In my opinion...i dont think that it is a good idea to lower the drinking age. Most 18 year olds cant take care of themselves as it is. To quote one of my brothers friends, who is 18, "if they lower the limit, i'm getting a job."

Two things, first it isn't lowering the drinking age to 18, it's returning it to 18. The drinking age was 18 for a large number of years until about 25 years ago. Second it is colleges supporting the change, are you kidding me? College students will drink regardless of the age. They are not drinking because it is "unlawfully tantilizing" they are drinking because the perception is that when you are in college you party. Until that image is changed changing legalities won't matter a lot.

There are 2 reasons why drinking age should be left at 21.

1. We have enough problems with young new drivers, driving, texting and talking on the phone, now you want to add possible drinking and driving to that too?

2. We adults use the bars as a get away, being with kids all day, complaints, issues, cooking, cleaning, those places are our last refuge to get out an let loose, why ruin it for the adults do we not do enough and give enough? Leave it so we too can relax and have a good time without kids for once.

I am only 22 and 4 years ago would have been a terrible age to be able to buy alcohol. Teens are too irresponsible to handle it, I was a 4.0 student and very responsible with drinking. This is not a wise idea. My friends and I agree that if we would have been able to get our own alcohol at that age it would have resulted in more deaths due to drunk driving as well as danger to others. Drinking at 18 would be fine if driving age was moved to 21, for everyones' safety!

As a 19 year old college student I would like to see the drinking age lowered. Even though I don't plan to ever drink I also don't want to get in trouble if I have a roommate or suitemate that does drink. Currently, I can get in trouble for drinking if my roommate's alcohol is in our room and she isn't. Even if I'm taking the alcohol outside to the trashcan I could still get in trouble.

Years ago during the Viet Nam War, the cry form the 18 year olds was, "If we are old enough for the draft, and to fight and die for our country, we should be able to legally drink." The age in ID was eventually lowered to 18. There were many accidents on the roads and deaths from alcohol poisoning. If college personell are asking to lower the age, are they just trying to eliminate the college's role in enforcing the law?

First of all, I don't think kids should drink, but let's get real. They are drinking and part of the thrill is the challenge to not get caught.
If the military can take our 18 yr olds and teach them to be soldiers, why can't they drink legally?
It seems to me it is a case of double standards. Leave kids in the US and punish them for underage drinking because we all know if they want to drink they will find a way to drink, or.... send them off in the military to "turn kids into adults", think there is any drinking in the military? Hum....

I do believe that the drinking age should be lowered because these younger people are drinking any way. However I believe that ALL drinkers should first take an alcohol class and after passing receive an endorsement to drink on their State ID cards, if they screw up, drink and drive they get their endorsement taken away for a mandatory time.This would also be a way for people that do screw up to still drive to work they just couldn't purchase alcohol anywhere. Nobody drinks without alcohol education and alcohol endorsement.

I think the drinking age should be returned to 18. One person said that it shouldnt be because most 18 year olds cant even take care of themselves but the same can be said of 21 year olds. Also if 18 year olds cant take care of themselves why can they kill and die for their country? Why can they help choose our president, buy lottery tickets, buy cigarretes, etc.? Also another person said leave it at 21 so that they can go to the bar to get away from kids, that has absolutely nothing to do with the issue, changing the drinking age should have nothing to do with someone wanting to use alcohol as an escape from their issues. Also if an 18 year old is going to drink, then their going to drink. It isn't difficult in any way to get alcohol at that age and it doesnt matter whether its legal or not they will drink if they want to, it might not be such a lure if it wasn't illegal. People say that they are worried about them drinking and driving as well, we have those same issues with drinkers over the current drinking age. You see more drinking and driving from mature adults who think they can drive with alcohol in their system because they are use to the effects of alcohol and will be ok driving because they've done it so many times before.

If government is going to set age requirements for any activity, they should then be held accountable and responsible for providing adequate and appropriate education of the use and abuse of such activities, and as for drinking and also driving, it has completely failed to update its educational programs to meet present social needs, relying instead on laws and systems designed in the early 19th century. So it might be a good idea to improve the situation before burdening society with additional ignorance.

Maybe being considered an adult should be changed to age 21 and leave the drinking age at 21. If you are considered an adult at age 18 then you should let them drink at age 18. I dont think it is a good idea.

