Re:High Crime in the Cocaine Industry
by jrochkind1 on Monday October 15, 2018 @12:21PM
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That's like saying fentanyl isn't particularly dangerous, because you aren't going to OD on the level that is pleasurable. Not how it works. If the difference in dose between what you would have wanted and a toxic dose is relatively small, that makes it dangerous.
Pure or high-concentration caffeine is quite clearly dangerous.
> That's like saying fentanyl isn't particularly dangerous, because you aren't going to OD on the level that is pleasurable.
It's actually the total opposite of what I'm saying. I'm saying that caffeine specifically is less likely to do that than cocaine (or fentanyl).
> Pure or high-concentration caffeine is quite clearly dangerous.
This is another argument I did not make.
The mechanism of ingest only matters if the latency of effect is so great that a user goes past the point of pleasurable effect. Drinking or snorting cocaine has negative physiological effect closer to the point of pleasurable pyschological effect than does caffeine.