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Drinking Age

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cincibuck

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You kids stay off my lawn!
If my 25 years in high school teaching taught me anything it is that the 21 drinking age is a laugh. I've yet to hear of a lack of access to beer by students. What I'm wondering is if it would not make more sense to go back to the days of 3.2 beer. In the sixties you could by 3.2 beer on your 18th birthday.

You had to drink a ton of the stuff to get whacko, though hormones, inexperience with alcohol and party mentality made many of us act like we were drunk.

It created a situation where bars in college towns could cater to that clientel. It eliminated some felony offenses such as forging legal documents. Perhaps being able to purchse kept us away from hard liquor... at least I was pretty willing to stay legal... why risk arrest for 6% or hard stuff if you could legally drink 3.2?

You were motivated to get your draft card to prove you were 18...

I know that there is some research on the correlation of early drinking and alcoholism that would push against the idea of allowing any form of drinking at age 18, but it seems to me that this (age 21) is a law that most of America winks at now.
 
Shoot I was buying beer from the bait shops in Deleware County at 16. I really feel 18 is a correct age. Maybe the maturity isn't there but, the U.S. Army doesn't seem to care.
 
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If I'm 18 and I know that A) 3.2 beer isn't going to get me drunk the way "normal" beer or liquor will, and B) that I have relatively easy access to the real stuff, why would I bother with 3.2 beer? It would be easier to lower the drinking age.
 
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ScriptOhio;897713; said:
I agree. Just on the basis that if you are old enough to enlist in the army, go to war, and (possibly) die for your country; you should be old enough to drink a 3.2 beer.
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Old enough to vote, old enough to die, not old enough to have a beer after a hard day in the hot sand, never made any sense to me. If we trust those kids with the ability to pick a president, or make the decision to kill a stranger in a strange country, we should allow them to reward themselves with a cool one if they wish. If it makes us all feel better about ourselves for allowing it, then fine, lower the alcohol content. It seems to me they would probably just drink more of it.
 
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Adults should have the rights of adults. I usually tend toward fewer restrictions on behavior, and heavier penalties as a consequence of action. The law is supposed to prevent things like drunk driving that are illegal anyway... so don't waste time going after people for having beer at 20, but make it very bad for them if they cause an accident as a result.
 
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I am sure that everyone already knows that the reallity of the stuff is that there are very few %6.0 beers on the market today. Molson Ice is only 5.5.... Dom's today are averages (I'm guessing mostly) around 3.5 to % 4 . I did bartend for a very long time so it is atleast an educated guess.

Now, having said that, there are those who I think should be allowed to drink at 18, also those who should not be allowed to drink until they are dead. Alcohol affects everyone differently, unfortunately our society cannot seem to deal with it on a case by case basis until you screw up a multitude of times. I have seen too many people of legal age who are very very cool until they start to drink and then become total assholes.
 
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gregorylee;897858; said:
unfortunately our society cannot seem to deal with it on a case by case basis
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i used to deal with it on a case by case basis in my younger years...


yes i think a lower drinking age should be in place. 3.2 or 19 something. in my view some of the drinking issues arise from coolness of something that is illegal for the younger kids. i also think that sending kids to the bars is a better (more expensive) way to deal with kids in college than keggers at a house party. but what do i know?
 
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