Coca wine
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| Type | Wine |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | France |
| Introduced | 1863 |
Coca wine is an alcoholic beverage combining wine with cocaine.[1] One popular brand was Vin Mariani, developed in 1863 by French-Corsican chemist and entrepreneur Angelo Mariani.[2]
At the end of the 19th century, the fear of drug abuse made coca-based drinks less popular. This led to the prohibition of
coca leaf remained.[2] Coca wine itself became illegal in the United States when its other main drug, alcohol, was banned just a few years later with the Eighteenth Amendment
in 1920.
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Peruvian Wine of Coca -
Coca Mariani medal byLouis-Oscar Roty
Related beverages
In
John Pemberton, a pharmacist, developed a beverage based on Vin Mariani, called Pemberton's French Wine Coca. It proved popular among American consumers. In 1886, when Georgia introduced Prohibition, Pemberton had to replace the wine in his recipe with non-alcoholic syrup. The new recipe became Coca-Cola.[2]
Physiological effects
The combination of cocaine and alcohol leads to the formation of
References
- ISBN 0-307-34635-8.
- ^ a b c "Coca Wine". cocaine.org. Retrieved 2007-02-12.
- ^ PMID 19655286.
- PMID 8371143.
- PMID 11229942.
External links
Media related to Cocawine at Wikimedia Commons- University of Buffalo "Before Prohibition: Images from the preprohibition era when many psychotropic substances were legally available in America and Europe" Addiction Research Unit
