Get the feel of wholesome refreshment with an ice-cold bottle of Coca-Cola and you'll

really feel better.

When you look hot, feel hot and are hot, pause, go to the refrigerator and get an ice-cold

Coca-Cola.

You'll find it so refreshing.

You've all heard about how the recipe for Coca-Cola once contained a little bit of cocaine,

9 milligrams per serving to be exact.

What usually goes unmentioned with this piece of trivia is that Coca-Cola was created

in a time when anyone with 25 cents could walk into an American pharmacy and walk out

with one gram of powdered cocaine.

And we all assume we know what we're talking about when we use the word cocaine.

But the vast majority of blow on the streets of the United States is diluted with all kinds

of cutting agents.

They contain more than 65% cocaine, usually more like 40% and often much less.

These days, the experience most Americans believe they've had with cocaine is actually

experience with the stimulating effects of snorting powdered caffeine or sugar combined

with the numbing effects of some cheap anesthetic.

Plus, the bitter taste of quinine and somewhere in there may be half the amount of illegal

narcotics you paid for.

And that's all presuming you're alive to hear me say this because you didn't accidentally

die from an overdose of the fentanyl cutting a great deal of modern cocaine.

But it wasn't always like this.

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