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| | Blow: An American Epidemic, The Story Behind the Movies, Chapter 5 |
 | | Angelo Mariani, a Corsican entrepreneur who had moved to Paris, made a fortune after he added cocaine to Bordeaux wine. |
 | | His product, "Vin Mariani," became extremely popular in Europe and was imported to the United States. |
 | | "Vin Mariani" was a kind of model for John S. Pemberton, an Atlanta surgeon and chemist, who produced his own product: "French Wine Cola." (Pemberton, according to legend, created his Wine Cola as a last-ditch effort to cure a morphine addiction.) But soon after he introduced his new product, Pemberton had bad news. |
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