Claims that Coca-Cola contains the illicit drug cocaine have existed since the company's founding. Now, they're circulating on social media. “The first bottle of Coca-Cola from 1894 contained ...

“Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in,” Musk wrote in a viral tweet on April 27. While Musk’s tweet is getting a lot of attention, his claim about an illicit ingredient in ...

That Coca-Cola contains cocaine is a popular middle school rumor, and it’s not completely unfounded. Even its nickname Coke hints at this secret ingredient. The answer is a little more ...

Here, a chemical company manufactures cocaine legally, with special permission from the U.S. government, all in the service of a familiar company: Coca-Cola. The name Coca-Cola is so familiar that ...

Historical evidence suggests that the original Coca-Cola did, in fact, contain cocaine. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Coca-Cola gets its iconic taste thanks in part to a chemical processing factory in a sleepy New Jersey neighborhood that has the country’s only license to import the plant used to make cocaine.