Editing Coca-Cola (section)

====Coca leaf ====
Pemberton called for five [[ounce]]s of coca leaf per gallon of syrup (approximately 37&nbsp;g/L), a significant dose; in 1891, Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Coca-Cola once contained an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass. (For comparison, a typical dose or "line" of cocaine is 50–75&nbsp;mg.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/cocaine/faq.htm|title=Cocaine Facts - How to Tell Use of Cocaine - Questions, Myths, Truth|website=thegooddrugsguide.com|access-date=June 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006104725/http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/cocaine/faq.htm|archive-date=October 6, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>) In 1903, the fresh coca leaves were removed from the formula.<ref>Liebowitz, Michael, R. (1983). ''The Chemistry of Love''. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.</ref>

After 1904, instead of using fresh leaves, Coca-Cola started using "spent" leaves&nbsp;– the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with trace levels of cocaine.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_033.html |title=Is it true Coca-Cola once contained cocaine? |access-date=February 27, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221114907/http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_033.html |archive-date=February 21, 2007 |url-status=dead |date=June 14, 1985}}</ref> Since then (by 1929<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archives.drugabuse.gov/blog/post/coca-colas-scandalous-past|title=Coca-Cola's Scandalous Past|date=March 1, 2012|access-date=March 29, 2022|archive-date=March 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324032927/https://archives.drugabuse.gov/blog/post/coca-colas-scandalous-past|url-status=dead}}</ref>), Coca-Cola has used a cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Today, that extract is prepared at a [[Stepan Company]] plant in [[Maywood, New Jersey]], the only manufacturing plant authorized by the federal government to import and process coca leaves, which it obtains from Peru and Bolivia.<ref name="mayclifford">{{cite news|last=May|first=Clifford D.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/business/how-coca-cola-obtains-its-coca.html|title=How Coca-Cola Obtains Its Coca|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 1, 1988|access-date=April 11, 2008|quote=A Stepan laboratory in Maywood, N.J., is the nation's only legal commercial importer of coca leaves, which it obtains mainly from Peru and, to a lesser extent, Bolivia. Besides producing the coca flavoring agent sold to The Coca-Cola Company, Stepan extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it sells to [[Mallinckrodt]] Inc., a St. Louis pharmaceutical manufacturer that is the only company in the United States licensed to purify the product for medicinal use|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420232528/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/business/how-coca-cola-obtains-its-coca.html|archive-date=April 20, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it then sells to [[Mallinckrodt]], the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for [[Cocaine#Medical|medicinal use]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Drew |last=Benson |title=Coca kick in drinks spurs export fears |url=http://www.mindfully.org/Food/2004/Kdrink-Coca-Drink19apr04.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120530045600/http://www.mindfully.org/Food/2004/Kdrink-Coca-Drink19apr04.htm |archive-date=May 30, 2012 }}</ref>

Long after the syrup had ceased to contain any significant amount of cocaine, in [[North Carolina]] "dope" remained a common colloquialism for Coca-Cola, and "dope-wagons" were trucks that transported it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ncpedia.org/dope-wagons|title=Dope Wagons|work=ncpedia.org|access-date=June 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200202113220/https://ncpedia.org/dope-wagons|archive-date=February 2, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>