Are Energy Drinks the Newest Drug?

All of the furor over this product is simply giving him free advertising better than any he could buy. Congratulations, your outrage is helping him sell his product. Once you've decided that someone else's free speech has "gone too far", you open the door to someone else deciding that your's has.

Last year convenience stores pulled a product called cocaine. Maybe they will do that with this. The 12 to 20 year olds are the group using energy drinks. Mr. Gola is branding his drink after a drug, as a father I wish he would stop. Cocaine abuse is not a joke and causes serious problems in this country.

I do find the “Blow Energy Drink Mix” marketing way over the line! They actually are simulating doing lines of cocaine. It’s defiantly NOT the normal advertising as used by CocaCola (COKE), Opium Perfume or Cocaine Energy Drink. But it’s an issue for the courts...Not the FDA...It’s NOT A DRUG!!! May look like one...but it’s sugar and caffeine! Energy has long been associated with cocaine. It was “Coke” who first started such marketing and included the drug it in its original ingredients. Look at a 2 liter bottle of Diet “Coke”...You see “Coke” in Big Red Letters...you have to search for the small type on the bottom of the label to find “CocaCola”. Why do you think they call it “Coke”? It’s short for Cocaine! PERIOD... No matter what “KO” may CLAIM! “Coke” continues to “get away with such advertising” but recently such other beverage companies such as the makers of “Cocaine Energy Drink” have been harassed by the FDA. For What Reasons???...For following marketing practices that have been used for decades? SEX has always sold! How much more edgy can you get than sex? Minors are exposed to more sexual ad’s via print, TV, movies,etc. Whether you agree with the Supreme Courts decision or not...Larry Flint won that battle years ago. I’m a 45 yr old republican male and I never thought I’d drink energy drinks. But I and other co-workers had no problem dinking pot after pot after pot of coffee each day. Now I drink one or two cans of the Cocaine Energy Drinks per day...It’s the only one I like the taste of as Red Bull tastes nasty! Their sugar free tastes ok...but what's the use, it doesn't work. Neither does that new 5 Hour energy supplement you see at 7-11. And at my age and the hous I work I need a daily boost. It’s just Coffee -vs- Energy Drinks! Your Header should have read, “IS CAFEEN THE NEWEST DRUG WE’VE IGNORED FOR CENTURIES”? Products such as “Coke” and “Cocaine Energy Drink” are not the problem. The problem is that an age limit should be implemented on said products. Do you let your children drink coffee...or smoke? Well...let’s strive to pass legislation with age limits on energy drinks...Problem solved! The beverage companies will not like it...but it’s the correct thing to do...just as cigarettes and alcohol! Then the FDA can spend their time on What They Should Be Doing; dealing with Much More Urgent Issues such as approving drugs that can actually save peoples lives! I personally know of several drugs the FDA has "slow tracted" costing humans lives every day! I think an even bigger problem with minors is the killing, rape, and pillaging going on in these video games! God Bless America, Capitalism and the 1st Amendment!

Being on MySpace and as a Music Artist I see kids GALORE sporting the Monster Power Drinks saying how they are addicted to them and etc... So this does go to show you they are a DRUG! Alexis, can you somehow subscribe me to your blogs? I have tried numerous times of finding your blogs again, and Fox News doesn't help by not being so friendly to navigate around :P Thanks for your wonderful blogs! Yours, DJ Gemz