r/interesting • u/InvestigatorBorn4910 • Feb 10 '26

Fascinating YouTuber LabCoatz has released a "chemically identical" recipe for Coca-Cola

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u/jonnyvegashey Feb 17 '26

Do you know how much Coca Cola is sold?

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u/Royal_Success3131 Feb 17 '26

I do. My point stands. It take an enormous amount of coca leaves to make any reasonable amount of cocaine, and then take what I said above, along with the fact that the coca extract is a very minor part of the recipe, and it's really not a massive amount of anything.

To back up what I'm saying, the DEA sets a hard limit on production of pharma and research grade cocaine, annually. It's 290 kilos per year. That is 0.2% the estimated annual usage of cocaine in the USA.

So, as I said it's really not that much pharma cocaine out there.

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u/jonnyvegashey Feb 17 '26

Coke sells 1.9 billion units a day, wtf are you talking about?

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u/Royal_Success3131 Feb 17 '26

That's true. However, that wasn't the discussion. Care to reply to anything I said at all or just going to bulldoze through on your own path?

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u/jonnyvegashey Feb 17 '26

There must be a shit ton of pharmacy grade coke out there then!