(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Just to clarify, in the United Kingdom drinking laws require you to be 18 to purchase alcohol.

"The minimum age for the purchase of alcohol is 18. People aged 16 or 17 may consume wine, beer or cider on licensed premises (pubs/bars/restaurants) with a table meal. In England and Wales, it must be an adult who orders. In Scotland, no adult is required to be present. The legal age for the purchase of alcohol from an off-license (store/supermarket) is 18. (The legal age to buy liqueur chocolates is 16. but this is rarely enforced.)"

I personally feel that at the age of 16 you should be able to purchase alcohol.
Why? - Well by the time you're 16 you'll of left/be leaving school, that's a big point.
After leaving school you're now finished with compulsory education, you're deemed mature enough to decide and pursue any future education leading to employment, specialised or not.

If you're mature enough to decide whether you receive future education and whether you get a good job or end up on benefits, then in my eyes you're mature enough to decide whether you can drink alcohol or not.

Now I know what you're thinking "We have a 15/16 year old here who wants to drink but mommy and daddy won't let him"
A few things wrong with that:
1) I don't know my Dad Haha
2) I am allowed to drink. My mom purchases it occasionally for me.

One thing right with that sentence:
1) I am 15.

But the fact I understand the pro's and con's of being mature enough surely should justify my maturity.

What's your thoughts on the matter?

So why did you troll me in the first place? You made an assumption about me, remember? Whatever filled that blank, I don't care.

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Take a look at this. I knew Derek King. He used be in my P.E. class at my school back here. I have seen the consequences...

to buy in the uk u have to be 18 but look 21, its weird lol =D

In Aus, you leave school at 17-18, but and then you have to study for HSC corse, and apply for UNI/TAFE

Yeah when did i troll u, u came outta no where with some wierd buisness about being a light drinker...

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That dosnt have anything 2 do with me, so gf.

Come to The Netherlands, you only need to be 16 to buy alcohol

or better yet, why die with the cause involving alcohol? :wtf:

don't get me wrong, i love getting drunk, but getting hammered and driving is ****ing stupid.

i think it should be 16 to drink and smoke
i am 15 by the way

just go out and drink with mates :y: you can always get alcohol from somewhere

How old are you? Seriously? A comment like that is just beyond retarded and something a 12 year old would say. Anybody who has driven while drunk before will know they dont drive the same and is dangerous, so this says to me you have never driven while drunk, drunk being the keyword.

Disrespectful aswell, it's hardly exagerated when a family loses someone as a result of drink driving. Arrogance and lack of maturity like yours is what leads to accidents like these and you are a prime example of why the drinking age should not be lowered, if anything, it should be raised....

I'm just trying to figure out which one is you in your sig.....