The issue is that those 14 and under just get older friends to buy energy drinks for them. Thats how it was done when I was a kid (with alcohol & weed in my case)
I mean yeah, there’s no such thing as an absolute law. If the goal is to make 100% sure absolutely no kid or teenager ever gets so much as a drop of Redbull® (or even alcohol), then your policy is always doomed to failure, no matter how strict you make it.
Luckily, you don’t actually have to do that. Some minor barrier to entry, even one as simple as having to ask “hey, could you get me this from the shop?”, is usually enough to discourage a pretty sizable chunk of people. Like China’s firewall. Doesn’t actually stop anyone determined, but it is enough to keep yer nan from using Facebook to fry her understanding of the world. Assuming yer nan lived in China.
The issue is that those 14 and under just get older friends to buy energy drinks for them. Thats how it was done when I was a kid (with alcohol & weed in my case)
I mean yeah, there’s no such thing as an absolute law. If the goal is to make 100% sure absolutely no kid or teenager ever gets so much as a drop of Redbull® (or even alcohol), then your policy is always doomed to failure, no matter how strict you make it.
Luckily, you don’t actually have to do that. Some minor barrier to entry, even one as simple as having to ask “hey, could you get me this from the shop?”, is usually enough to discourage a pretty sizable chunk of people. Like China’s firewall. Doesn’t actually stop anyone determined, but it is enough to keep yer nan from using Facebook to fry her understanding of the world. Assuming yer nan lived in China.