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View Poll Results: Should the U.S. drinking age be lowered from 21 to 18?
Yes, it makes sense. 9 10.34%
Yes, if you're old enough to go to war, you're old enough to drink. 40 45.98%
Yes, because they're going to drink anyway... 11 12.64%
No, I'm not sure 18-year-olds should be given this much freedom. 11 12.64%
No drinks for anyone under 21! 16 18.39%
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Old 09-12-2010, 04:36 PM
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Default Drinking Age.

I've lived on the continent for a decade where the kids can go to the clubs and drink beer/wine at 16 and 18 for hard liquor. And frankly a beer in a restaurant is often cheaper than a coke.

From what I've seen they have less alcohol related problems than we do in North America. However that being said, the British seem to have a whole other culture that I've seen that makes their youth drunken idiots. Not sure what the drinking age is but getting drunk and throwing up seems to be the goal. Scandinavia has a similar experience. Both of the UK and Scandinavia taxes the shit out of booze. Perhaps the Psychologists amoung you know if this has some influence on the drinking culture.

My caution would be to greatly increase the penalties for drunk driving however so that the youth would take a cab/public transport or ride with a friend/parent home when they do over do it.

My vote is 16 for wine/beer. Nightclub entrance at 16 as a better supervised enviornment than house or bush parties with less likelyhood of things getting out of hand.
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