Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta offers the first Coca-Cola in 1886. (contained cocaine)
On May 8, 1886, pharmacist John Stith Pemberton delivered a jug of his newest patent medicine, a tonic known as Coca-Cola, to Jacob's Pharmacy on Peachtree Street. The syrup was mixed with soda water, tasted good, and was sold for a nickel a glass. Coca-Cola was marketed as a drug that could "cure all nervous afflictions—sick headache, neuralgia, hysteria, melancholy, and so on..."
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