Some part-time cake-decorating teachers in Visalia, California had similar intentions, having concocted a makeshift morning-after suppository made from Coca-Cola, red food coloring and trace amounts of battery acid.
We've downed Old Style beers at a great old dive bar, the L&L Tavern (3207 North Clark Street), where you can buy a legal spirit made from distilled coca leaves, the raw ingredient for cocaine.
One way to do this, locals will tell you, is to drink mate de coca (coca tea), made from leaves of the coca plant and consumed across the Andes, especially in Bolivia, Peru and Argentina.
In La Paz, coca is sold openly, as are a number of products made from it, including coca tea (the national beverage), syrups, jam, chewing gum, and toothpastes.
Sipping Coca Brynco, a green soft drink made here from coca leaf, he vigorously defended his plan to lower fuel subsidies, calling them "a cancer".
Cocaine is harder to ship but much easier to produce than gold; making it from coca leaves is about as complicated as making corn syrup from corn.
In one Italian restaurant in La Paz, diners can even order coca spaghetti made from a mixture of wheat flour and coca leaf.
Made from the residue of coca leaves, paco is widely considered by Argentines the most dangerous and addictive drug on the market more so than heroine or crack.
Made from the residue of coca leaves, paco is widely considered by Argentines to be the most dangerous and addictive drug on the market – more so than heroin or crack.
