Coca wine
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Coca wine was an alcoholic beverage that combined wine and cocaine.[1] The most popular brand was Vin Mariani developed in 1863 by Corsican entrepreneur Angelo Mariani. It was a popular drink at the time.[2]
In Atlanta, John Pemberton, a pharmacist, developed his own cocktail based on Vin Mariani and called it Pemberton's French Wine Coca. It proved popular among American consumers. But in 1886, when Georgia introduced Prohibition, he had to replace the wine in his recipe with non-alcoholic syrup. The new recipe was similar to, but not the same as Coca-Cola.[2]
At the end of the 19th century, the fear of drug abuse made coca-based drinks less popular. This eventually led to the prohibition of cocaine in the United States, and the removal of cocaine from coca wine as well as Coca-Cola (though coca leaf remained).[2] The drink itself essentially became illegal when its other main drug, alcohol, was banned just a few years later under alcohol prohibition.
[edit] References
- ^ G. Harding "A Wine Miscellany" pg 10, Clarkson Potter Publishing, New York 2005 ISBN 0307346358
- ^ a b c "Coca Wine". www.cocaine.org. http://www.cocaine.org/cocawine.htm. Retrieved on 2007-02-12.
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- University of Buffalo "Before Prohibition: Images from the preprohibition era when many psychotropic substances were legally available in America and Europe" Addiction Research Unit
