Comment on Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster

Highlandcow@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No there is a voluntary thing where shops can choose not to sell to under 16s. Many of the supermarkets do this.

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  • Highlandcow@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Jeez, man this sucks, why shouldn’t a teenager be able to make these decisions for himself, they aren’t stupid

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    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They’re not stupid, but their brains aren’t fully developed yet. A huge problem is the fact that the part of the brain that takes into consideration possible consequences for any action one decides to take is one of the last things to fully develop, and that doesn’t happen until roughly age 25.

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      • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Peak Reddit/Lemmy

        The infantilism is so high. Teenagers just can’t be trusted with a dangerous drug like caffeine!

        God you people suck. Annoying everyone into fascism.

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        perkcoffee.co/sg/countries-consume-coffee/

        The UK appears to be nowhere near the top of countries on per-capita coffee consumption, at less than a third Finland’s rate.

        However, it does appear to be very high on prevalence of cocaine consumption:

        en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_countries_by_prevalenc…

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      • Highlandcow@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Fully developed enough no, but developed enough to handle a legal drug such as caffeine and to look at the back of a bottle and make a decision on what they do not want to put into there bodies, the stupidity of select individual isn’t a valid justification of the curtailing of freedom

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      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        A huge problem is the fact that the part of the brain that takes into consideration possible consequences for any action one decides to take is one of the last things to fully develop, and that doesn't happen until roughly age 25.

        Deff missed this memo.

        Although it do get better with age, I guess.

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    • subignition@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      sometimes they are... sometimes they are.
      https://www.epicresearch.org/articles/caffeine-related-ed-visits-although-uncommon-doubled-for-middle-school-and-high-school-aged-children-since-2017

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