Feeling a little extra boost from that Red Bull? It could be the traces of cocaine.
About a year ago, the makers of Red Bull, the famous caffeine-loaded energy drink, decided to come out with a soda, unsurprisingly named Red Bull Cola. The shared name implied the same big kick. But could the cola’s boost — supposedly “100% natural” — come from something else? Officials in Germany worry that they’ve found the answer — cocaine.
You’d have to drink about 12,000 liters (in other words, one overnight Twitter binge) of Red Bull to really impact your health. And there are those who (including Red Bull execs, President Evo Morales of Bolivia, and everyone alive in the 80s) don’t see a little cocaine as a big deal at all.
