Coca-Cola Rival Will Include Cocaine Ingredient

The Real Thing; Coca-Cola Rival Will Include Cocaine Ingredient

TSBTV
POSTED: 4:30 pm EST December 12, 2005

BOGOTA, Colombia -- A group of Indians in southern Colombia have created a new soft drink made from coca leaf extract and plan to market their product as an alternative to Coca-Cola.

Coca Sek, a golden, carbonated drink, will go on sale this week in parts of Colombia. But its makers expect they won't be able to export to the United States due to rules blocking the entry of coca, the main ingredient in cocaine.

The soda looks like apple cider, has a tea-like fragrance and a flavor somewhere between Seven-Up and ginger ale.

David Curtidor, a Nasa Indian who heads the small community company producing the drink, says that aside from being refreshing, the drink also is intended to make a political statement against transnational companies. Curtidor says Coca-Cola "symbolizes imperialist domination" and does not buy its raw ingredients in Colombia.

He ays people in the tiny southwestern town of Calderas where the soft drink was created prefer not to drink Coca-Cola. So they are offering a substitute.

Coca-Cola dropped cocaine from its ingredients decades ago, although the soda maker's secret formula still calls for a cocaine-free coca extract produced by the New Jersey-based Stepan Company, which Peruvian officials have said buys dried Peruvian coca leaves.

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"aside from being refreshing, the drink also is intended to make a political statement "


lol i always let my beverage do the talking for me

and i doubt that coke considers 'the small community company ' a rival

so does it give you a buzz or not?

just wait till someone figures out how to extract it.

^ Heh.

I would love to try that shit out.

The locals prefer to not drink coca cola.... they like there coke to have coke in it! Those peeps are just all twacked out on coke.

captainballs said:

so does it give you a buzz or not?

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i'm guessing it might have a little kick but is probably comparable to most caffiene drinks

The people in that area have legally chewed coca leaves for centuries; this is no biggie, IMO.

do they take internet orders ???

I would expect this product to be marketed to and purchased by the same types of people who buy "legal weed"

It doesn't acutally contain cocaine it just contains the left over leaf matter of the cocca plant.

You can't extract shit from the drink because cocaine isn't in it.

I think this is good for the columbian peoples economy. The cocca growers have been mis-understood.

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there is cocaine in it but it's a minute quantity say 10 mg for a liter of drink , so it isn't a viable cocaine source , however cocaine is in it since that the alkaloid the coca plant produces ................