(August 14, 2020 at 8:09 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(August 14, 2020 at 1:56 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Caffeine is speed. It’s one of the low-polymer amphetamines. I’m sure they changed her addiction for legal reasons, but caffeine in pill form IS much more dangerous than coffee - it’s almost impossible to drink enough coffee to seriously injury yourself (the alkaloids in coffee will make you vomit before you get to that level), but it’s doable with caffeine tablets.You do have a point about the greater potential to overdose on caffeine pills, but it turns out that caffeine isn’t actually speed. Caffeine is a member of the methylxanthine class and amphetamine a phenethylamine. They are different classes with different molecular structures, though they are at least both stimulants.
Boru
I accept the correction.
Boru
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