Coca des Incas, Cocaine-Laced Wine, 1899
Coca des Incas. Cocaine-laced wine. Coca wine is an alcoholic beverage combining wine with cocaine. At the end of the 19th century, the fear of drug abuse made coca-based drinks less popular. This led to the prohibition of cocaine in the United States in 1914 via the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, and the removal of cocaine from coca wine as well as Coca-Cola, though coca leaf remained. Coca wine itself became illegal in the United States when its other main drug, alcohol, was banned just a few years later with Eighteenth Amendment in 1920. No artist credited
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Science Source/Mary Evans
