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Later popes did indeed. Popes Leo XIII and Pius X were drinkers of the Vin Mariani coca wine, the former even awarding its creator Angelo Mariani a Vatican gold medal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Mariani

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Vin Mariani was the inspiration for John Pemberton to create his own "French Wine Coca" nerve tonic, which also included caffeine from the Kola nut. Later, influenced by the temperance movement, he left out the alcohol (but not the coca), and thus, the first iteration of Coca-Cola was born...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#19th_century_histori...

> It originally contained 6 mg of cocaine per fluid ounce of wine (211.2 mg/L),

0.2g per L of uncut yeyo ... that's definitely not a placebo.

That’s gonna pack a fair whallop, especially given the coadministration with ethanol results in the whole cocaethylene thing happening resulting in a longer lasting buzz.

those were the days ... but then society went down the drain and they all died - good that it's illegal now and nobody uses it anymore!

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