Highlandcow

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 drinks 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

"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

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

It's true, for example the UK online safety act has pushed users who want to access NSFW content onto more sketchy less safe sites and for people who have given there facial data and ID to a third-party company there data is now privy to a data breach

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

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

Oh my god I'd fucking scarf them down

I thought they were already banned for under 16s won't they?