A lot of people are questioning the coroners conclusions because they don't believe that the dose could be harmful. But he makes it clear that the issue is not

A lot of people are questioning the coroners conclusions because they don't believe that the dose could be harmful. But he makes it clear that the issue is not the dose but the speed at which the drinks were consumed: >"We're not saying that it was the total amount of caffeine in the system, it was just the way that it was ingested over that short period of time, and the chugging of the energy drink at the end was what the issue was with the cardiac arrhythmia." Energy drinks weren't all that popular until recently, we we can expect that we are only now going to see the effects of high levels of caffeine intake on the general population.