For God, Country, and Coca-Cola
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00B3M3UF6
Publish date: August 1st 2008
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 664
Edition language: English
In the late nineteenth century, cocaine was considered a wonderdrug. Heralded by medical journals, pharmacists, Freud and even several Popes - Pope Leo III was a regular imbiber of Vin Mariani, a wine created in 1863 that contained 2.16 grains of cocaine, in the recommended dose of six glasses per d...