De geheime geschiedenis van Coca-cola. Coca-Cola still imports coca leaves which are used to manufacture cocaine in the United States

Cocabladeren worden in het Andesgebergte al duizenden jaren gekauwd en geconsumeerd. Ze zijn rijk aan voedingsstoffen, ze verzachten problemen met de ademhaling en spijsvertering en zijn een natuurlijke pijnstiller.
Ontdek de geheime historie van Coca-Cola, cocabladeren en cocaïne.
Zowel de inheemse traditie als wetenschappelijke studies tonen aan dat cocabladeren in hun natuurlijke vorm geheel veilig zijn en niet verslavend. Om cocaïne te produceren worden de bladeren verwerkt en worden giftige chemicaliën toegevoegd. Daarom komen er steeds meer coca-producten op de markt in de landen rond de Andes.

In de Verenigde Staten wordt nog altijd een agressief verdelgingsbeleid gevoerd wat regeringen in Zuid-Amerika in staat stelt giftige chemicaliën te sproeien boven de Andes om het medicinale gewas te vernietigen. Volgens de Amerikaanse wet is het verboden om cocabladeren te bezitten of te importeren, tenzij je Coca-Cola heet. Om de traditionele smaak van het best verkochte drankje te behouden overtuigde het bedrijf de Amerikaanse regering lange tijd geleden een uitzondering te maken.
Coca-Cola gebruikte oorspronkelijk cocaïne in haar formule. Dit kwam in 1903 tot een einde maar de naam bleef bestaan. ‘Coca’ in Coca-Cola komt van de cocaplant en ‘Kola’ komt van de kolanoot die het drankje ook haar smaak geeft.

De geheime geschiedenis van Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is de enige Amerikaanse corporatie die het recht heeft om legaal cocabladeren te importeren. Dit gaat via een verwerkingsbedrijf dat bekend staat als Stepan Company. In 1922 werd het importeren van cocaïne naar de VS verboden na invoering van de Jones-Miller Act, maar Coca-Cola (en haar laboratorium) vormden een uitzondering op de regel. Deze uitzondering bleef geheim tot The New York Times in de tachtiger jaren achter de schokkende waarheid kwam.

100 ton cocaïne-ingrediënten per jaar
Elk jaar importeert Stepan Company zo’n 100 ton aan cocabladeren. Ze hebben daarvoor ‘speciale toestemming’ van de DEA. Houd de totale fraude rond de huidige ‘oorlog tegen drugs’ in gedachten en hoe jonge Amerikanen soms tien jaar de gevangenis in moeten voor drugsbezit terwijl één van de grootste corporaties in de VS bladeren importeert die gebruikt worden om cocaïne te maken.
Maar waar gaat het witte poeder naartoe wanneer Coca-Cola het niet gebruikt voor haar dranken? Het blijkt dat de cocaïne wordt verkocht aan Mallinckrodt Incorporated in St. Louis in de Amerikaanse staat Missouri.
Mallinckrodt ontvangt niet alleen de cocaïne van Coca-Cola maar importeert ook opium uit India. Bovendien koopt het bedrijf THC uit cannabis wat geteeld wordt in de VS. Wanneer je dus een machtige corporatie bent mag je zoveel cocaïne maken als je wilt terwijl je daarnaast opium en cannabis mag opkopen.

Meer dan een kwart ton ‘medicinale’ cocaïne?
Men kan zich afvragen waar alle cocaïne en opium naartoe gaat nadat het in ontvangst is genomen bij Mallinckrodt. De officiële verklaring luidt dat het gebruikt wordt voor ‘medicinale doeleinden’.
Uit 100 ton cocabladeren kan men ongeveer 333 kilogram cocaïne verkrijgen. Het is moeilijk voor te stellen hoe 333 kilo cocaïne wordt gebruikt voor medicinale doeleinden. Hoe en waar wordt 333.000 gram cocaïne gebruikt voor medicinale doeleinden in de VS? Heeft een dokter ooit cocaïne voorgeschreven? Derhalve blijven drie mogelijkheden over.

