According to various news outlets across the world, 800 pounds of high quality cocaine have been found in a Coca-cola plant, near the Mediterranean France. The value of the bust ranges between $12.5-$56 million US dollars, which, according to the BBC, makes it one of the largest drug busts in France’s history. This particular warehouse was used for concentrates; the drugs were found stashed in crates of oranges.

The employees who found the cocaine immediately informed police, which suggests that the employees on the lowest part of the totem pole have no involvement. Investigations are underway despite this. According to the New York Times, Coca-Cola regional president Jean-Denis Malgras stated, “The first elements of the investigation have shown that employees are no way involved.” How anyone could know for sure is beyond me, considering the fact that Coca Cola is still one of the only corporations in the nation that makes legal use of the coca plant.

        Coca Cola still uses dried coca leaves in their product to this day. Stephan Company,  a manufacturer headquartered in Northfield, Ill., is the only commercial entity in the United States authorized by the Drug Enforcement Administration to import coca leaves, and process them into cocaine,  which come primarily from Peru. Approximately 100 metric tons of dried coca leaf are imported each year. The cocaine-free leaves are sold to The Coca-Cola Company, while the cocaine is sold to Mallinckrodt, a pharmaceutical firm, for medicinal purposes.

        So what you have here are three entities directly benefiting from each other’s existences, while also maintaining exclusive legal rights to one of the most addictive drugs on the face of the planet, not to mention the one of the ONLY drug that causes permanent brain damage. And they just happen to find $50 million dollars’ worth of prime fish scale chiva, and expect people to think that this was somehow an accident? While all parties responsible for the concoction of the most powerful/plentiful cocaine in the world are all sitting in the same board rooms? I guess when you have the DEA on your side, the truth is whatever you make it out to be.