How are energy drinks legal?

Lysander said:
Just so you know, I bought a can of Monster at the weekend [the white one] and OH MY GOD that stuff is strong. By a quarter of the way through the can I was buzzing to ******* and back and this went on for about three-four hours. I couldn't even finish the can and ended up pouring the last part down the sink.

I'm amazed that these are sold in normal shops. How are they legal, the effect is so intense. Do people drive after drinking these things? Do people give them to kids? I'm absolutely stunned by how strong the effect was. It can't be good for you. What's worse is that I hear people get addicted to them.
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You need to double dose on some pre workout, then you’ll get a real buzz. If the face is itchy you know it’s hit
 
My sister used to drink a decent amount of energy drinks daily.

She told me that when she stopped there were severe withdrawal symptoms.
 
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if you want energy you would be better off sticking a couple of Duracell AA's up your dirtbox.................
 
I remember a few years back when I was at Stobarts we had an agency driver taken ill at work, heart palpitations, sweating, we thought he was having a heart attack, he was carted off to hospital in an ambulance under blue lights and I was tasked with recovering his truck.

Upon entering the cab, the floor was strewn with empty Monster and Red Bull cans, he wasn’t far from our depot in Stoke having just driven back from Essex.

Drinking energy drinks was (is) common with drivers, especially on nights as I was at the time, I don’t know the eventual outcome as to my knowledge he never came back but I soon switched back to day shifts and stopped drinking the things.
 
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tom_e said:
Same as people who can't function before their morning coffee.
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I think the scary thing about this is most people don't realise until some event leads them off it for a day or two. My dad had a story about this as he was drinking a lot of coffee back when he was working/doing his phd. I can't remember the exact scenario but he had to travel abroad at some point and he started feeling ill, cold, sweats, headache etc and it took some realisation that it was because he hadn't had a coffee for that day. Went to go buy one and immediately started to feel better. After that he went off coffee mostly and then drank decaff.

The times i've had an energy drink they don't ever seem to do anything for me. I'm a 98% water only guy so i expected it to do something more :(
 
Never really 'felt' caffeines effects. Must be a genetic thing. I can remember doing a 24hr coding competition at uni and washing down 2 pro plus with a red bull and I didn't feel any different. Coffee, energy drinks, pro plus etc, I don't 'feel' any different after trying them and I'm not sure they abate tiredness with me either.
 
Mason- said:
Never really 'felt' caffeines effects. Must be a genetic thing. I can remember doing a 24hr coding competition at uni and washing down 2 pro plus with a red bull and I didn't feel any different. Coffee, energy drinks, pro plus etc, I don't 'feel' any different after trying them and I'm not sure they abate tiredness with me either.
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If it was a little red bull then you only got about 100mg of caffeine which if you generally drink coffee and things anyway or are really tired isn't really going to make a dent. Saying that there is also a genetic component, some people are naturally very very sensitive to even small amounts.
 
Used to drink them a fair amount as a teenager - if I have a single one now, my guts rumble something fierce!
 
I have never get the buzz or hit of energy that I hear others talk about, the same goes for coffee. I wish I did as I could do with it at times.
 
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As a student I bought two bottles (1 litre) of a supermarket’s own brand of energy drink. Drank both in an hour. I was bouncing like crazy and stayed awake
 
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