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Don't be ridiculous! It would be absurd for the Coca Cola company to be allowed to directly import coca leaves for use in their "secret" recipe. Instead, it's an intermediary (the "Stepan Company") who imports the 200,000 lbs of coca leaves each year, removes the cocaine for pharmaceutical use, and then sells the remaining "flavor" extracts to Coca Cola: https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/business/how-coca-cola-ob...

(which is to say, thanks for encouraging me to learn about this)



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