Caffeine must be one of, if not the, most used drug. It is vital to the operation of more or less every industry.
Most mathematicians will be in jail.
chocolate
soft drinks
and a few more things (and of course, all other products with chocolate in them. ice cream, candy bars etc)
would also be illegal.
I will become Caffeine version of Pablo Escobar 😉😂👊🏻
Including the hippos?
Wow
Can confirm, I chew nic gum when I don’t feel like taking my ADHD medication. Gives you a little kick and (at least for me, YMMV) isn’t addictive.
Nicotine is definitely addictive, but it’s not nearly as addictive as a whole cigarette - cigs have more than just nicotine that’s addictive and some of those things are more addictive than nicotine.
I think once upon a time alcohol was illegal somewhere? That’s what would happen. And I’d totally join a mafia
Ahem… the Coffia
This is the real answer. When they illegalized a drug that was already widespread and in common use, basically everyone simply became a criminal. There’s no reason to think people’s natures will have changed enough to suddenly want to be law-abiding citizens, easpecially when they’re on ceffeine withdrawl.
I don’t think it would be as widespread though, since you need specific caffeine producing plants in order to get it, as opposed to alcohol which can be made from just about anything. The growth and distribution would probably be more like Marijuana, if 90% of the country were addicted to it (so insanely expensive and a whole lot of also caffeine-dependent cops being paid off).
It is definitely not the right answer.
I can make wine, to prevent me from making wine you’d have to make literally every fruit illegal, and even then there are millions of wild apple trees in my country that you’d have to cut down. It’s impossible to prevent people from making alcohol.
In contrast to that, you can’t grow anything that produces caffeine in my country. I’d have to import it, and checking mail in customs is a hell of a lot easier than checking the vast areas of empty forest to see if I’m illegally growing apples.
Probably a lot more work related murders.
The governments probably stop functioning. Apocalypse ensues.
If people couldn’t find alternatives and caffeine wasn’t illegally available…
Many people who need coffee to function in the morning would lose their shit. Overworked people and workers with really long shifts will not be able to keep up. People would probably fall asleep at work.
Offices won’t get any work done before 10am. Soldiers would fall asleep at their posts.
Same thing that happens with most drugs. It’ll still get in, prices will skyrocket, and it’ll be laced with fentanyl so instead of enjoying a nice cup of coffee, you’ll die because the government tried to tell you what you can do to your own body again.
I’d just go back to cocaine. What is the question here?
Have you ever had coca tea? It’s amazing - way better than caffeine. It’s more gentle, but stronger - like it gives you more energy, but you don’t get a hard crash, it’s less likely to make it hard to sleep, plus it has all sorts of health benefits - being able to adjust to high altitude for one
Cocaine probably shouldn’t be sold at the drug stores, but it would be amazing if we treated it like caffeine - you need a license to buy it, but you can get the leaves or products made for it
Plus we could make a path to legitimize cartels and stop getting people killed over the the war on drugs, which would be nice
I would take a 30 minute nap every day after lunch.
That sounds lovely, let’s try that without making coffee illegal.
That day I will definitely not being in the office. I mean… It’s gonna be a wreckfest.
Have a headache for a few days. And reorganize everything to not start the workday before noon.
