Highlandcow

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And from a young age can drink alcohol with parental permission lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Via the NHS they’d be able to get methylphenidate or a number other drugs to help treat ADHD alot of these drugs work as stimulates that work for long periods of time making them much more effective then energy regarding convenience

  But I still get your concern as waiting lists are quite long In this country but there are other forms of caffeine as well that are alot more healthy, I still think this ban is awful though but it’s not the end of the world for people with ADHD I luckily don’t think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “your obviously affected by this” where is your evidence for that? I don’t drink caffeine, I don’t like coffee and I don’t really like tea too much either and ive only have had an energy drink like once, my bias is that I care about personal freedom

  Also are you sure teens don’t care about how energy drinks affect there brain and dont do research into this stuff? And if so isn’t this an issue of education, shouldn’t we just make PSAs and include learning about this into personal health development style classes in schools, why is the immediate reaction to jump to curtailing teenagers freedoms and assume they are too stupid to understand, didn’t we just give 16 year olds the right to vote, and these kids can already drink alcohol from a young age with parental permission

  But your right in that it’s fair that we are always learning about how drugs such as nicotine in cigarettes affect us and that things change and we never have the full facts, but this energy drink restriction doesn’t seem to be a restriction in most other countries and the main justification seems to be reducing NHS waiting times, I don’t think the idea of reducing freedom is the answer to saving the NHS the NHS needs much more complex reform to stay as amazing as it can be

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok fair, I can admit looking at your comment my argument was flawed, I still think though that people of all ages should be able drink whatever caffeine based drink they want as long as it isn’t strong enough to kill you which energy drinks arnt, most countries do not have this restriction to my knowledge and I think this use of “public health” and the idea we need to curtail people’s freedoms to save NHS money is wrong and that there are more important mismanagement of government funds that needs to be looked at

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of agree, I dont care if they’re brain is fully developed or not, caffeine is a legal drug and a teens brain is developed enough to make a decision like this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought they were already banned won’t they?