When I was 14 and the drinking age was 18, access to alcohol was very easy for me. My high school buddies would just pick me up whatever I could pay for. This inhibited my growth as an adult considerably. I'm almost 50 now and still suffering the effects of young drinking. The age of 18 infrindges on the public school age and those social circles. It will bring some young adults 3 years earlier into the judicial system which is already overloaded. Dont youth already have enough problems with drugs and just being young? Why should we encourage more?

I believe the drinking age should be lowered to 18. If a young person is old enough to go to Iraq and give his or her life for my freedom, be able to vote, serve on juries, get married, be charged as an adult in criminal matters and is mature enough to move out of their parents home, then they are mature enough to drink. I think the argument that lowering the drinking age will only increase risk of more drunk driving fatalities is lame. I believe that a person's chances of driving drunk don't change by a mere 3 years of age. After all, there are plenty of 21 plus drunk drivers who have been deemed mature that drink and drive. I truly believe maturity is not based upon age, but common sense.

Lower the drinking age, it is only fair.

Roxanne Johnson, Lebanon, Oregon

Colleges just don't want to accept the financial responsibility for underage drinking on their campus'. If the drinking age were lowered, Universities would probably just pass the buck onto local police to accept responsibility for the violence, and injury caused by drinking on their campus'. Drunk freshman falling out of windows, etc. Keep it at 21

I think that if your old enough to die for your country, you should be able to drink if you want to. Also I believe young adults will drink regardless, but a least they wont be doing it behind anybody's back if the law was "reversed" .

Eighteen to twenty year old people will be able to make choices for them selfs. We only need take into consideration the rest of the world, and there laws and drinking ages, and the effect on there societyies. Probaly better.

Raise the age for the military to 21 rather than lowering the drinking age 18.
Let's be fair and consistent in our idea of the age of maturity. I read that the human brain is not fully developed until age 25! (Parent--there still is hope.) Maybe we should raise the age to 25 for drinking and joining the military. Unthinking, careless, hurtful people will always exist.
My brilliant employer once said:
"Some people are most unsatisfactory."
That fact will not change; but I hope they make up a very low percentage of the population. To those few I say, "You have nothing to lose; get an education."

This is a "if you can't beat them, join them" cop out. This is ridiculous. They need to be more strict with underage drinking, not give in and lower the drinking age.

This is the stupidest thing I've heard from our education system.

And don't give me the "if we're old enough to die for our country..." line. The government knows that 18 is too young to make intelligent decisions...that's why they let you in at such a young age.

With out a doubt the drinking age should be RETURNED to 18. Canada has a drinking age of 18 in Alberta, Manitoba, and Quebec and the rest of canada is 19,Mexico is 18. Parents may purchase alcohol for their children to drink with a meal once they turn 5. A 16 year old can buy alcohol on their own to drink with a meal, and once the young adult is 18, they can buy alcohol for any purposefrance is 18 germany is 16 for beer or wine and 18 for hard liquor italy has no drinking age australia is 18 so why must young americans wait when at 18 years old they can marry have children vote and fight to defend the country that still insists you cant have a beer.

I am a 23 year old recent college graduate. One thing most people dont know, is that the drinking age is not a federal statute. It is technically the rights of each individual state to set their own drinking age. However, a couple decades ago the federal government threatend to cut highway and other funding to states who did not set their drinking ages at 21 or higher. I think it is wrong for the federal government to have made such threats. This country was founded on the principal that the each state was essentially a self governing independent nation unified under one federal government with limited power. The federal government's power limitations are clearly stated in the constitution. There is nothing about a legal drinking age in the constitution, therefore the federal government should not bully the states into making a decision on this issue. Furthermore the United States has one of, if not the highest drinking ages in the world. These other countries around the world have far fewer problems with drinking, and alcohol related deaths and car accidents. Driving drunk is illegal and still would be, so the argument that its a bad idea because teenagers are going to be driving drunk while texting and what not is a mute point.

If our 18 yr olds can fight and die then they should be old enough to drink! Though I strongly disagree to both!

Currently the Washington driving limit is .08% for over 21 and .02% for under 21
We lower the drinking age to 18 and still keep the .02% until 21 to prevent drunk driving at a young age.

First off, whats the legal age to die for this country? 18. At 18 you have to register for the draft as an U.S. citizen along with many young men and women that volunteer to protect this country. So the government says they are responisible enough to defend our country but not to drink. If your old enough to die for this country you should be old enough to drink a beer.

