[JediGirl]

i don't consider caffiene, nicotine, sugar, chocolate, etc. to be intoxicants...and i'd be happy to see alcohol outlawed.

Dude. No way. I was drinking 2-3 20 oz. bottles of diet coke a day up until Friday because on Thursday I was so jittery from the caffeine i could hardly sit still. The next day i didn't drink any. I had the most awful headache that not even Tylenol or asprin could relieve. I was lethargic. Caffeine is absolutely an intoxicant. I've stopped smoking marijuana for days, weeks and never had anything close to that happen. Stop caffeine for a day and I'm in for a treat. Same would apply to many people I'm sure.

[northislander]

I am defining an intoxicant as a chemical compound capable of producing narcotic effects broadly understood as drunkeness. I am not interested in discussing your particular reactions to common food substances or nicotine as those are not reasonably related to the subject of this discussion.

[weikel]

Don't use pot but I occasionally use lotsa caffiene( I don't normally use any at all) to stay up for test and I'll agree. Use caffiene for one day then stop and you get a headache from hell.

[WOSG]

Dude. No way. I was drinking 2-3 20 oz. bottles of diet coke a day up until Friday because on Thursday I was so jittery from the caffeine i could hardly sit still. The next day i didn't drink any. I had the most awful headache that not even Tylenol or asprin could relieve. I was lethargic. Caffeine is absolutely an intoxicant.

Then lay off it! Jeez, 60oz, forget about your brain effects, you're going to be killing your bladder at that rate!

Withdrawal is one thing but as for "intoxicant" term, I've yet to here of people getting charged for "driving under influence of caffeine". You think people should be? LOL.