Approximately 100 metric tons of coca leaves are imported to the Stepan Company each year (
Stepan Company - Wikipedia) under "special permission" from the DEA
Mallinckrodt receives not only all the cocaine from the Coca-Cola imports, but also imports opium from India (
Mallinckrodt - Wikipedia). In addition, this company also buys THC extracted from marijuana grown in the United States.
It's a reasonable question to wonder where all this cocaine and opium ends up going after it arrives at Mallinckrodt. The official explanation is that it's for "medical use." But let's do the math on this and see if that explanation holds water.
According to various websites that are readily found in any search engine, it takes roughly 300 grams of coca leaves to produce 1 gram of refined cocaine. This means that 100 metric tons of coca leaves (100 x 1000 kilograms, or 100,000 kilograms) can produce roughly 333 kilos of cocaine each year.
All this brings up the obvious question: What is the Mallinckrodt company doing with 333 kilos of cocaine each year? Throwing a big annual Christmas party or something? It is impossible to imagine that 333 kilos of cocaine are being used for "medical purposes" unless you have a very loose definition of "medical purposes."
To this day, Coca-Cola still imports coca leaves which are used to manufacture cocaine in the United States
To this day, Coca-Cola still imports coca leaves which are used to manufacture cocaine in the United States - NaturalNews.com