Independence Day Special: This Is Your Country on Drugs

COCAINE INDEX

Number of Americans who report using cocaine at least once: 1 in 10 (1)

Year that the active chemical ingredient from coca leaves was first
isolated: 1859 (2)

Year that cocaine-flavored "Vin Mariani" was introduced in France by
pharmacist Angelo Mariani: 1865 (3)

Number of popes who sent letters to Mariani thanking him for the
concoction: two (4)

Year that Sigmund Freud published the essay "Uber Coca": 1884 (5)

Year that Coca-Cola was first sold in Atlanta: 1886 (6)

Year that cocaine was removed from Coca-Cola: 1903 (7)

Previous Vin Mariani­inspired drink sold by Coca-Cola founder John Styth
Pemberton: Pemberton's French Wine (8)

A useful application of cocaine, according to Sigmund Freud: cure for
morphine addiction (9)

Names of various cocaine-based remedies at the turn of the century: Dr.
Tucker's Asthma Specific, Cola-Bola chewing gum, Ryno's Hay Fever, Catarrh
Remedy (10)

First instance of cocaine use on film: Squeedunk (1909) (11)

Number of Americans who say that Hollywood glamorizes drug use: 7 in 10 (12)

Fictional hero of the 1916 film The Mystery of the Leaping Fish starring
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.: Coke Ennyday (13)

For further details, see footnotes - http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1192/a01.html

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