A Morphine-Addicted Confederate Pharmacist Invented the World's Biggest Drink

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John Stith Pemberton, wounded in the Civil War and hooked on morphine, began hunting for a safer substitute — and ended up inventing Coca-Cola. He marketed it as a cure for morphine addiction, nervous disorders, headaches, indigestion, and even impotence, selling it as a temperance beverage after Georgia passed…

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