There’s a big move on the left and with some on the right to outlaw sugar drinks and other ingredients in soft drinks. We’re pro-choice on soft drinks. Sorry, Michael Bloomberg: no outlawing Big Gulps.

It’s always been astonishing to us that so many of the 1970s lefties who wanted to legalize heroine and LSD, now want to ban Dr. Pepper.

The soft drink industry has proactively launched a new comprehensive website listing and explaining all of the ingredients in their products to calm panic-driven soda taxes and product bans in the states. It’s a handy reference. And now consumers don’t need the health cops to tell them what they can put in their bodies.