Are they drunk ? Could you imagine, 18 year olds leaving the bar at 2:00 a.m., they can't hardly drive.

This law is one more signal society is sending to these young adults that "you are still a kid and we expect you to act as such".

Time to start sending the signal that "you are an adult and we expect you to act as such".

By and large people behave as they are truly expected to.

All this has to do with is money. By lowering the drinking age to 18, the universities remove themselves from the liabilities of civil lawsuits from drunkin kids dying from alcohol poisoning in thier dorm room,or falling out a window. This has the stink of the insurance industry trying to save them a buck, and passing the burdon onto us.

Studies have shown that the human brain doesn't reach maturity until around age 25. Lowering the age for drinking jepardizes our youth in many ways,including their physical development.
Rather than give them poison to harm themselves and others, why not provide education on the subject.
University college presidents are making a most surprizing and disappointing move.
Studies show that European nations are experiencing the same difficulties with their youth as regards to achohol abuse.*"The French drink one-and-a-half times more per capita than Americans and their death rate from liver cirrhosis is more than one-and-a-half times greater than that in the United States. According to WHO, France has the sixth highest adult per capita alcohol consumption in the world. (The U.S. ranks 32nd.) Alcohol may be involved in nearly half of the deaths from road accidents, half of all homicides, and one-quarter of suicides, according to the French equivalent of the U.S. Institutes of Health." *http://www.marininstitute.org/alcohol_policy/french_drinking.htmThis problem is a serious worldwide problem. Lowering the age will only create heartache and many more problems.

presidents of colleges are not thinking very well. i think their drinking habits are confusing them on why the drinking age is at 21. because a large portion of highschool kids as seniors will be 18 at their senior years which puts alcohal in high schools and minors will have better access to alcohal.
-and these are college advisors!

More white crosses???
In an age when our own scientists cannot agree that at which point in a child’s development the brain has matured enough for rational thought, and acceptance of adult responsibility; in our experience, the age of eighteen certainly is nowhere near that point. If examples of immature actions are required, ask the U.S. Department of Defense for the numbers of incidents caused by young service men who are allowed to drink at the age of eighteen on military bases. Ask the police who patrol the college and university campuses across the country for their opinions regarding underage drinking. Finally, ask our Nation’s highway patrol who pick up the pieces off the Nation’s interstates and back roads. While we resist grouping all of our young people into one category, our primary concern is that in ten years or so this push to rush our youth into maturity will be another failed social experiment, with ruined lives, and grieving families in its wake and with many more white crosses in our graveyards and along our highways as a constant reminder of that failure.

We firmly believe that by lowering the drinking age, instead of reducing binge drinking you will actually see an increase of and younger binge drinkers. Once you start lowering the legal drinking age, you open the door for advocates that will want it still lower yet, e.g., I can drive at 14 in this state why cannot I legally drink? You can justify anything eventually with one argument or another. Would society allow a 14-year olds to legally drink? You are probably saying absolutely not, but once you start lowering the age it would become a very real possibility. At what point does it stop? Everything has a boundary. Most 18-year olds seem responsible around adults, but most 18-year olds lose that adult responsibility aura, as well as their still maturing common sense, in a group of peers. As mentioned above, ask the people who deal with reality and statistics that back them up. Insurance companies have young drivers at a higher premium rate for a reason.

No, the drinking age should not be lowered; if anything, we should consider raising the drinking age back to 25 along with the raising the driving and voting age. Drinking, like driving and voting, is a privilege earned when society believes a person can make sound judgments (and please do not argue the voting one being a right not a privilege, it really is a privilege that our forefathers fought and died for to give and preserve for future generations that were not "rich land owners"). It's time that all of society's age defining privileges should be equal in age obtainment -- the older the better. Sandie and Garry

Yes, I totally believe the drinking age should be lowered to 18. If you are old enough to die for your country and everyones freedom then you are old enough to drink. If you are old enough to vote and help elect the govenor and the president then you are old enough to drink. END OF STORY!

Apparently alcohol is much more dangerous than firearms, hunting, or 2 ton chunks of metal hurling down roadways. If you cannot trust young people to handle alcohol where they can harm only themselves, then how on earth can you trust them with guns or cars where they can and do hurt the general public every day?
It is an attitude problem, not an age problem. Take away the myth that alcohol equals adulthood by lowering the age and get them aquainted with it while they are still under parental guidance (like 16 for beer and wine as in Europe) and the initiation rites in college will simply vanish because they become pointless.

