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Considering that alcohol is legal and THC is not (federally), I would question whether there is actually any logic behind the fact that caffeine is legal. Rathe
by jjeaff 3y ago
Considering that alcohol is legal and THC is not (federally), I would question whether there is actually any logic behind the fact that caffeine is legal. Rather, it just happens to have made it under the radar long enough to become too ubiquitous to outlaw.
- colechristensen 3y agoLook into the history. Caffeine wasn't under the radar, it didn't make the cut when drugs started do be banned in the early 1900s. It didn't make the cut because nobody abused it or formed a serious addiction to it, because you can't. Take too much and you feel like you're dying. Coca-cola = coca leaves + kola nuts = cocaine + caffeine Caffeine was everywhere too in the era of drug concoctions. Today's soda's were the health tonics of the 1800s. 7-up had lithium in it, the drug used to treat some bipolar cases. The drugs that survived public use were the ones that were paradoxically safer and more dangerous at the same time, depending on how you measure it.
- jjeaff 3y agoThen why did cocaine get put on the list? As far as overdosing, it seems to work the same. You will feel really bad before you get to a fatal dose. Many claim it is also not highly addictive. At least, not in the way that opiates are addictive, but more like how people are addicted to caffeine.