cocaine ruins your life and caffeine doesn’t. if a kid is regularly using caffeine, it’s entirely possible that they’re completely healthy and well-adjusted. if a kid is regularly using cocaine, they likely have major underlying issues that need to be addressed. kids have way way less desire to use cocaine than caffeine. there is a huge difference between imprisoning people and banning the sale, but you still have the same fundamental issue that you cannot ban a drug, you can only hurt and stigmatize the users to varying degrees.
cocaine ruins your life and caffeine doesn’t. if a kid is regularly using caffeine, it’s entirely possible that they’re completely healthy and well-adjusted. if a kid is regularly using cocaine, they likely have major underlying issues that need to be addressed. kids have way way less desire to use cocaine than caffeine. there is a huge difference between imprisoning people and banning the sale, but you still have the same fundamental issue that you cannot ban a drug, you can only hurt and stigmatize the users to varying degrees.
Hard disagree that this will hurt and stigmatise children to any degree. Are children stigmatised because they can’t vote or drive?
Letting kids sleep in a couple more hours in the morning before school would help them more than giving them unlimited access to gamer juice.
im feeling a lot of personal animosity towards you so im disengaging from this argument