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Hmmm... in the US, I think cocaine cola was illegal in the 50s, but you could get amphetamines pretty easily...
It gets worse. Coca-cola removed the coke because of racism.
oh it gets even worse than that. the coca leaves are shipped to Jersey so the cocaine can be removed before use in the drink! source.
That's not worse.
hmmm.... historically, coca leaves were holy to the indigenous people of the andes and still play an important cultural role. ok, that's all I'm gonna argue.
And beserkers chugged a cocktail of psychedelic mushrooms and Odin knows what else, they then went apeshit or went into a dream walk and bashed some Saxons skull in. Drugs have played important roles within various cultures and traditions through the millenia, so long as you aren't being an ass about it to the cultures it doesn't seem particularly relevant to what someone outside said traditions does with it.
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Getting high as shit has had an important cultural role in most of the world at one point in time or another. Westerners got away from it post-Christendom but even then it's been a thing basically everywhere at one point or another, unless nothing psychedelic grows there, and even then there are ways to achieve ecstatic states to roughly similar effect through extreme asceticism - if there's not something to eat or smoke to get there then your shaman might have to starve and dehydrate himself then be suspended in the air through rods run through his chest, but you can get there either way.
Getting high as shit may be the origin of culture to have cultural roles in the first place
Common misconception. Raw coca leaves don't get you high. Coca leaves are chewed to help alleviate altitude sickness and improve physical performance at high altitudes.
From what I understand, people chew on them all day. It's kinda like drinking coffee all day. And coffee does get you a little high as well for sure. (Haven't had caffeine in years, tried it again recently. Definitely some mild euphoria and was horrible for my resting heart rate and anxiety. I usually hang around 40-50bpm but black tea put me up to like 60-100.)
It helps with the high altitude/low oxygen of the mountains.
Better it being holy and treated with respect than however it's being used in our culture today.
Oh, but it gets else. Coca Cola can be used to both clean your toilets AND moisten your cakes!
Believe it or not it gets worse than that. Santa Claus was invented by Coca Cola and created the red and white color scheme because it matched the colors of the can.
They did this to try to come up with a way to convince people to by a cold drink in the winter.
Santa Claus existed before coke ads, he just traditionally wore green.