“You can vote. You are an adult. You can smoke. You can drive. You can live on your own. You can join the military. But there is one thing you can’t do at 18...legally buy alcohol! In the US the law is that you have to be 21 to drink any type of alcohol.” “But of the 190 countries 61% have a drinking age of 18 or 19. And most have less recorded alcohol related deaths than the US.” “This is because anyone under 21 sees alcohol as a “forbidden fruit.” The curiosity leads to more people under the age of 21 drinking anyway. Also countries such as Italy, China, Greece are some of the countries where the legal drinking age is lower and they seem to have fewer alcohol related problems.” “Current law in terms of legal drinking age …show more content…
It can then be supervised by police, security guards and health workers as well. And if you are legal to get married at the age of 18 and end up getting married, you are not allowed to drink in your own wedding?! That doesn’t sound right!!” “Also drinking under the age of 21 is seen by most 18 years and older as a sign of adulthood. They are allowed to do everything else and call themselves an adult and they don’t want to be stopped from being an adult when it comes to drinking.” “ And even though it is usually said that an 18 year old has less tolerance as compared to a 21 year old. Although this might be true, in most cases you don’t really know how much you can handle as long as you try it out. Tolerance doesn’t come with age, tolerance comes with realization of responsibility and there are people that are more responsible at 15 than some are at 50.” “ Also if the legal drinking age were to be 18, colleges would be able to regulate alcohol use so students don’t get overly intoxicated. They can be monitored whereas when they are hiding and drinking you can’t really go sniffing their cups or making false