According to a statement made to Marijuana Moment this week, beverage giant Coca-Cola does not have any plans to enter the CBD market.

The rumor of Coca-Cola making such a move began with a man named Gabor on YouTube, who goes by the name the Blind Guy. According to Gabor, he had obtained a prototype of a childproof can of Coke and claims he has insider knowledge of Coca-Cola’s intent to launch a line of CBD infused drinks. This development would be in partnership with Canadian marijuana producer Aurora Cannabis.

In a video shared on YouTube recently, the Blind Guy, said his father is an engineer for a company that “produces bottling and capping machines” for pharmaceutical and food businesses.

“Recently he was approached by Coca-Cola in Canada to design a machine that puts a childproof cap on cans of Coca-Cola,” he said. “In Canada, Coca-Cola is coming out with a new line of Coca-Cola that contains CBD extracts—pretty much cannabis-based drugs.”

“Obviously, they don’t want little kids popping open those cans and drinking them…so my dad was tasked with designing a cap that will prevent little kids from opening these cans of CBD Coca-Cola,” he said.

Gabor later deleted the video from his YouTube account and also deleted the channel itself, as well as his Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey has said this past summer, “There’s been no change in my position, which is: there’s nothing happening. We want to sell drinks that people can drink each day. So it’s not like you have something once,” he told CNBC last year. “You have one a day. And if you can’t cross [off] those three things of legal, safe and consumable, it’s not an ingredient that’s going to work for us.”


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