FDA moves to ban Caffeinated Alocholic Beverages

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Nich
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Posted on: November 17, 2010 - 3:56pm

http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/parenting-family/teen-ya/2010-11-17-1Afourloko17_ST_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

 

A link from a USAToday article saying they want to ban energy drink style alocohol beverages, and I bet you can assume what arguement they use:  We got to protect the children.

The article has almost no information, but theres a clip from the AP of NY Senator Schumer wanting to ban all such substances in NY.  He uses this excuse as the sole reason to ban them, offering a case in which a teenager in flordia died from drinking a 4-loko.  He completely downplays the fact this girl had taken a diet pill, and diet pills+alocohol=dangerous.

If you scroll through the comments, its not surprising that almost everyone points out that 2 legal things put together is illegal.  So pre-made= illegal, do it in your home=legal. 

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Jackie Fiest
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Posted on: November 17, 2010 - 9:51pm #1

Absolutely ludacrist.

"This is not a hasty decision by the FDA," he said. "There is evidence that the combinations of caffeine and alcohol in these products pose a public health concern."

Mixing different types of alcahol, cigarettes, unprotected sex...all this is dangerous. How far do we want to go with the government telling us we can't have something because it's dangerous. Isn't knowing right from wrong and making decisions accordingly part of being an adult?

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severin
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Posted on: November 17, 2010 - 10:34pm #2

Those premade cans of energy alcohol drinks normally are limited to 5-6% alcohol, but mix a red bull and vodka and you can get a much higher percentage of alcohol, so this dummy Schumer is just going to kill an industry and promote people mixing it themselves. Won't do a thing but hurt the economy even more.

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