Can You Overdose From Caffeine?

Yes.  As a 17 year old girl from England can attest to, as she drank seven double measures of espresso and began to hyperventilate and have heart palpitations.  Certainly it seems that limiting ones intake of caffeine is a wise idea.  Despite the fact that my own family owns a small coffee shop chain, I've probably only had a half dozen cups in my life.  I still intake caffeine but only in small doses when it's in chocolate or the occasional soda or tea.  I've thought of stopping all together but I feel that the effects on my body with respect to the small doses of caffeine are not quite the same as small doses of alcohol or drugs.  I'd like to know where other people stand on the issue of caffeine and Straight Edge, so drop a comment with your opinion.

Why Advertising Execs Should Be Shot Like Drug Dealers

So a new energy drink has hit the streets to give people masive amounts of un-needed caffeine and sugar. SxE by the core definition doesn't say that caffeine should not be consumed, but in the amounts that energy drinks provide goes beyond moderation (get the joke here relating to a previous post?) I drink beverages with caffeine but understand that it's a drug that can affect your body. I'd rather not drink caffeine but I enjoy tea and some teas have it, and it's not worth it to me to avoid all teas for the amount of caffeine I consume with it. But I digress.

My main point here is about the new energy drink Cocaine. WTF! is up with the name. I think it's a horrible idea to use a name that is the same as a dangerous illegal drug. I can't comprehend how someone would actually think it was a wise idea to have their product be related by name to something that like that. I wonder if they'll start to refer to their shipping trucks as mules as they use the term dealer to refer to merchants. Once that happens can I shoot dealers of Cocaine? Can't wait to see who will be their celebrity spokesperson, Lindsay Lohan perhaps, she always looks like she's coke'd up.

*Note: I do not condone actual shooting of ad execs.