and called itPemberton's French Wine Coca . It proved popular among American consumers. But in1886 , when Georgia introducedProhibition , he had to replace the wine in his recipe with non-alcoholicsyrup . The new recipe was the origin ofCoca-Cola .At the end of the 19th century, the fear of drug abuse made coca-based drinks less popular. This eventually led to the outlawing of cocaine in the United States, and the removal of
cocaine from Coca-Cola.References
External links
*University of Buffalo " [http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm Before Prohibition: Images from the preprohibition era when many psychotropic substances were legally available in America and Europe] " Addiction Research Unit
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