• Mallinckrodt slaat enorme hoeveelheden cocaïne op.
• Mallinckrodt vernietigt grote hoeveelheden cocaïne.
• Grote hoeveelheden cocaïne ‘raken zoek’ bij Mallinckrodt en gaan naar bijvoorbeeld politici, astronauten en DEA-agenten.

Big Pharma produceert al lange tijd cocaïne
Ten tijde van de overgang naar de 20e eeuw produceerden vele giganten in de farmaceutische industrie cocaïne. Het ging onder meer om de bedrijven Parke, Davis, Merck en Squibb.
Merck, de huidige producent van Gardasil vaccins, domineerde de cocaïnemarkt, zo kunnen we lezen in het boek Andean cocaine: the making of a global drug door Paul Gootenberg. Het toont aan dat de producenten van medicijnen niet geïnteresseerd zijn in wat ze de mensen verkopen, zolang ze maar winst maken.

De huisarts is de drugsdealer en de farmaceutische industrie is het drugslaboratorium.

Coca leaves have been chewed and consumed as tea for thousands of years in the high Andes. They are rich in many essential nutrients; they ease respiratory and digestive distress and are a natural stimulant and painkiller. Indigenous tradition and scientific studies have both confirmed that in their natural form, the leaves are completely safe and non-addictive -- it takes intensive processing and toxic chemical ingredients to produce cocaine. That's why more and more coca-containing products have started to hit the market in Andean countries in the past few years.

Yet the United States still aggressively pursues an eradication policy that encourages Andean governments to spray their forests with toxic chemicals to eliminate this medicinal crop. It is illegal to import or possess the leaves under U.S. law -- unless you're the Coca-Cola company. In an effort to preserve the traditional flavor of the best-selling drink, the company long ago convinced the U.S. government to exempt it from the law.

(Coca-Cola, by the way, used to literally contain cocaine in its original formula. The practice was halted in 1903, but the name persisted. The "coca" part of "coca-cola" is derived from the coca plant, and the "kola" comes from the kola nut which also flavored the original beverage.)

The secret history of Coca-Cola, coca leaves and cocaine

Coca-Cola is the only U.S. corporation that has been granted the right to legally import coca leaves into the United States, via a coca processing lab known as the Stepan Company). In 1922, the Jones-Miller Act banned cocaine imports into the United States, but Coca-Cola (and its lab) was granted an exception. This exception remained a secret until the late 1980's when the New York Times seemed shocked to discover the truth.

As the New York Times published in 1988 (http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/b...)

This week, details of how Coca-Cola obtains the coca and how it is processed emerged from interviews with Government officials and scientists involved in drug research programs. They identified the Illinois-based Stepan Company as the importer and processor of the coca used in Coke. After Stepan officials acknowledged their ties to Coca-Cola, the soft drink giant confirmed those details of its operations.

In a telephone interview from Coca-Cola's Atlanta headquarters, Randy Donaldson, a company spokesman, said, ''Ingredients from the coca leaf are used, but there is no cocaine in it and it is all tightly overseen by regulatory authorities.''

100 tons of cocaine ingredients each year - let's do the math

Approximately 100 metric tons of coca leaves are imported to the Stepan Company each year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan...) under "special permission" from the DEA. Keep all this in mind when you consider the total fraud of the current "War on Drugs" and how young African American men are given ten-year prison sentences for pot possession while one of the largest corporations in America is actually importing leaves that are used to manufacture cocaine.

Once the coca leaves are imported into the USA under these special permissions from the DEA, the cocaine is extracted out of the coca leaves. Coca-Cola doesn't use the cocaine, you see. There is no cocaine in Coca-Cola today.

This brings up an obvious question: Where does all the white powder cocaine go if not to Coca-Cola? It turns out that this cocaine is sold to a St. Louis company called Mallinckrodt Incorporated.

Mallinckrodt receives not only all the cocaine from the Coca-Cola imports, but also imports opium from India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallin...). In addition, this company also buys THC extracted from marijuana grown in the United States. So much for the War on Drugs, huh? It turns out if you buddy up to the DEA and federal regulators, you can make all the cocaine you want while buying opium and marijuana by the ton -- as long as you're a powerful corporation with ties to Coca-Cola and other wealthy organizations.

