I think if you banned coffee, most countries would have legit riots of not revolutions. The people will put up with a lot, but not that.
My first thought reading the question "blood in the streets". Coffee has been around for hundreds of years and is deeply cultural in many parts of the world. I don't see any reality where that could happen.
Most mathematicians will be in jail.
I think productivity would increase after about a month of global caffeine withdrawal. Plus heart attacks would probably decrease
Caffeine as an additive to drinks is weird.
Its a bittering agent. Though I'll admit the mild psychotropic effects are probably why we use it instead of the myriad other things that are just as bitter and probably safer to consume overall.
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.
Instant revolution.
Perhaps some people would stop punishing their own bodies for the benefit of their employer.
Ha, I drink way more coffee on the weekends than I do during the work week. It's definitely a recreational drug for me.
The entire premise of this question seems insane. The only industry in which caffeine is vital is probably the coffee industry.
Yeah, there would be a black market and what not but that doesn't mean the world would stop turning off supply ran out.
Don’t forget many types of tea have similar levels of caffeine. And US started a whole war over a tax on tea much less a ban.
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.
Everyone would be miserable at first, so you wouldn’t want to be out in public for the first week or so, then after the withdrawal subsided it would be more or less back to normal. I went off caffeine for a while, once you get over the hump you realize you don’t actually need it as much as you thought.
Anyone who comes between me and my tea leaves is a dead man.
Especially on a Monday.
Have a headache for a few days. And reorganize everything to not start the workday before noon.
Probably a lot more work related murders.
I'd have a rough few weeks coming off my 8 espressos a day habit but I'd get over it eventually
I consider a double shot the minimum portion - do you have 8 of those?
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