Cocaine, Coca-Cola, and the Government’s Dirty Hands

From the back alleys to the boardrooms, the story of cocaine and Coca-Cola isn’t just about a drink — it’s about power, addiction, and corruption. In this episode, we pull the curtain back on one of America’s most famous brands, its shadowy early history, and how systems that profit from addiction keep spinning today. From the drug war hypocrisy to government deals that protect the powerful, this is raw, unfiltered truth the mainstream won’t touch.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to the Grind, Real Talk, Real Life. I'm
your host, and today, uh, we're gonna rattle some cages
this episode, Tittle says it all cocaine, Coca Cola, and
the government's dirty hands. Let's get into it. People think
conspiracy theories are just folks with ten full hats. No,

(00:25):
sometimes it's not a theory, it's just history. They don't
want you to know. Let's start with a Coca Cola.
You have the drinks you grab at any gas station
back in the l late eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds,
it really had cocaine in it. That wasn't even hidden.
It was advertised as they picked me up a nerve

(00:49):
tonic you get a wired off of soda. And this
wasn't just a drop or two. It had enough to
give you a noticeable buzz. They didn't take the cocaine
out because it was immoral. They took it out because
it started making them look bad. But here's the kicker.
Where did all that cocaine come from? Now we're getting

(01:12):
into part two. This is the part they'll try to
tell you it's debunk but if you follow the trail,
it's ugly. The US government has had its fingerprints all
over the drug trade for decades. The CIA ran operations
in South America, and in the nineteen eighties the Iran

(01:34):
Contra scandal blew the lid off something they still don't
want to talk about. They were bringing cocaine into the
United States, flooding poor neighborhoods, and then turning around and
locking people up for the same thing they helped supply.
That's not justice, that's a setup. Think about it. First,

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they make it socially acceptable in things like Coca cola.
Then they criminalize it, demonize the people who use it,
and build an entire prison industry around locking those people up.
Who benefits not the people, not the communities. It's the

(02:18):
same system that profits off your downfall. And yet here
we are in twenty twenty five and they still act
like it's shocking to say the government is involved in
the drug game. But history doesn't lie. And if they
did it before, what makes you think they they're not
still doing it in the same other way, in some

(02:41):
other way. We can just sip on history like it's
a sweet drink and pretend it's all good. The truth
is bitter, and until we start calling it out they'll
keep playing the same game over and over. This is
the grind, real talk, real life, stay woke, stay loud,

(03:05):
and don't let them feed you a lie in a
pretty bottle mhm