Caffeine is a wonderful, wonderful thing, but it’s only wonderful in moderation.  Given the proliferation of caffeinated products, like caffeine marshmallows and caffeine-laced alcohol, it’s no wonder that people are becoming immune to the dangers that caffeine may pose in megadoses.  We’re not just talking dangerous to others via caffeine psychosis, we’re talking dangerous to yourself:  in April, 23-year-old Michael Bedford died as a result of consuming spoonfuls of caffeine powder with the strength of 70 Red Bulls.

Apparently, you can just buy bags of powdered, concentrated caffeine online, and that’s what Bedford did.  He then took the caffeine to a party, ate a few spoonfuls of it, then immediately had an adverse reaction.  At the reading of the inquest last week, coroner Dr. Nigel Chapman intoned, “This should serve as a warning that caffeine is so freely available on the Internet but so lethal if the wrong dosage is taken.”

In layman’s terms, don’t eat powdered caffeine because you might die from it.

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