ETM told you, First it was Smokes, now it's Caffeine.

I think it's clear to everyone, that ETM needs to cut back on caffeine.

 

Here's the thing: energy drinks and stimulants are all the rage in the overworked under rested american populace. These manufacturers know this and release these unnecessary potentially dangerous over caffeinated beverages to take advantage of that and people just eat it right up. When one company releases one then the next puts more caffeine in their own product and it just keeps escalating back and forth. So yeah if there is the potential that a minor could buy energy gum or an energy drink and have a heart attack or stroke because it has way too much caffeine in it then I want some over sight. Kids don't know or in most cases don't care what that caffeine does to their system and their parents are too dumb or irresponsible to make sure they don't get too much. Putting four cups of coffee's worth of caffeine in a 16 ounce drink and making it available to kids without discrection is neglectful.

Minors shouldn't even have access to energy drinks or energy supplements of any kind. They have no need for them. No minor should be pushed to the point where they have to rely on a stimulant like that. If they are then their parents need to reevaluate their schedule and life style.

 

In high school, we had this Future Businessman of America type ******** club. Anyway, we started selling snacks before school and in between classes. We were selling Red Bull and making crazy profits just selling that stuff. Parents started complaining though and the principal told us we couldn't sell it anymore. Cut into our profits.

 

Haha I sympathize. When I was a kid in school I would have RAGED over that, but looking back and seeing the dumb **** kids do (snorting condoms) there needs to be oversight where they are concerned.

 

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Snorting condoms?!!

 

So what, soda has 0 nutritional value anyway. Get rid of soda and maybe these fat little rolly polly kids will lose a few lbs

 

I concur.

 

Its a new trend. The kids snort it up their nose, and pull it out of their mouth. Why, you ask? Cause its "cooool" apparently. Kids are also diping tampons in alcohol and inserting it up their hoohas and stankholes.

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I have no confidence left in the human species.

 

And I thought snorting pop rocks and Warheads was harcore.

 

Remember when everyone had the friend who would snort Pixie Sticks lol

 

Only if you drink Coke at the same time.

 

Lol yep.

 

You are being hyperbolic. No one is saying the goverment is going to take your mountain dew. Just that companies can't put ridiculous unecessarry amounts of caffeine in their drinks and market it to children to beat the competition and make a profit.

And sadly we do need oversight like this, because too many parents are lazy and don't watch their kids. They stick em in front of a video game system or a tv and let it babysit them. Little Johnny has no business nor need with a red bull or monster or rockstar. If the parents want to buy it for them fine. If Johnny wants to drink one when he is an adult fine. But while a person is legally considered a minor they shouldn't be able to buy just every little thing their underdeveloped frontal lobe tells them to buy. This is what NO BIG GOVERMENT people don't think about. Your frontal lobe (the part of your brain responsible for making you think about consequences and danger) doesn't fully develop untiul you are 25. So if the parents aren't watching the kids properly the kid can not be relied upon to make the smart or informed decision about that 3rd or 4th redbull. Teenagers brains are a slush of chemicals pouring from an underdeveloped brain hence why they do dumb ****. They need someone making sure they are taken care of and not hurting themselves, and if manufacturers and parents won't be responsible then the government has to be.

Big Government is the result of an irresponsible public. So all this "let us do whatever we want consequences be damned" while quaint and a fun idea is leading to a fractured irresponsible society of man childs. If the public wants the government to back off then they need to grow the **** up and ask themselves "Just because I can do it does that mean I should do it?" Until then get used to Big Brother looking after us.

 

For a second I'm thinking...I somehow wandered into the weird part of the internet...again...

 

There's a non weird part of the internet?

 

I hate when people say stuff like this in their arguments. "Another public survey saying that more people prefer the color green to blue? Why are these statisticians wasting their time with this when we still don't have a cure for cancer?!" There's a division in the government specifically dedicated to dealing with all food and drugs. It's called the FDA. And they're not about to ignore an issue involving food (whether they decide to actually do anything about it isn't what I'm talking about, here) just because other sections of the government have things to do.

That'd be like ignoring your diabetes just because you're trying to mend a broken leg; the two problems have nothing to do with one another, and your leg being in a cast doesn't mean it's okay to eat a whole cake in one sitting.

 

I'm sure you're a nice person, but I hate you for introducing this idea to me. I hope they get stuck in their nose forever, have fun explaining THAT to mommy and daddy.

On topic, I'm sick of the power grabs governments are always taking. I'm cool with researching more, but if they start pulling a Bloomberg so help me...