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>Weirdly enough, Cannabis doesn't really go around much.
>Instead, everyone drinks Black Blood of the Universe. (A form of
>coffee made by a... device based on the Viennese Triple
>Cold Extraction apparatus and using a Turkish grind. Yes, this is a
>shout-out to Funranium Labs.)
>
>You would think that with this much caffeine going around, everyone
>would be bouncing off the walls... But no. Some do - mostly people
>who have married into the family, but after a few months they simply
>become functional caffeine addicts. (It is a rite of passage, in
>fact, for the newcomer to the family to be tricked into drinking
>BBotU, and their following antics be recorded for posterity.) It's
>suspected that there is a very strong dominant trait for ADHD in the
>family's gene pool because of this. (Among other bits of anecdotal
>evidence...)

As someone who has what a doctor once called “long term biochemical damage as the result of caffeine abuse”, I see this happening.

Oh, the effect? Caffeine has no perceptible effect on my neurometabolism anymore. I can drink a 20 oz of MTN DEW Zero at 9 pm and settle in for bed at 10:30 with no effect. I do this to improve the effacy of my pain meds (hello tibiofemoral osteoarthritis.)

(Apparently six calendar months of averaging six liters of Jolt Cola a day, usually to wash down Tastykake cupcakes or Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, has lasting effects on your system. But when you’re 19, the words of Rush still speak well.)

(Those words, are “We are young, wandering the face of the Earth, wondering what our dreams might be worth, knowing that we’re only immortal for a limited time.” Released a couple of years after that part of my life. That’s right. I’m old.)

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