Elon Musk wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that he would like to buy Coca-Cola to “put cocaine back” in the drink. Musk’s post came two days after the billionaire bought Twitter in a $ 44 billion deal. “Let’s make Twitter fun!” wrote on Twitter less than an hour after expressing his plans for the beverage company. While Musk’s comments about Coca-Cola were probably spontaneous, they have some historical truth. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, cocaine was legal in 1885 when John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, first made the drink. At the time, Pemberton’s recipe contained a cocaine extract derived from coca leaves. He described the drink as a “patent drug” and a “brain tonic and mental drink”. A 1988 New York Times article about The Coca-Cola Company also reported how cocaine was originally included in the drink but eliminated by the 1900s. Representatives of The Coca-Cola Company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider. Musk’s tweet about Coca-Cola, which went viral, elicited a response from MP Lauren Boebert, who pierced Hunter Biden’s documented drug use. “Did Hunter ask you for favors?” she wrote. Ever since Musk announced the acquisition of Twitter, many users of his platform have been making suggestions on Twitter about which companies he should buy next. A Twitter user wrote that Musk would have to “buy Fox” to get another season of the “Firefly” TV series with a green light, to which Musk replied: “Some sci-fi that actually includes sci-fi it would be wonderful. ” Another Twitter user wrote: “@elonmusk should buy the History Channel and make history,” to which Musk responded with a laughing emoji. Twitter has seen huge fluctuations in its user numbers since the acquisition, with politically left-wing accounts losing thousands of followers and right-wing users gaining traction.
