The History Of Cocaine

Cocaine started off as a plant called coca. The plant would be chewed when scaling up high altitude. The plant would make the altitude not affect you. A German chemist called Albert Niemann extracted the “high” effects from the plant. He made it into a blocky hard form, then a softish powder. Even some scientist would promote the benefits of cocaine. In 1886 the drug grew popularity from John Pemberton when he made a soda with Coca leaves called Coca-Cola. In 1905 hospitals were reporting nose damage from snorting cocaine. In 1912 the US government reported 5,000 deaths to cocaine in a single year. In 1922 Cocaine was officially illegal. In the 70s the drug was used to keep up energy in the US and be happy. By 2008 cocaine became the second