John Pemberton was born in Georgia, 1831. He fought in the Civil War and in the battle of Columbus the second to last battle of the Civil War and he got a large sword slash across his chest. It was painful enough for the doctors to give him morphine to help relieve him of the pain caused by the wound. Fortunately for coke fans he got addicted to the drug. Since he had lots of experience in chemistry he tried to make something to help him off his morphine addiction and that thing was coca-cola. The original coca-cola a coca wine which is a wine infused with a small amount of cocaine. He sold it to business owners as a reliever of their stress when more competition popped up. He also sold it to other people addicted to drugs like morphine. His coca wine became illegal when Georgia put a ban on alcohol due to the Temperance movement in 1820s to the 1840s. The Temperance movement was a movement that outlawed alcohol and it was supported mainly by the wives of heavy drinkers. Because of the Temperance movement John had to formulate a different, alcohol free, version of his coca wine. His new version of coca wine was a soft drink that had kola nuts in it. The kola nuts provided caffeine to the drink that woke you up a bit. Even after alcohol became legal again he kept with the new version. After cocaine became illegal he had to buy the dedrugged version of the coca leaves so that the flavor stayed the same even if the drug wasn’t in it anymore.
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