More than a quarter ton of cocaine for "medicinal" use?

It's a reasonable question to wonder where all this cocaine and opium ends up going after it arrives at Mallinckrodt. The official explanation is that it's for "medical use." But let's do the math on this and see if that explanation holds water.

According to various websites that are readily found in any search engine, it takes roughly 300 grams of coca leaves to produce 1 gram of refined cocaine. This means that 100 metric tons of coca leaves (100 x 1000 kilograms, or 100,000 kilograms) can produce roughly 333 kilos of cocaine each year.

Ask around... That's a lot of cocaine. Remember, too, that these are 333 kilos of cocaine approved by the DEA -- an agency which claims to be fighting a "war on drugs" but somehow grants immunity to Coca-Cola suppliers who are literally manufacturing hundreds of kilos of cocaine each year.

All this brings up the obvious question: What is the Mallinckrodt company doing with 333 kilos of cocaine each year? Throwing a big annual Christmas party or something? It is impossible to imagine that 333 kilos of cocaine are being used for "medical purposes" unless you have a very loose definition of "medical purposes." Although this is pure conjecture, I wouldn't be surprised to learn if a significant portion of this was handed out to top DEA officials as bribes to pay them off and keep the cocaine operation running.

Enough lines of cocaine for the entire U.S. Congress!

Continuing with the math, 333 kilos is (obviously) 333,000 grams of cocaine. How much cocaine is that, exactly? Well, according to TheGoodDrugsGuide.com, a typical "line" of cocaine (a "line" is what a typical user will inhale to ingest the cocaine) contains 50 - 75mg, or roughly 1/20th of a gram (http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/co...).

This means that each gram of cocaine is enough to make up to 20 "lines" of cocaine, give or take, depending on how crazy you and your friends are.

Multiply that by the 333,000 grams of cocaine that could be produced from the 100 metric tons of cocaine leaves being imported into the USA each year, and you come to the astonishing realization that the coca leaves imported for the benefit of the Coca-Cola company can be processed into the equivalent of 6.66 million lines of cocaine each year!

Here's the math again (calculations are all rounded for the sake of convenience, so they're just rough estimates):

100 metric tons of coca leaves = 100,000 kilograms of coca leaves
100,000 kilograms of coca leaves produces 333 kilograms of cocaine
333 kilograms equals 333,000 grams
333,000 grams of cocaine can be divided into 6.66 million "lines" of cocaine

P.S. According to Wiki Answers, 333,000 grams of cocaine is worth roughly $16.7 million on the street (at $50 a gram).

It strains the limits of believability to think that 333,000 grams of cocaine are being used for "medical purposes" in America. How and where are 333,000 grams of cocaine being used for "medical purposes?" I mean, have you ever gone to your doctor and watched him write a prescription for cocaine? Nope.

This seemingly leaves only three possibilities for where all this cocaine is going:

Possibility #1) The Mallinckrodt company might be stockpiling massive amounts of cocaine each year, perhaps dwarfing Disneyland's "Space Mountain" ride.

Possibility #2) The Mallinckrodt company might be somehow destroying massive amounts of cocaine each year. (But human greed probably prevents this from happening, given that this white power is so darned valuable...)

Possibility #3) The Mallinckrodt company might be "losing track" of massive amounts of cocaine each year (i.e. is disappears out the back door and into the hands of DEA agents and politicians who keep the whole operation "legal"). This is one case where brown-nosing the DEA leaves a thin layer of white dust on your nose, too.

Or hey, maybe all this cocaine is being quietly distributed to all the doctors and pharmacists who are chronically addicted to drugs themselves -- it's a huge percentage of the medical workforce because they have access to drugs on a day-to-day basis and they think they need a pharmaceutical kick to survive their long work hours. 6.66 million lines of cocaine is enough to keep a few thousand pharmacists churning away, filling high-profit prescriptions for painkillers and psychiatric drugs that turn everybody else into addicts, too.