Coffee is a Drug

I'm sitting here in a coffee shop doing my homework, sipping a cooling 12 oz plastic cup of Americano with no cream and a shot of Irish Cream syrup and I'm wandering about the culture surge that coffee has enjoyed over the past decades. Much like other nature-drugs that have made their way into the US, such as cocaine or that "m" drug (I'm only calling it that because I don't know how to spell it, so I'll refer to it as "m"), it was discovered in some foreign land and used by native locals who greatly utilized its altering benefits. Cocaine came from what was the Coca plant in South America and was used by natives of the region who had to trek longs journeys over mountains. It gave them stamina, curbed their hunger, and rotted their teeth because they would chewe it and hold it in their mouths and suck the juices that way...much like the method of chewing tobacco. When the wonder plant was discovered by explorers and scientists, cocaine was eventually discovered and extracted from it through a chemistry process. Cocaine is really only a small percentage of the actual Coca plant. Leave it to modern science to take something completely natural and create an addictive life, body, and mind destroyer from it. Cocaine was acclaimed as a miracle drug and was used by doctors world wide and some eccentric famous people. Edgar Allan Poe was one of them, which explains a lot. It was even used in soft drinks. Hence the name: Coca-Cola. My point is, and not that I always have a point or if there's even a point to this-I'm just emptying the overflowing container of ideas in my head that the introduction of coffee to my system accentuates, why is coffee not considered a drug? It has mind and body-altering effects. It is addictive. If you think it's not addictive, then drink a large coffee every morning for a few months and then take a few mornings off. Crankiness, headaches, and even body aches will consume you. But it's not a dangerous drug like cocaine or any of the other ones out there, but it's also in a very natural form. No chemistry has been done to it to extract a "miracle drug". It's just a bean. It's much like the original Coca plant in that it energizes and motivates great feats...minus the whole teeth rot issue of course. It's also a multi-million, or even billion, dollar industry. And if it was ever made illegal there would be a lot of angry yuppies. Pretty much everyone would be angry for that matter. Millions of people would wake up with raging headaches and bad attitudes and would have to skip work for the day. The result of this would be banks closing for the day, schools closing for the day, workplaces everywhere would have to close for the day because no one would show up due to the mass occurrence of coffee withdrawals. The economy would collapse. And we just can't have that happening. Anyways, I'm going to finish my coffee and do some more homework.