Here's what the good folks at snopes2.com have to say about
the Coca-Cola/cocaine connection:
"How much cocaine was in that "mere trace" [of cocaine]is
impossible to say, but we do know that by 1902 it was as
little as 1/400 of a grain of cocaine per ounce of syrup.
Coca-Cola didn't become completely cocaine-free until 1929,
but there was scarcely any of the drug left in the drink by
then. . . . [T]he amount of ecgonine [an alkaloid in the coca
leaf that could be synthesized to create cocaine] was
infinitesimal: no more than one part in 50 million. In an
entire year's supply of 25-odd million gallons of Coca-Cola
syrup, Heath figured, there might be six-hundredths of an
ounce of cocaine."
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