Should the legal drinking limit be lowered to age 18?
I mean, if you can vote for the President of the United States AND be old enough to take a bullet for your country, why not?
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Yes, it should be. I agree with you on your assessment.
did you know it used to be?
I agree.
If you are old enough to take a bullet for your country and willing to prove it then sign up for the army. The drinking age for enlisted people is 18. If you don't sign up you don't get to drink.
Why not?
Because it's good for someone to have experience with a bit of responsibility before they start having to deal with the responsibilities associated with drinking alcohol.
Well talk to your state reps. , yes it should be but it won't because of all the nanny staters out there in this country
Drinking age in most of Europe is 16.
I would have to say it is predominantly because the age of majority isn't always the age of maturity.
yes
The age used to be 18 then they changed it back in the 70's. But if you can go to war and fight for this country I say way can you not drink
Only for those serving in the Armed Forces. An 18 year old in Tikrit deserves an ice cold bottle of Sam Adams a hell of a lot more than a frat boy or sorority chick of the same age. As a side note, if you are serving in a country where the legal drinking age is 18, then you are already allowed to drink.
Hell no...I think it should be raised to 25..
I just turned 30 and I can tell you when I was 18 getting booze was no problem and we, being my friends acted like idiots...I did not learn how to drink responsibly until I was around 25 or 26.
Ther would be way more DUI's and way more stupid human tricks.
Does it really matter?Teens are going to drink whether they can legally buy it or not.
No, because the dramatic drop in alcohol-rated driving fatalities after it was raised from 18 to 21 did a lot to prove that 18 is not a good age for drinking.
Strange that you should ask, because it is in fact, at least at the federal level, already only 18.
this is why you can drink at 18 if you are on a native American Indian reservation or on US waters that don't have state jurisdictions (normally 1-3 miles off the pacific and Atlantic coasts)
the federal government subverts its own low drinking age by giving "kickbacks" (aka "educational funds", tax breaks, etc.) to states that decide to raise the state minimum drinking age to at least 21.
this is why Louisiana was the last state to adopt a drinking age of 21 in the mid 90's...because up until about 10 years ago the state was making more off the tourists (think Marti Gras) with a lower drinking age than they would have from federal kickbacks.
this also explains why age related drinking crimes (contributing to the delinquency, underage consumption, public intoxication) are all state crimes (misdemeanors) instead of felony's.
I'm not American but this 21 age limit on drink strikes many people especially people outside the States as odd to say the least. As you said you can drive, vote, get married, get drafted but can't drink a beer? it definitely needs reviewing.
When you go to the bars now, the real idiots that fight and cause most of the trouble are the 21 & 22 yr olds. We don't need more adolescents in bars causing more trouble and killing more people on there way home.
so
lets take the right to vote away from them and make minimum age for Armed Services 21 !!
NO WAY! It's bad enough that they drink when they shouldn't. If it were legal it would make it easier. We have enough drunks on the road.
Did you hear that Lindsay Lohan got busted again - another drunk off the road (again).
Here in Europe ,the drinking age is in 18 years old ,and now up to this the smoking age ,and the intention of almost all coutries of europe ,is to go up the age of both things to 21 years old
If your coutry have this law is because ,the body is very young in this age's to asimilate this sustance
Be patients ,u have a lot of time to make hurt yourself how u want
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