It's a fun yet familiar fact that Coca-Cola, one of America's oldest soft drinks, contained actual cocaine in it until 1904. Dr. John Stith Pemberton was the entrepreneurial pharmacist who dreamed ...

Fans of Coca-Cola have been left shocked after discovering the origins of the soft drink’s iconic name. The drink, which was founded in 1886, continues to make billions around the globe and saw ...

Colombia's president says cocaine is "no worse" than whiskey as global efforts to "decolonize" the plant spread ...

Colombian authorities are holding a crew of drug traffickers that a grand jury in New York charged with using a fleet of submarines to ferry over 5,000 kilograms of cocaine to the U.S., federal ...

A third wrote: “Coca-Cola is Coca (the South American plant cocaine is derived from) and Kola (kola nut, a stimulant from West Africa). Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine but not anymore ...