A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola ☕️🍃🥤an illustrated picture book by #1 NYT best-seller @Rmcortes

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Our origin story...
I visited a secret cocaine factory to research @CoffeeCocaCola. I'm building an IG page to document that story: instagram.com/coffeecocaandc… ⬇️🧵: there's a facility in NJ importing Peruvian coca 🍃; it makes #cocaine and sells the #CocaCola #SecretFormula coca extra to @CocaColaCo.
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In researching my @CoffeeCocaCola book, I learned the wild history of @CocaColaCo’s hand in the UN negotiations on the prohibition of coca. Read my illustrated book for more info, or see an essay I posted about it here: rmcortes.medium.com/how-coke…
17 Oct 2023
🇧🇴Bolivia recently challenged the UN’s coca leaf ban. This process could end 70 years of racist discrimination of millions of coca leaf users, many of them indigenous people 🌿#ANewLeaf ✍️@John_WOLA @MartinJelsmaTNI wola.org/analysis/coca-chron…
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He/they/x should’ve just bought coca-cola and gone wild w the cocaine
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I’ve illustrated an essay on this… rmcortes.medium.com/how-coke…
14 Mar 2023
Coca leaves are not cocaine! This unjust comparison stigmatizes & criminalizes people who have #coca as part of their cultural heritage. Colombia & Bolivia asked the UN to remove coca from the list of prohibited substances. reuters.com/world/americas/c… #plantmedicine #drugpolicy #UN
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In 2005, no one would touch this. I self-published and became the #1 best-selling children’s book talking about marijuana in a responsible, scientifically-based, fun way. 4 editions later… it’s my book 🎂 today & I’d like to thank my new publisher @AkashicBooks for the journey.
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28 Mar 2023
Duterte turn 78 yesterday. I can only hope he’s prosecuted before he escapes justice in this world. Some 30,000 Filipinos would still be alive today were it not for his murderous drug war.
28 Mar 2023
The International Criminal Court rejects the bid of the Philippine government to suspend an ongoing investigation into former president Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on drugs while appeal proceedings are being held. Full story: rappler.com/nation/internati…
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Replying to @SteveCurryMD
We worked through noise with selective ion searching. Cocaine was easily detected on all (100%) currency. In the 2nd photo, the spectra from the bill is on top, and the library standard is below.
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Contains natural flavors that may have originated in Peru
13 Mar 2023
Of the many that I have never tried, this is the one I want to try.
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This article on secret coca plants misses a crazier origin story: @CocaColaCo, interested in #cocaine content & leaf flavors, was permitted to grow coca in the United States in 1964. Over 20 years the project grew into these how-to-destroy-coca US govt experiments...🧵
If you were wondering whether it's possible to grow coca in a greenhouse in North America, apparently the answer is yes. From the NY Times in 1988: US Secretly Grows Coca to Find Way to Destroy Cocaine's Source nytimes.com/1988/06/12/us/us…
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In 2023, we just cut coffee and cola together.
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Interesting article on Dr. William Stewart Halsted and his early interest in cocaine hydrochloride as a local anesthetic, including experimental injections on himself, his students, and colleagues. via @columbiamag magazine.columbia.edu/articl…
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Reminded me of experiments by Professor of Ophthalmology H. Knapp, who injected cocaine into the nose, mouth, urethra, and... um, “For the sake of completeness I injected cocaine also into the rectum. The sensibility, which was not great anyhow, was reduced."
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30 Sep 2022
Replying to @UberFacts
There’s a lot more information here:
I visited a secret cocaine factory to research @CoffeeCocaCola. I'm building an IG page to document that story: instagram.com/coffeecocaandc… ⬇️🧵: there's a facility in NJ importing Peruvian coca 🍃; it makes #cocaine and sells the #CocaCola #SecretFormula coca extra to @CocaColaCo.
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Thank you for the observation. And yes, the artist and investigator are one and the same. Check the book for 6 years of research.
Replying to @CoffeeCocaCola
If your investigating is as thorough as the artist that made this image, your work will be very much worth reading. Zoom in to the furthest sign. "No Idling. It's the Law." Don't leave out the littlest of details. They speak volumes to support the authenticity of your work.
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"My drug's better than your drug." No, it's just preference. When I was a young drugophile, I liked espresso, coke and dexies (in moderation, naturally) - as well as DMT and other trips. McKenna should have tried cocaine with his DMT and espresso, he may have changed his mind 😅
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Check out this excellent event coming up on April 14, launching the most up to date Global Drug History edited by Paul Gootenberg. @swalker_ny and I contributed one of the 35 original esseys.
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