The Null Device

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.

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