Will someone tell me why 21 years of age is the appropriate cut off, as opposed to 25 or 30? or 40?

Are you sure? I am not talking about being a bartender, I am talking about owning a restaurant that has a bar.

 

You may be right

 

I'm pretty sure you would have to get a liquor license which would probably require you to be over 21. Not 100% sure on that though.

I'm not sure making it legal for 18 year olds in the military would be quite right. That would be kind of like seducing 18 year olds to join up right out of high school, right? :lol:

 

In all seriousness, I don't have a problem with lowering the legal drinking age to 18. That is the age you become a legal "adult" so you should be allowed to make adult decisions. It is very easy for kids to get alcohol anyways...

I'm with HHSDad. I feel the same way this legislator does:

 

http://www.southernwine.com/OfficesNationwide/Ohio/OHHome/tabid/913/mid/2537/newsid2537/437/Default.aspx

I'm with MADD.

Just out of curiosity, will someone PLEASE tell me why 21 is an acceptable age?

Check the link I have above on this that shows that it does not work as it is believed.

 

I have my questions concerning the methodology of the data collection used to support the findings in the link.

Just out of curiosity, will someone PLEASE tell me why 21 is an acceptable age?

 

18 is the age, in all 50 states, at which it has been determined that a person can make adult decisions. Variation in the law causes it to be undermined. Shall we make different ages for the use of a gun? Ownership of a credit card? Informed medical consent? Statistics can support increased risk for those things as well.

 

Either you are an adult at 18 or you are not.

Just out of curiosity, will someone PLEASE tell me why 21 is an acceptable age?

 

I wonder how much of it is tied to the fact that 21 used to be the "magic age." Until 1971 (?) you could not VOTE in a national election unless you were 21. So for many years we sent 18 year old boys off to fight and die in Vietnam who did not even have the right to vote.

 

Maybe 21 was considered the age of College Graduation, maturity, property ownership. I don't know.

I've got mixed feelings on this one.

 

I drank at 18, but I was a pretty responsible kid. A lof of my buddies drank at that age also and it didn't turn out so well for some of them. It all depends on the person I suppose.

 

I agree with everyone who is saying if your old enough to go to war then you should be able to drink. I base this on the reasoning that if you are considered mature enough to be put through what soldiers are put through, to risk your life, to kill another man for your country and to see a buddy die beside you for his country, then I'm sure your mature enough to have a few beers.

 

You're considered an adult at 18. I wouldn't have a problem with lowering the drinking age.

 

Not being able to gamble at a Casino at age 18 makes less sense to me. It blows my mind that a 18, 19, or 20 year old man cannot take the money he has earned and gamble.

I've got mixed feelings on this one.

 

I drank at 18, but I was a pretty responsible kid. A lof of my buddies drank at that age also and it didn't turn out so well for some of them. It all depends on the person I suppose.

 

I agree with everyone who is saying if your old enough to go to war then you should be able to drink. I base this on the reasoning that if you are considered mature enough to be put through what soldiers are put through, to risk your life, to kill another man for your country and to see a buddy die beside you for his country, then I'm sure your mature enough to have a few beers.

 

You're considered an adult at 18. I wouldn't have a problem with lowering the drinking age.

 

Not being able to gamble at a Casino at age 18 makes less sense to me. It blows my mind that a 18, 19, or 20 year old man cannot take the money he has earned and gamble.

 

I agree. And the fact that someone 19 could go to the racetrack and gamble. :confused:

If a son can serve and possibly die for his country at the age of 18, his father should be able to drink a beer with his son before he departs.

I feel that anyone that is in the military that's under 18 should be allowed to drink, not other 18 year olds...I know that's weird but that's the way I feel.

I believe you have to be 21 to sell alcohol.

 

20 and a day, in KY

Well I do believe this is my first post in the P&R forum and here goes:

 

 

Anyone know anyone that has waited just till they turned 21 to take their first drink of alcohol? Not many that's for sure.

 

 

I see nothing wrong with 18 year olds to be able to drink alcohol but not be able to buy it. It's makes no sense to keep them from it sense a lot of teens drink during high school and when they get to college. No one is going to stop kids from drinking no matter how hard they try.

 

And some may say that the military argument is irrelevant but I disagree. If we can vote to decide who runs our country and go overseas to fight for our country then we should be able to relax and have a drink.

 

I may not have links or research to back up my point but there is just as many if not more people above 21 that get in trouble with alcohol than there is that is under 21. Source= college experiences.