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Ever since the Stone Age, human beings have been ingesting caffeine. Early cultures discovered caffeine's ability to stimulate awareness and mitigate fatigue by chewing certain plants. It took some time for various cultures to develop methods like steeping caffeine generating plants in boiling water to extract higher levels of caffeine.
To learn about this drug's unique history as both an important accessory to religious rituals and its over all expansion to its present world wide use as the most widely accepted and used addictive psychoactive substance make sure to peruse MyAddiction.com's unique Caffeine Timeline.
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Caffeine Use Begins Around 3,000 B.C.
There is a legend in China that the Emperor Shennong who ruled around 3,000 B.C.E. discovered the power of caffeine by accident when a few leaves fell into some boiling water.
600 B.C.
Cocoa comes into use and eventually forms an ancient Mayan drink spiced with chili peppers, vanilla, and achiote called Xocoatl
9th Century A.D: Caffeine Consumption and the Roots of Addiction Expand
Coffee beans are only available in their native Ethiopia (supposedly discovered by a goat herder), but already in the same century the noted Persian doctor al-Razi makes note of the effects of the coffee bean.
1454: Coffee brings Caffeine to Yemen
The Mufti of Aden begins to use coffee
15th Century: The Sufis Get Hooked on Caffeine
The Sufis begin to use coffee because of its high quantity of caffeine to help them stay up during prayers.
1587
Malaye Jaziri records the debates and history associated with coffee.
End of 16th Century: Europe Discovers Coffee
17th Century: Coffee Comes to Europe
Many coffee houses open up across Europe providing a special role in societal interaction. At first most Europeans call coffee "Arabian Wine."
1652: Coffee Comes to London
The first coffee houses open in London.
1700: Chocolate Makes it Big
By 1700 chocolate's popularity soars throughout Europe
1819: Chemist Isolates Pure Caffeine
Fredrich Ferdinand Runge from Germany isolated pure caffeine.
1911: Cola Under Fire
The U.S. Govt. alleges the caffeine in Coca-Cola is a risk to health and confiscates 40 barrels and 20 kegs of Coca-Cola syrup in Tennessee.
1912: It's Official-Caffeine is Addictive
The U.S. House of Representatives amends the Pure Food and Drug Act and adds caffeine to the list of "habit forming"substances, making it an addictive substance.
1927: Caffeine is Located in Tea
Oudry finds "theine"or caffeine in Tea.
Caffeine Use in the Present
Caffeine is the most consumed psychoactive substance in the world.
End Caffeine Timeline
