Might be easier to just limit the caffeine max per can.
I feel like teenagers will drink X cans per night regardless, so its easier harm reduction to reduce the caffer per drink then try to remove the drinls from teens all together.
What's going on Canada?
🍁 Meta
🗺️ Provinces / Territories
🏙️ Cities / Local Communities
Sorted alphabetically by city name.
🏒 Sports
Hockey
Football (NFL): incomplete
Football (CFL): incomplete
Baseball
Basketball
Soccer
💻 Schools / Universities
Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.
💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales
🗣️ Politics
🍁 Social / Culture
Rules
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca
Might be easier to just limit the caffeine max per can.
I feel like teenagers will drink X cans per night regardless, so its easier harm reduction to reduce the caffer per drink then try to remove the drinls from teens all together.
speaking as a polish person, our government enacted a similar but more restrictive law in 2024, and it's definitely been a positive change. Obviously it wasn't a smooth transition. Do minors still find ways to get around the system and drink energy drinks? Yeah. But because it is no longer convieniant a lot of people either switched to coffee, low caffine energy drinks or stopped drinking them all together
England's banning kids from doing all sorts of things and causing problems for everyone while doing it, so while I wouldn't say this is bad per se, I do worry that it's coming out of England.
Yes, they are addictive and bad for your health. Full of unproven chemicals that are supposedly safe at the levels in them if they are "used responsibly".
This is code for your only supposed to have one occasionally, but because they are addictive that is not how people consume them.
Adults shouldn't be consuming this garbage let alone a kid.
Regardless if we ban them, we should be taxing them at a rate that helps cover healthcare costs related to heart health.
I nearly killed myself with red bull when I was 18, because I could easily buy 24 cans. Energy drinks should only be sold in places like bars.
I tried monster in my first university year, combining monster and coffee to be alert and don’t sleep over the books.
I was like Fry on 99 coffees
Had a dissociative episode, nothing to worry about but got me really scared. After that I stopped drinking Monster and toned down the coffee intake.
Maybe closer to coffee shops than bars. The use case of energy drinks is a bit different than that of alcohol. Sometimes I'll need a little boost while driving during a long or late shift, i like the the taste of coffee so I'll usually get a coffee. Some people don't like coffee or it isn't always available so energy drinks work as well. The overconsumption of energy drinks is their main issue.