Brazil finds coffee protein with morphine effect

Yahoo! News / Agence France-Presse ^ | January 24, 2015

[2ndDivisionVet]

Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian scientists have discovered a protein in coffee that has effects similar to pain reliever morphine, researchers at the state University of Brasilia (UnB) and state-owned Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation Embrapa said Saturday.

Embrapa said its genetics and biotech division, teaming up with UnB scientists, had discovered "previously unknown protein fragments" with morphine-like effects in that they possess "analgesic and mildly tranquilizing" qualities.

The company added tests on laboratory mice showed that the opioid peptides, which are naturally occurring biological molecules, appeared to have a longer-lasting effect on the mice than morphine itself....

[Ronin]

Something die hard coffee drinkers have known for decades.

[libertarian27]

Oh no, no coffee in the car then? /s

[C210N]

So, maybe coffee will go the same way as Original coca-cola?

[Viking2002]

Look for the FDA to start regulating coffee as a Schedule II CDS in 5....4....3....2....

[yarddog]

My parents for as long as I can remember always kept a coffee pot or Mr. Coffee going all day every day.

[Veto!]

Explains, perhaps, why I can drink 2 cups of coffee a day for that rise-and-shine effect, but a third puts me directly to sleep.

Same with my daughter.

[dfwgator]

[windcliff]

Me too.

[RansomOttawa]

Brazilian scientists have discovered a protein in coffee that has effects similar to pain reliever morphine

OK, so it's not crack then? Good.

[Rodamala]

Something die hard coffee drinkers have known for decades.

I have been self-medicating with coffee and unfiltered cigarettes for decades...

[GOP Poet]

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[Excellence]

Well I’ll be danged. I was of the opinion that coffee enhanced the effectiveness of analgesics, but never imagined it was so direct.

[equaviator]

[Ditter]

I never tried that 3rd cup of coffee. I check it out. I have become so sensitive to caffeine that I can't even have any after 1pm or I will stay awake that night till dawn so I doubt that it will have the same effect on me that it has on you.

[JPG]

Oh, sh**, Quick...hide the coffee!

[Nifster]

precisely.....waiting for the government to ban it outright

[Ken H]

Coffee was initially used for spiritual reasons. At least 1,100 years ago, traders brought coffee across the Red Sea into Arabia (modern-day Yemen), where Muslim dervishes began cultivating the shrub in their gardens. At first, the Arabians made wine from the pulp of the fermented coffee berries. This beverage was known as qishr (kisher in modern usage) and was used during religious ceremonies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee

Coffee house in Palestine, ca 1900

[TomGuy]

So, soon we will need a prescription and 2 forms of ID — one being a photo ID — to buy a cup or a can of coffee.

[Covenantor]

For a split second on my BB I thought, “Palestinian with an RPG circa 1900, WTH?”