Absolutely not !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Normally, I would say ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! However, in today's world where these young adults are mixing together at colleges, the alcohol is going to be available whether we like it or not. My son (20) has four roommates and three of them are over twentyone. There will be alcohol in their house and there is not much that I can do. My best influence is to explain to him the harmful affects of alcoholism and over indulgence.

I think either 18 or 21 doesn't matter, kids will find their ways to drink anyway. But keep it 21 would be better. Why a 18 yrs-old need to drink when they enter college? Ain't they busy enough for starting a whole new life and study? If college is too easy for them, i recommend to increase the work loads at school, keep them busy and it will benefit their future and education anyway.
If college equals to freedom, that's wrong! that's the beginning of entering adult life, be more responsible, more work, more stresses...etc
And drinking isn't a way out! Grow up, kids~

Think about it. Only the places where drinking is discouraged and Illegal at young ages are the places where major drinking problems are prevalent in young adults. Lowering the Drinking age to 18 would benefit the universities as well as the students. On a college campus, the number one offense is Minor in Possession (MIP). This requires Immediate discipline by the university and the Student Loan agencies which results in loss of financial aid. The students need to pay the fine then face the prospect of leaving school if they don't have the money. If people are gonna drink they will drink, the laws that are in place don't protect anyone. Take the emphasis off alcohol and it will be less of a problem.

I grew up where the legal drinking age is 16 and the legal age to actually learn to drive is 18. I survived .. not a big deal. Don't know what everyone is making such a big deal about

Alcohol should be illegal. Legalize marijuana instead.

It should stay 21 and voting should be moved to 21 also. Today's 18 is yesterdays 16.

No. What is the next question?

How about a little change instead of a big change like to 20 or 19. A three year jump seems like a lot. My kids really grew up between 18-20. I think 20 is just about right. An adult privilege a little sooner may encourage them to try to be good and earn the privilege rather than wait forever to 21.

Yep, lower it to 18. As many have said, 18-21 year olds will still drink no matter what the laws say. Part of the desire for minors to drink is because it is taboo. Make it a common and legally accessable thing, and you won't have as many problems.

If this lowering of the drinking age isn't universal, I hope they lower it for military members only. No matter how you feel about the drinking age, isn't it strange how you can have a gun in your hand and told to kill your enemy, but would get punished for drinking a beer?

Living in southern CA in my late teens, I'd drive to Mexico to drink legally. With all the problems in Tijuana as of late, I don't think I'd do that now.

It definitely should not be lowered. As a matter of fact, I think the age that kids get their drivers license should be raised to 18! Any of us older than 25 realize how immature we were at 18. It's tough enough as it is to be a teenager, let alone give them more adult responsibilites.

Once again our highly paid college presidents have stepped out to show their cowardliness to put their foot down on a problem such as the drinking age on their campuses. I don't care at what age drinking and driving is ... all one has to do is look upon our highways across this great nation and the carnage that drinking and driving creates. I can think of a couple of accidents on highway 26 (Washington State), the road of death as some call it, from drinking and driving. Some will say, just keep this limit on campus, but what happens during holidays, summer break, or just weeks. I don't care if it's alcohol or drugs, if you want it ... you will find a way to get it. With the mix of ages on campus ... someone will risk their previlege of being of age, to buy and put a few bucks in their pockets, to buy for the under age. Someone in a previous message eluded to the cell phones and what drivers will do with them and drive ... let along drink and drive.
Shame on the college presidents ... have some guts folks. You make the big bucks ! Now show us that you deserve it !! and not succumb to popular demand on a situation that can have deadly consequences to your decisions.
When something like this happens, I often wonder ... how much of this is created by the beer and wine manufactures for the college to make a few bucks. Think about it folks, the campus hub will how have a bar ... for every sale the college will receive ... hum ... one begins to wonder why a dicision like this come along. Pretty much mirrors our political mess.

If a young man or woman is old enough to vote, old enough to fight and die for our country, how can we say they are not old enough to be responsible?

Which is a more important act, combat or drinking a beer?

Do we really want to send this message to kids? Here, voting is the most important act in a free society. Be responsible. Vote. But you're too young to drink.

