The Dark History of Coffee's Banning

Your morning coffee was once prescribed as medicine for insanity. In the 1600s,

European doctors believed coffee cured madness and forced patients into asylums where

they were strapped down and made to drink it for hours. The treatment often killed them.

Coffee houses were then banned across Europe as dangerous establishments. Governments feared

the beverage made people think too freely. But here's what they never told

you about why it was really banned.