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I wanted to start a topic about caffein. There is a big war on drugs, but no one seems to care that caffein is just as harmful as any of them. Caffein is in coffee, chocolate and soda. You get addicted to caffein, and can develope caffein poisioning, and it messes with your kidneys. (and about caffein helping people stay awake, I quote a medical book: "Caffein whips your nerves like a rider whips a tired horse") I've recently had kidney stones, and it probably came from caffiein. This may be the cause of a LOT of problems.

You could say that it's up to the people to buy it or not, but they mainly market stuff like soda and especially chocolate to little kids. It's like completely impossible almost not to get addicted to caffein, since it's everywhere. And it tears up your body. I dunno exactly where I'm going with this, but I find it weird that it's marketed to kids... Thoughts?
 
My mom o many occasions has said chocolate should be a control substance.
 
Caffeine makes you jittery and sleepless if you take too much, and that's about it. I don't recommend giving kids caffeine, but it's basically harmless to adults.
 
I'm going to agree with Mozz's general stance on that kind of issues, for a change - let people make their own mistakes. Banning drinking and driving, or smoking in pulic buildings, yes. Banning smoking altogether, or alcohol altogether, or coffee altogether (...or pot altogether...) is just another attempt by the morally self-righteous at forcing other people to be like them (IE, prohibition 2.0!)

Though the notion of buying black market chocolate is stupid enough to be funny, in some ways.
 
I hate the way large amounts of caffeine make me feel. I stopped drinking Mountain Dew because of it.
 
In moderation, it's not too bad. I need a cup of coffee in the morning to 'wake up,' but I found that my energy level stayed about the same all day if I substituted decaf green tea in the mid-morning and afternoon. It's really up to the parents to watch what their kids eat and drink in order to regulate their caffeine and sugar intakes.
 
I work with a guy whose mother comes into the store every day before her shift at Safeway starts, and buys a big thermos AND a travel mug of coffee. And that's just until she gets off work.
 
Who knows how many sodas I drink in a day. I don't feel jittery all, and I certainly don't feel it making me hyper a bit. I know it can, if there is enough of it, but that is why I do not bother with the now popular energy drinks. The most a soda has done to me is perhaps make me wired at night. @.@ I've never had even a sip of coffee in my life and I'm an adult now. I'm the only one I know that has done that.
 
I pretty much agree with D on this one. I avoid caffeine all around because if I have any at all I have trouble sleeping at night.

What bothers me is that on some drinks, there's no way to tell until you've paid for it. Like, I know that Sprite won't have caffeine, but Mountain Dew and Coke and Pepsi will. But what about beverages that aren't so common, like Root Beer? One brand does I know, and the other does not (though which ones are which I can't remember).

I wish that they would disclose more clearly, especially on drink machines, what is in the sodas as far as caffeine is concerned.

- Trip
 
I used to have a cup of coffee every morning, thanks to the little addiction I got from my research paper sophomore year... lately I've switched to green tea with honey in the morning. Though on weekends, I do have a tendency to enjoy the Good Doctor...
 
I agree that people should make their own mistakes. I'm pretty tired of this "we have to control everything and everyone" mentality. If people outlawed caffeine and cigarettes and alcohol, it wouldn't solve the problem, it would make things worse for everyone. Prohibition doesn't work, period. Maybe it shouldn't be marketed to children, but that's just the way it is, I guess.
 
I actually think I've developed an immunity to caffeine. Unless I'm downing one of those energy drinks, soda and the like doesn't have much of an effect on me.

Oh yeah, my opinion is "people may do whatever the hell they want".
 
I believe caffien does more than just make you jittery. It messes with your kidneys, and it very possibly could be the cause of cysts and things. I can't really explain it, but I have very good reason to believe that it really messes with your body. The reason I made this thread is that over the last few months, I've been throwing up randomly and can't figure out why. I've stopped drinking and eating caffien, and now I'm testing milk and sugar. I very well could be lactose intolerant, all of the sudden, and my grandfather is too, and he's drank Coke all his life. I started when I was about 12. Also, I've had cysts and things like that, and a lot of people get them nowadays, same with kidney stones, etc. Caffien is rumored to cause these, and I kinda believe it. :(
 
Hey stupids, did it ever occur to you lot that "people making their own mistakes" could have dire consequences on other people? If getting high or getting drunk made you just do funny stuff or see cool things and didn't have the potential to kill other people, the stuff wouldn't be banned/restricted.

Caffine's harmless, really, especially if people are man (or woman) enough to fight off cravings.
 
Um, did it ever occur to you that tobacco and alcohol are perfectly legal? Only restriction is age, and that's easily circumvented. And name-calling is generally frowned upon here.
 
Dark Chromium Dragonite said:
Hey stupids, did it ever occur to you lot that "people making their own mistakes" could have dire consequences on other people? If getting high or getting drunk made you just do funny stuff or see cool things and didn't have the potential to kill other people, the stuff wouldn't be banned/restricted.

Caffine's harmless, really, especially if people are man (or woman) enough to fight off cravings.
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Okay, it's pretty hard to take anything you say seriously when you made yourself look like a two year old two words into your post.

Yes, they could, which is why it's against the law to drive while intoxicated because it stops just being about someone doing what they want and becomes something that could hurt other people. You know, that neat idea that you have rights if those rights don't infringe on the rights of others.
 
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