the real thing
One of the most famous cocaine products was Vin Mariani, the first of many cocaine-based wines. Jules Verne quaffed it and wrote Round The World In 80 Days, a feat surely only conceivable under the influence of coke.

Louis Bleriot had a bottle in his cockpit during his strangely-accelerated flight across the English Channel.

Bartholidi, the architect responsible for the Statue of Liberty, declared:

"Vin Mariani seems to brighten to increase all our faculties; it is very probable that had I taken it 20 years ago, the Statue Of Liberty would have attained the height of several hundred meters."

With his gurning, coke-addled face on it no doubt
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coca cola
The most famous cocaine product, of course, was a secret mix of coca-leaf extract, sugar and the caffeine-rich kola nut. Its name? One guess.

Developed by Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton, Coca Cola was marketed as the perfect beverage for a "turbulent, inventive, noisy, neurotic new America," good for "any nerve trouble, mental and physical exhaustion."

Advertisements at the time declared the drink to be "one of the most delightful, cheering, and invigorating of fountain drinks." No doubt. In 1886, every bottle contained the equivalent of a small but respectable line of cocaine.

By 1902, the Coca Cola Company had ceased to use coca-leaf extractin its manufacturing process, and then conveniently forgot they had ever used cocaine. The Coca Cola museum in Atlanta does not mention Coca Cola's debt to the magic bush from Peru.