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I had a thread about this, yes it should be lowered, but remember, this is a global forum, some countries have a drinking age of 18 already and probably don't want it any lower than that. You should probably revise the title to "Lower The US Legal Drinking Age".

I could go on and on about why it should be lowered in the US and how stupid people are for thinking otherwise. But in my other thread, it seemed as though everyone agreed with me so there's no need for any detail. It should be lowered.

The French drinking age seems sensible. 16 for beers and cask ales, 18 for wines and spirits. You can drink a single glass of wine at the age of 8 if you're ordering it with a meal and are accompanied by an adult (18 or older). UK is similar, all drinking is 18+ and you can have a drink with a meal if with an adult at 14, but I think that's a bit too strict. I was drinking at 16 and honestly, if it was legal I'd have drunk more sensibly. Now 10 years later I'm tee-total, so yeah, drinking young isn't so bad.

It doesn't matter to me really. If you really want it, you'll go out and get some way to actually get some ^___^

Well in Australia it's 18. I don't mind the drinking age law, but the law where you can't drink on other peoples private property is bullshit :FU:

I say keep it at 21. If it was lower you'd see a lot more deaths from drunk driving. A main part of serious teen crashes is from the influence of alcohol, and that's when it's illegal. It would skyrocket if they could get their hands on it legally.

Exactly, the drinking age here is 17 yet, as a 15 year old (myself) I see loads of teens drunk out of their mind! I live in a very small country so every time NYE comes around you always here about a huge car crash, kids are killed etc.. Why? Because the driver was drunk.

Drink driving is already illegal, deciding the legality of a substance based on the number of people who commit a crime is quite frankly stupid. That's like saying we can't sell tomato sause in the glass bottles anymore because people might use the bottles as a weapon. If drink driving is such an issue why let people drive so young. The can of beer isn't killing anyone it's the fúcking car, so let people drink but don't let them have a car until they're 21... that seems more reasonably.

On top of that, not only is your justification weak, your reasoning is wrong. Having the age at 21 is ludicrous for a start. You can legally own a fúcking GUN at a younger age. But that aside. Crimes done under the influence of alcohol are statistically lower in places where the legal age is lower. Where the legal age is as low as 16 in some European countries, drink driving is lower, binge drinking is lower, alcoholism is lower. When you make something illegal you make it attractive to teenagers. I've honestly met 20 year old Americans on holiday in UK who get all stupid because we're having a beer in a bar, yet by the time a mainland European hit's 20 alcohol is just nothing special anymore.

Took the words right out of my mouth. So yeah...basically this ^^

I think it should be lowered back to 18 years of age. If someone under 21 want's beer can get beer anyways, so I guess it really does not matter.