What was up with that? Would people get addicted to Coca-cola like people get addicted to cocaine? I read it was claimed Coca-cola "cured many diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence", but didn't it just cause more problems as well?
Was thinking about the history of coke while drinking a can, maybe someone here can enlighten me on the social history?
I answered this in depth a while back, here's that post. If you want the short and sweet, drinking something with a little coca leaf has no narcotic effect. You would neither get high, nor addicted. It is also worth remembering that it never contained cocaine, it contained coca leaf, it's not the same thing.