It says nothing about effects of prolonged use by normals, actually. Mental or physical. I checked.
Well, in path to power it says "•• 160-Hour Energy Drink: A vial of liquid that allows the drinker to go a week with only a single hour of sleep per night without penalties.". So I feel at least somewhat justified in my assertion.
My brother in Christ, if coffee could keep you up for a week, it would be a controlled substance.
If it didn't have any other effects, no, it wouldn't, and it would almost certainly be near mandatory to drink it in the modern world.
Even the Sorcery books either call it a no-sleep potion or an energy drink. Nobody calls it coffee.
Coffee is an energy drink.
I get it, you disagree here, strongly. I do too. This is not a recreational lifestyle drink. This is, at most, an energy drink. Easily interpreted as maigcally more efficient coffee.
How do you define drugs? Lifestyle drugs at that? Is water a drug? You need to drink it habitually, or you'll suffer and die. Is food a drug? If well-made, it brings sensual pleasure and, again, it's addictive. Is sugar a drug? At least some
medical studies suggest so.
You like to go to Molly's character. Let's ask ourselves - what would Molly consider a drug based on her experience? As far as I can tell, her definition is likely to be something along the lines of "a chemical substance that, when consumed, induces altered state of consciousness, and is addiction-forming", where addiction would almost certainly be meant "causes withdrawl symptoms if consumption is stopped". "Super coffee" doesn't fall under either of those parameters. It doesn't induce altered state of consciousness, as far as we know from description. You compare it to Met, but that's wrong. It doesn't make you more active, or manic, or energetic. It just suppresses the need for sleep (or, rather, it makes the sleep more efficient, from the looks of it). And it isn't addiction forming. At most, Molly might associate "no sleep potion" with steroids, since yes, they do behave similarly in a way (steroids of certain types let you train for longer, while this potion lets you go without sleep for longer). But her drug experience wasn't with steroids at all. It would be, at most, an academic association. Enough to prompt additional precautions, like making such potion and using the Crown on it to check it for long-term side effects / addictiveness, and to consult Dresden and Bob, and maybe talk to father Forthil. But certainly not enough to instinctively disabuse the notion of using it habitually.
You're not getting that car down into Undertown to store combat servitors inside it so they can be active indefinitely; at most you can fit 2-4 small servitors in the trunk without drawing undue comment.
Why not? Lydia goes to Last Station, uses Carriage of the Ankou. Loads it with combat servitors. Leaves it there. Then summons it the battlefield. As long as the station itself is large enough to house the car, the Carriage is usable.
They exist, they do bad shit. What do you expect the Librarians to do about it?
Point federal investigators at them. Like, fairly sure at least some of their medical research is straight up illegal, if nothing else.
EDIT:
There is certainly a universe where Molly makes that five day awake potion and downs it every five days, though it should also be noted that other people might not be so easily persuaded that it is all fine.
Indeed. We would obviously need to talk to Charity and Michael and Dresden about it, use the Crown as a precaution to ask for long-term side-effects, probably promise Charity not to sneak out of the house at night and to spend at least some time studying, and maybe take a break one week out of a month or something like that, etc. Reasonable precautions.
But it's certainly doable, and not some sort of anathema taboo idea IC.
) might call an unnecessarily large pile of horrifying murder-drones around to draw from at need.