Citing "health concerns" — like baseball pitchers dropping dead and stuff — the FDA has banned ephedra. Ephedra has been the hippie-crack of the upper family for a while now — certainly better than coffee, but nowhere near as harsh as meth. Manhattan's law firms and women's magazine publishers are said to be in an emergency meeting with pharmaceutical companies to produce a perk-ifying substance for release in early 2004.
No More OTC Trucker Speed [Night in the Big City]

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