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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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[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Buffalobuffalo@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 1 points 1 year ago

The us revolutionary War was more about taxes in general, not just tea.