caffeine

caffeine also caffein (kà-fên´, kàf´ên´, kàf´ê-în)  noun
A bitter white alkaloid, C8H10N4O2, often derived from tea or coffee and used in medicine chiefly as a mild stimulant and to treat certain kinds of headache.

[German Kaffein (from Kaffee, coffee) and or French caféine, both from French café, coffee. See café.]
- caf´feinat´ed (kàf´e-nâ´tîd) adjective

Caffeine

Caffeine, chemical found in plants such as coffee, tea, and cacao. It is also present in most cola beverages. The drug increases the blood pressure, stimulates the central nervous system, promotes urine formation, and stimulates the action of the heart and lungs. Caffeine is used in treating migraine, increases the potency of analgesics such as aspirin, and can relieve asthma by widening the bronchial airways. Caffeine is produced commercially chiefly as a by-product in making decaffeinated coffee.
 

caffeine (noun)

tonic: caffeine, nicotine, alcohol

Food and Drink, 1966

Cola drink bottlers and canners receive FDA dispensation not to list caffeine as an ingredient. Cola drinks generally have 4 milligrams of caffeine per fluid ounce, coffee 12 to 16.

Caffeine is a "base analogue" of Adenine, and in fact can sometimes be incorporated into a growing DNA chain, instead of Adenine.  Caffeine is a weak mutagen, for this reason.

• 604 track _Muta-Gen (Thermoplasmic Mix)_ MP3 (160k) by EON Project off of _Brain Filter_ CDb on Transient (1998)
• track _Caffeine_ MP3 by Dillinger Escape Plan
• lo fi indie pop track _Coffee & Tea_ MP3 by Cessna off of _The Loves Longings & Regrets Of Cessna_
• progressive funk metal track _Caffeine_ MP3 (192k) by Faith No More off of _Angel Dust_ on Slash (1992)
• post rock track _Caffeine Or Me?_ MP3 (160k) by Karate off of s/t 12" on Southern (1996)
• straight edge spoof track _Caffeine_ MP3 by Crucial Youth off of _The Posi-Machine_ 12" on New Red Archives
• 604 track _Mutagen_ MP3 by Digitalis off of _The Third State_ 12"x2 on Matsuri Productions (1997)
• sample: "they could start getting into our systems and screwing up our genes like DNA.  recombining and changing us.  of course, this is just the same way those rocket ships landed thousands of years ago so those spacemen could mate with monkeys and apes and create the human race... it's happening now!" - Veronica Cartwright as Nancy Bellicec from _Invasion Of The Body Snatchers_ (1978); "splice... splice... splice..." 

basically, our current  economy legitimizes this legal stimulant and gives it away free at the workplace.  the effect is to "stimulate" you into being more efficient and productive, "stimulating" the economy.  this is why pot, which relaxes you, heals you (the medical INDUSTRY cannot prescribe it yet), and makes you less violent (no need for the paid police force to break up fights.  that's why alcohol is okay and perfectly legal). ecstasy makes you happy and communal, and touchy feely.  nothing dangerous or money making in that. ILLEGAL. hallucinogens takes away eyeballs from advertisements, distracting you from billboards and tv commercials.  not to mention the boundary dissolving effects it has on one's perception - how the current system is so utterly backwards at this point.  can't have that. ILLEGAL.   the legality and illegality of chemicals has nothing to do with health.  it has everything to do with taxation and money.  if we become complacent, then we don't work, or even want to. (that is why power suited cokeheads pay exorbitant amounts to snort shit up their nose - so they can feel more confident and productive).  luckily for me, i don't like working, and i don't even smoke pot.  what i do like is time to myself, without some middle guy coming in and swiping a share away from me.  my time is spent NOT making money which takes it out of the current system.  when i go to work, i load up on the stimulant caffeine, and labor for a few  hours. when i go play, i load up on more interesting visionary substances, currently illegal (how can anyone make a fungus or plant illegal? it's like making poison ivy illegal) but incredibly safe compared to crap like beer, alcohol (i don't touch that shit - i equate it with heroin), cocaine...basically all government sponsored and imported drugs.   i definitely have my personal decisions, and that's just that - personal goddamn decisions.  so go get stoned, drunk, and shoot up if you have to.  make your choices. no one can completely abstain from drugs.   - @Om* 3/25/00

Coffee has become a religious experience.  At least that is how the folks at Starbucks and the Family Christian Center in Munster, Indiana feel.  The church is the first in the U.S. to open a Starbucks in its lobby. Religion has always been drug pushers of the legal stimulant caffeine.

Caffeine Content Of Popular Drinks
 

Soft Drinks

12-ounce beverage - milligrams

Jolt ... 71.2
Pepsi One ... 55.5
Mountain Dew ... 55.0
Mountain Dew Code Red ... 55.0
Diet Mountain Dew ... 55.0
Kick Citrus ... 54.0
Mellow Yellow ... 52.8
Surge ... 51.0
Tab ... 46.8
Diet Coke ... 45.6
Shasta Cola ... 44.4
Shasta Cherry Cola ... 44.4
Shasta Diet Cola ... 44.4
RC Cola ... 43.0
Diet RC ... 43.0
Dr. Pepper ... 41.0
Diet Dr. Pepper ... 41.0
Diet Sunkist Orange ... 41.0
Mr. Pibb ... 40.0
Sugar-Free Mr. Pibb ... 40.0
Sunkist Orange ... 40.0
Storm ... 38.0
Big Red ... 38.0
Pepsi-Cola ... 37.5
Pepsi Twist ... 37.5
Diet Pepsi ... 36.0
Diet Pepsi Twist ... 36.0
Aspen ... 36.0
Coca-Cola Classic ... 34.0
Cherry Coke ... 34.0
Diet Cherry Coke ... 34.0
Snapple Flavored Teas (Reg. or Diet) ... 31.5
Canada Dry Cola ... 30.0
A&W Creme Soda ... 29.0
Nestea Sweet Iced Tea ... 26.5
Nestea Unsweetened Iced Tea ... 26.0
Barq's Root Beer ... 23.0
A&W Diet Creme Soda ... 22.0
Snapple Sweet Tea ... 12.0
Lipton Brisk, All Varieties ... 9
 
 
 

                                                                   Other Beverages

                                                 8-ounce Beverage
                                                                                           milligrams
                                                 Coffee, Drip
                                                                                           115-175
                                                 Coffee, Brewed
                                                                                           80-135
                                                 Coffee, Espresso (2 ounces)
                                                                                           100
                                                 Coffee, Instant
                                                                                           65-100
                                                 Tea, iced
                                                                                           47
                                                 Tea, brewed, imported brands (avg.)
                                                                                           60
                                                 Tea, brewed, U.S. brands (avg.)
                                                                                           40
                                                 Tea, instant
                                                                                           30
                                                 Tea, green
                                                                                           15
                                                 Hot cocoa
                                                                                           14
                                                 Coffee, Decaf, brewed
                                                                                           3-4
                                                 Coffee, Decaf, instant
                                                                                           2-3

• gateway drug
• coffee
• tea
• chocolate
• prohibition
• Jolt Cola - "all the sugar and twice the caffeine"
• Coca Cola

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