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The drink was popular, for obvious reasons, but was done away with early in the 20th century when some states began outlawing one of the main ingredients. But not the one you're probably thinking.
The dangers of alcohol was becoming a hot topic and the early stages of prohibition was beging to come together. While alcohol was being as seen as dangerous cocaine apparently wasn't such a big deal. Pemberton stopped making his cocaine/alcohol/caffeine potion and decided to focus his attention solely on Coca-Cola.
Of course eventually cocaine was removed from Coca-Cola to give us the drink we have today... well almost. In the late 70s sugar was replaced with high fructose corn syrup and it remains that way today. You can still find the real sugar formular if you buy Coke from Mexico.
By the way, all that sugar was originally added to offset the horrible medicinal flavor of the cocaine.

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