Caffeine must be one of, if not the, most used drug. It is vital to the operation of more or less every industry.

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What would happen if caffeine was made illegal?

black market

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Yup, people would be growing beans in their backyard like weed plants, and people would be learning to roast their own shit lol

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black market coffee

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why not black market coffe?

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Instant revolution.

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Crimes

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I think once upon a time alcohol was illegal somewhere? That’s what would happen. And I’d totally join a mafia

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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.

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Pretty much the same as with every illegal product. It would move to black market because as long as there is demand there will always be a supply.

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