**Response to @TrungTPhan:**

The US soon banned cocaine and, in 1922, it blocked coca imports.

Coca-Cola was ready and its lobbyist negotiated a special exemption. A New Jersey-based firm called Maywood Chemical Works was permitted to import coca leaves (mostly from Peru)

Maywood's #1 customer? Coca-Cola.

https://nitter.moomoo.me/TrungTPhan/status/1633883786311270401#m