I haven’t in years, but I used to as a kid or as a young adult when I would drink 3-4 cups in a row. I also don’t get a caffeine buzz from anything anymore. I can only feel it when I have way too much or too little. But a lot of tea has more caffeine than coffee by weight, just has a much larger content variation, so it depends what kind, where it was grown, the conditions, how it was processed, etc. The L-theanine in tea also dampens the stimmy caffeine effects a good bit.

Yeah there may be, but to be honest I would do it regardless. Also I feel like I see studies going one way then the other pretty frequently and thats not why I do. I just love it.

Yeah its more efficient for sure, but coffee/tea/other caffeine producing plants have more alkaloids than just caffeine in them. Pure THC feels different than cannabis, plain nicotine is different than tobacco, etc. Yeah it will do the job, but elements of the experience are missing. Ever notice that the caffeine buzz from tea feels different than from coffee? Its not just the amount. Also, coffee and tea are tasty and come with a ritual that in my opinion is just as important as the drug itself. Pulling a shot of espresso and sipping on it does more for me in the morning than just chugging something caffeinated. And you can control the amount of caffeine you get to a certain degree. Most Arabica coffee contains close to 0.5%-1% caffeine by weight after roasting, so I know my shot of espresso made with 18g of beans is going to be a little under 130mg of caffeine on average accounting for less than perfect extraction.

Glad to know I’m in the clear with my little 40%. Or is my mental so disordered that its come full circle back to an actual keyboard?

There is actually a hallucinogenic plant that looks kind of similar to mint, but I think they’re referring to the fact that mint chokes other plants out and just sticks around and keeps coming back.