Once again we legislate to lowest common denominator. Just because a few have a hard time controlling themselves, everyone must suffer.

Having grown up in Europe where drinking and sex are made into such huge issues, this whole thing is silly.

Lower the age limit. It makes more sense than the nanny rules we have now.

When I was 18 in the U.S. Navy the drinking age was 18 and it was a disaster. When sent to a new command almost everyone had serious drinking problems. We should not go down this path. As far as Europe, in Germany once you drink and drive you lose your license for life. That should be a discussion instead of this calamity for our youth.

Actually, when I was in the military, you could drink on base if you were 18 - but you could not buy unopened/packeged liquor, beer or wine unless you were 21. You could get it by the drink in the EM club (bar) or hit the keg someone brought to the softball game. Since drinking on/near campus seems for me to be a law that's barely enforcable (it can but what are you going to do - arrest 200 college students for drinking or bust the meth lab down the street?) maybe a compromise that from 18 to 21 you can drink legally but not buy anything unopened until your 21. It seemed to work in the military... but again that was some time ago when we used horses to get back and forth instead of cars.

We should not lower the drinking age....We should be tougher on drunk driver's..Far to many people are dieing on our highway's from drunk driver's now......Giving teen's car key's and booze is shear madness...

I don't think we should lower the drinking age, I believe we should have our children in our homes a little longer. Most eighteen years olds can't hold down a job, too flighty, and if they need mom and dad to make their car and insurance payments how can we say they're adults. Maybe we should re-think the adult status and raise it to twenty-one? As they used to say on television when I was a kid, "Do you know where your children are"? We should all be more aware of where and with whom our children are "hanging out". Isn't it our job in the end to make sure they become productive adults, because most of them can't do it on their own.

Not only NO but HELL NO!!! there are enough ignorant 21yr olds out there that ack like they are 18 and still in high school, the last thing we need are more kids out there being completely retarted and starting more trouble, I work in a bar and to tell you the truth I would not let some of these 25-30yr olds drink, you know you gotta have brain cells to kill brain cells, but yes lets lower it to 18 I think America need a little bit of population control!! what do you think?

BTW .. I think that there should also be an upper limit for alcohol. 50 and you're out.

Very true!! although it is very amusing watching a 50yr old get up and try to dance to the new age rap!! haha!!!

Personally I think it is stupid how the people in college are using the military as an excuse for them to drink at 18 years old. On the other hand, being in the military myself, I believe that it is ridiculous that I could die tomorrow and can NOT buy a beer. In my opinion I could care less if the drinking age is lowered for civilians. Half of you are right they will drink regardless. Although I would like to see a change for the military. Some of you say its not responsible for military to drink. Yet you trust us with the protection of your everyday life. John Doe will die in Iraq at age 17 and I will say again 17 for people that didn't know you can enlist at that age and he will never know what its like to legally buy alcohol. This October will be my three year mark serving in the military. Now you tell me who is responsible and who deserves to drink alcohol at what age.

I don't see how it can be anything else besides 18. Isn't that the age of majority? Voting, military service, etc. It doesn't really matter whether there will will be more or less drinking because of returning the age to 18. If 18 year-olds are too young to drink then they are too young for the other adult activities, period. Make up your minds, because you can't have it both ways.

Todd actually has a good point .. you are not allowed to drink a beer (behold you might get drunk and pass out) .. but you are allowed to go into the army .. go to war and actually shoot and kill another human being at 18.

Todd ... you probably couldn't have said it any better.

My nephew's college will not send his grades to his parents who foot the bill, but they sent them a note when he was caught with beer. What are they supposed to do? He is an adult. Why notify them? Students can have surgeries, attempt suicide, get married in the campus chapel, have babies and many other things and no one will tell their parents. But God forbid they have a drink. RAISE THE AGE OF MAJORITY FOR EVERYTHING TO 21 - including continuing their medical coverage.

I beleive if our kids are old enough to fight in the war for the united states they should be old enough to drink..

Parents rest assured your child is going to go off to college and study!! YEAH RIGHT!!
I am from Montana and went to school when the drinking age was 18 and everywhere else in the country was higher. Kids came to Montana to go to school just because of that. NOT because of the academics.
It was a huge party back then and it will be again.
Who in the H thought of this one? University presidents who were going to school 25 years ago when the drinking age was 18?
Quite frankly I think it should be raised to 25 so all these kids in college have to do is study.

