The real cocaine drink and endorsed by the Pope!
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Posted on 09/29/2006 11:35:32 AM PDT by BansheeBill
They should've called it "Ritalin". Parents would be demanding that the schools buy it to give to all the students.
Somehow I don't seem to remember all this hand-wringing over a perfume being named "Opium".
I had a can of Red Bull once, I thought it was nasty. Perhaps Vodka would have helped
An average 5-ounce cup of coffee has at least 106 milligrams of caffeine…
A 5-ounce cup of coffee? Isn’t that just a bit tiny? I just checked my coffee cup, and it holds 12 ounces. Is the 5 ounce cup some kind of dainty New England or California New Age thing?
Three 12 ounce cups every morning.
Great. Let me manufacture a cola from sudafed and battery acid and call it "Meth". It will be in 7-11s everywhere. < /sarc >
Assuming that isn't also a joke: If you type </sarcasm> a Web browser will interpret it as a tag and not display it. To display </sarcasm> like I just did (twice now) you must type </sarcasm>.
The same sort of statistics that support marijuana being a "gateway drug" also support the same designation for alcohol and tobacco. (Don't know how anyone would arrive at exactly the conclusion you cite, though.)
Very simple: The guy just had to think, "I don't like tobacco, alcohol, or caffeine, but I like my pot. I think I'll write and article saying what I don't like is a gateway drug and what I do like isn't."
Me, I don't like tobacco or pot and I drink only occasionally, but if they want my caffeine, they'll have to pry the cola out of my dead, cold, frosty, refreshing hands.
That much caffeine can be heart-dangerous to a much larger percentage of individuals than Red Bull and other such "energy" drinks. I would also be concerned as to the potential long term effects of their oral anesthetic coupled with such a large amount of caffeine. When the Ortho Evra patch came on the market I warned in this space that it would be very bad news. I am saying now, please avoid this drink.
Self-correction: should read "coupled with such a large amount of caffeine and alcohol" since "Cocaine" is intended for mixing with vodka.
Yea, thanks, i'll have to remember that for the future.
“cocaine” & “throat-numbing”
AMEN! If these guys truly appreciated freedom, they'd be working in different jobs.
PUENTE PIEDRA, Peru - Amid clanging machinery and the whiffs of steam on the factory floor, a new company is producing a soft drink that its creators pledge will transform this Andean country, if successful.
That is a big if, because while KDrink is filled with vitamins, calcium and proteins that attract health-conscious consumers, its most important ingredient is coca, the much-maligned green leaf used to make cocaine. That same leaf will provide the drink's kick.
But that has not stopped the Peruvian maker, Kokka Royal Food & Drink, from filling 200,000 of the 10-ounce bottles since operations began in February. Nor has it kept Kokka Royal's lawyers from negotiating with health authorities in Europe to secure import permits, which KDrink's makers say would convert an oddity of a concoction into a real competitor for the world's big-name beverages.
"You don't get this from Gatorade," said Anselm Pi Rambla, the Spanish investor who has spearheaded the project. "It does not give you a high like crack cocaine. But it does give you energy you can use."
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