ORIGINAL: 50+AirYears
Coke might give a sugar high, but it's not a neurotoxin like alcohol. The sugar effect is only supposed to last for something like 12-15 minutes. The alcohol effect is measureable for hours.
Ok, use coffee as the example then, the caffein lasts for hours. Then of course, there are the numerous OTC cold medicines that are finding there way into some state driving regs... and so on...and so on