Coca-Cola was first marketed in the 1860s as a patent medicine, designed to offer the energy boost of cocaine without the vices of alcohol. The new beverage was invigorating and popular. Today, however, cocaine is not just banned but widely demonized. This is an example of: a. mainstream culture once approving of behaviors that are now considered deviant. b. the tendency of the United States to become more puritanical. c. the emergence of a counterculture. d. conflict between the economically powerful and the rest of society.

This is an example of: a. mainstream culture once approving of behaviors that are now considered deviant

Explanation:

From this question we can see that cocaine was once seen and used differently as it is regarded today. At the time when coca-cola was made, the use of cocaine as a legal and common component in medicine was popular. But today cocaine is contraband, an illicit and illegal drug in almost all countries of the world and people are jailed for being in possession of it. This agrees with the first option that mainstream culture once agreed to certain behaviors that are regarded as deviant today.

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