{"id":538921,"date":"2010-04-21T16:57:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T20:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-21-coked-out-coca-colla-sic\/"},"modified":"2010-04-21T16:57:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T20:57:59","slug":"coked-out-coca-colla-sic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/538921","title":{"rendered":"Coked-out Coca-Colla [sic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Jen Harper <\/p>\n<p>High-fructose corn syrup in soda? Bad. Cocaine in soda? Depends<br \/>\non whom you ask. We all know Coca-Cola used to contain trace amounts of the<br \/>\nnarcotic back in the day, but, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/apr\/14\/coca-colla-real-thing-bolivia\">UK<br \/>\nGuardian<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1621687\/bolivia-slips-coke-back-into-coca-colla\">Fast<br \/>\nCompany<\/a>, Bolivia&#8217;s kicking it old school with its coca-leaf containing soda,<br \/>\nCoca-Colla (note the second L&mdash;I smell copyright infringement; it&#8217;s also black,<br \/>\nsweet, and comes in a red-labeled bottle). Bolivia had previously tried to ban<br \/>\nthe production of the coca leaf&mdash;the raw ingredient of cocaine&mdash;but now that coca<br \/>\ngrower Evo Morales is president, the government is singing a different tune. And<br \/>\nI&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s a tune that sounds a little something like this:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Like what you see? <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/member\/email-subscriptions\/\">Sign up to receive The Grist List, our email roundup of pun-usual green news<\/a> just like this, sent out every Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-21-bolivias-morales-slams-capitalist-debt-to-global-warming\/\">Bolivia&#8217;s Morales slams capitalist debt to global warming<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-20-power-your-house-with-poop\/\">Power your house with poop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-19-the-peoples-climate-conference-in-bolivia-kicks-off-with-ambitio\/\">The &#8220;people&#8217;s climate conference&#8221; in Bolivia kicks off with ambitious aims<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=716be9c520f94faacfe0930a68627cb8&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=716be9c520f94faacfe0930a68627cb8&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/ib.adnxs.com\/seg?add=24595&#038;t=2\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jen Harper High-fructose corn syrup in soda? Bad. Cocaine in soda? Depends on whom you ask. We all know Coca-Cola used to contain trace amounts of the narcotic back in the day, but, according to the UK Guardian via Fast Company, Bolivia&#8217;s kicking it old school with its coca-leaf containing soda, Coca-Colla (note the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}