After reading through all the comments .. it simply comes down to this .. there is a double standard when it comes down to beer / legal drinking age.

One can marry, attempt suicide, have babies, sign up for army/go to war and kill a person, buy a house and go bankrupt when they are 18 and no one can stop them .. but they cannot have a beer without having people freak out.

I agree that it should be returned to 18, but i doubt that will happen. I think that 20 some odd years ago when the Feds threatened to cut highway funding to states that didnt comply with the "suggestion" of raising the minimum drinking age was government blackmail at its finest. When the federal government starts punishing individual states for something they don't see eye to eye on is when the "land of the free" becomes the "land of the feared". SCARE TACTICS 101. MY suggestion would be to just meet in the middle! Make the drinking age 19 or 20. Or make it the way it was INTENDED and leave it up to the individual states. This is why im leaving USA, its the most corrupt nation ive ever been to.

I think it is a bad idea, there are those that say if I am old enough to fight for my country why can;t I drink well maybe that is an idea make it legal for those that serve our country they have earned it. Those that just think that is what people do at college are wrong you are there for your furture.

I think we should raise the legal age to purchase alcohol rather than lower it. It seems to me that many people of age at this time can not handle, what makes anyone think that lowering it is a good idea? I believe that 25 would be better than 18 or 21 personally.

The drinking age should be left alone, in addition to the voting age at 21.

How about we raise the age that someone can enter the military to 21. At least that way we are consistant. Lets pick an age of responciblity and stick to it. Of course if we raise the age of "sexual" consent to 21 we'd have a serious problem enforcing that.

Thinking of some middle ground. 19 years old, if you've graduated highschool. 21 if you haven't. That goes for all of the age stuff. Drinking, Military, and age of consent.

You've got to be kidding! Is our state and country going nuts? We already have enough ignorant and selfish adults above the age 18 drinking, driving and risking the lives of others. Even though someone who is 18 is considered to be a legal adult, it seems that maturity levels are declining in america. This is due to the lack of accountability and direction given in their developmental years. The guidence is just not their! Both parents are working and kids are being left to raise themselfs with no accountability. I think the death toll will increase dramatically in the drinking age limit is lowered. I would really hate to be able to say I told you so.

There is no reason to lower the age of drinking. I dont even want to think about what highschool would have been like had the seniors had access to alcohol. Do parents deal with their highschool seniors "senioritis"?? Don't you think that adding alcohol to that will make things worse? People are currently concerned about their childs education...who would throw alcohol into the mix? That's like putting lime juice on an open wound!

I have no problem allowing an 18 year old to vote and smoke - those things don't kill others (the smoking will only kill themselves over time). If an 18 year old wants to join the armed forces, go right ahead. Just because they choose to do that doesn't make them an "adult" that should be able to drink.

Underaged drinkers are going to get their hands on alcohol one way or another....that doesn't mean we should make it easier for young people to get their hands on it. Let's just hand small lego parts to infants than shall we?

i dont think it matteres,kids are going to drink no matter what, and they will drink and drive, but its not the whole age thing because there are plenty of you so called"adults" that are of age, that are out killing people every night from drinking and driving. so whats the difference if an 18 year old does it or if a 35 year old does it.... If you want young kids to do better you have to set a better example!!

I think they shoild lower it. I mean it's just a drink. If were 18, we conciderd "ADULTS" witch means, why not drink? It makes noo sence to me whats so ever. I think were smart anough not to drink and drive. The people who do if this does pass, are not useing there brain, and just risking their lifes.

I dont think it should matter whether the drinking age is 18 or 21. kids are still gonna drink no matter what. They say 18 year olds wont be responsible,well neither are 21 year olds. I mean if they can draft or get recruited and go fight for there country and bleed and sweat there lifes over in Iraq why cant they drink? You can get tatoos at the age of 18 buy tobacco products and etc. There worried about illegal drinking age when they should be worrying about ILLEGAL DRUGS.

I feel that if they can go to war at 18, vote at 18 they should be able to legally drink at 18, at least beer and wine. If the US had laws more like some of Europe as far as the consequences when caught driving while drunk, we would not have the problem. Also if drinking was not considered Taboo to minors and they were brought up with respect of alcohol, we would not have the problem.

no way should they they lower the age for drinking down to 18. teens are to irresponsible for one.

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