Well...some high schools. Liberal base voting demographics are either still in school at 19 or actually got out 5 years earlier.
You can't base it off that. First of all, many people don't graduate high school. Others may graduate a year or semester early. People will complain that's unfair, maybe somebody is old for their grade, and somebody else is young, yet they both have to wait until graduation.
Poverty, quality of life, stress and supply all relate to problems with drinking. America has a large amount of cheap alcohol and if you're old enough it isn't hard to obtain. Then there is the stress that kids have to deal with today an easy way to get an off switch isn't going to help. The country needs a massive shift in society before the age can be lowered to 18. The age to join any kind of military should be changed i don't think many young people have developed their morality enough to be put in certain situations which can warp their mentality to extremes. I mean the brain doesn't finish developing until your 25 so i see no reason why we should let the young through themselves into such a horrible situation unless there is no other choice.
It is entirely irrelevant!! I live in the US, and I drank way, way, way more under 21, than I have since turning 21. I drank a lot between 16 and 21. Since I finished undergrad at 22, I drink way less than I did before. Now I drink once or twice a month. There was a time when I was drinking at least 3 nights a week. Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. So my point is that drinking being illegal doesn't stop anyone from drinking, and only punishes people in retrospect for something that hurts no one else. I therefore think there should be no drinking age, and allow kids and their parents to decide when to allow their kids to drink. Or change it so it isn't illegal to drink, but you have to be 18 to buy alcohol. I suppose something like that would make sense.
21 if you are not in the military. If you are in the military, then you can drink. You do get a military id when you join.
+ 1 the current transportation system in the u.s. creates huge drunken driving problems, but it should be 18 ZERO tolerence for alchohol while driving will help with that problem. I live in WI and i know ppl who are approching their 10th DUI/OWI and still walking around, they send them to the municiple road crews for a few weeks at most. P.S. alchohol is just as much an intoxicating drug as cannibis(marijuana) AND more addictive with many times more the social problem
Similarly, Soldiers under 21 have the highest ratings of suicides, crime, and drug abuse (including under-age drinking). Clearly the policy of letting 18 year olds join the military has failed and the enlistment age needs to be raised to 21.
LOL America sucks. Us Aussies get to drink at 18 as do most people in the world I think, or at least in the west.
Up until 1984, it was 18 in the US as well. In fact, you currently only have to be 21 to buy alcohol; in most states, you can drink it at any age. Oh, and it's still 18 in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Apparently, they don't have much use for federal highways
Don't expect me to jump to Reagan's defense. The guy was mentally handicapped even before he had Alzheimer's.
Keep it at 21. The divey bars and strip clubs in Windsor need the bidness. The drinking age is provincially determined in Canada. In Alberta, Manitoba, and Quebec, it's 18, and in the other provinces and territories, it's 19.
Hmmmm...... 19 seems reasonable for some of the lighter alcoholic beverages, however it should be higher for hard liquor. Being most of the 18 year olds I know are pretty (*)(*)(*)(*)ing stupid, I am inclined to leave it at 21.
Look, it's not like this happened 50 or 60 years ago. Just go ask some adults in thier 50's.. they'll tell you why it happened I'm sure. If you want to "blame" someone, blame Mothers Against Drunk Drivers. They were the primary force behind this I believe.
Believe me, a HUGE untapped market exists with folks under 21. With our weak economy, lowering the age to 16 (for beverages under 80 proof)-18 (everything else) with ZERO tolerance for drunk driving and an increase in beverage taxes will give us more MONEY (we need revenues, simple as that and we gotta advance our ideas of how to treat vices past early 20th century notions) plus it'll actually be easier to combat the results of 'underage' drinking with more awareness and enforcement (so, less cases of alcohol poisoning or drunk driving accidents, and they won't be put in danger since they won't be buying it from bad people.) Same reason, I support the legalization of marijuana and psilocybin and the decriminalization of all other substances (as in, for harder substances, there is limits on possession, slightly harder sin taxes and you couldn't just get a gram of coke from the 7/11), cuz it takes away potentially hundreds of billions of dollars that bad folks would be getting, and with funds going to increased awareness and rehab, violent crime would go down.
Here is 16 for all drinks and drugs are legalized we are all alive it doesnt give that much money tough. You buy good vodkas or whiskys for 5 €. And more than 4 € for a bottle of wine means it is of huge quality.
If 18 is old enough to join the military, drive a tank, fly a helicopter, drive a car, vote, or be executed for a premeditated murder.... Yeah, it's old enough to drink.
