On May 8,
staff and students at Amherst University arrived to find a
campus-wide ban on coffee, aimed at stamping out caffeine use.
Signs on campus announced the ban, a press conference was held on the dangers
of the drug caffeine, and black-market coffee dealers sold espresso beans to
addicts jonesing for their fix. The whole thing was an art project, organised
by a student and drug policy critic named Andrew Epstein, who persuaded the
administration to go along with it.