Caffea Arabica ~ a history of enslavement

The Dutch word for addiction is "verslaving", meaning: enslavement.

Text was copied from "Happy High Herbs - an easy read guide to natural highs and addiction solutions"
by Ray Thorpe (Australia 2009, 5th revised edition)

COFFEE ~ caffea arabica

It is believed that coffee was discovered in Yemen after a peasant noticed a striking sprightliness in his goats after eating the leaves and fruits of what is known as the Cafea arabica tree.
The tree itself may have originated in Abyssinia, the name 'coffee' coming from Kaffa, a province of abyssinia.
Arabs traded coffee around the known world.
The Dutch introduced the plant into Batavia and from there, one plant was presennted to Louis XIV in 1714.
All the coffee exported from Brazil originated from that single plant!
The use of coffee was widespread throughout Europe in the 16th century but not without some controversy;
as it was rightly considered a dangerous drug at the time, coffee suffered from first attempted prohibition and in the end an imposition of high taxes.
In 1652 the first coffee shop was opened in London, and from there caffeine addiction spread around the world.

An overdose of coffee can cause extreme agitation, an abnormal cardiac rhythm, seizures and even death!
Twenty five cups of coffee in a day has killed consumers.
Coffee is also addictive.

The availability and lack of controls on coffee really do show the hypocrisy of our drug laws and restrictions on relatively harmless herbs.

We all have an inalienable, fundamental human right to the freedom of choice over our own body chemistry.
(Dudley Leggett 2008)
... or do we?

Audio: Mr. Eddy's Theme ~ Barry Adamson ~ Lost Highway Soundtrack & fragment of Dance Macabre ~ C. Saint Saens

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[melbourneopera]

That's why human should develop a system of "self control" in order to against the addition......... Lack of control is a form of abuse.....