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Lowering the drinking age to 18.
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Replies: 54Last Post Aug. 21, 2008 3:24am by BigMomma59
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Well there are a lot of people trying to get the drinking age lowered because they say that minors binge drink too much and if they could buy and drink legally they wouldn't have too.
I agree with this. Minors binge drink because it is something they can't have all the time. They drink more because they don't know the next time they will get to drink. Same as if you go to a nice restaurant you eat all of your food because you don't know the next time you will get to go.

MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) is battling this. They say that it will just make more kids get in cars and kill themselves or others.
That is complete bullshit. If it was legal, kids wouldn't have to sneak and drive back home drunk because it would be legal for them to stay at the party and spend the night. And if the cops came they wouldn't have to run to their cars and drive away paranoid. They could just turn down the music and continue to enjoy they fiesta.

If the drinking age was lowered than kids would start drinking when they still lived with their parents and somewhat have a guide to teach them about alcohol, kinda like when you get your driving permit. With it at 21 most kids are away and have no one with years and years of experience to teach them safety.

What is proposed now is that if you are 18-20 and you take a 40-hour class on alcohol and drinking safety you can get a licence to buy/consume alcohol.
MADD has said that this wont work. They compare it to the DARE program and how it failed. Well MADD you are retarded. The DARE program was not anything like the proposed program. They also say I quote.
"A 40-hour alcohol education course to teach 18-20 year-olds to drink responsibly will teach them nothing. In fact, it stands to create a situation in which teens overestimate their ability to handle alcohol. "
This is like saying that in health class when you learn about protection and the hazards of having unprotected sex. But what you get out of it is the mind-set that you can have all the unprotected sex you want and nothing bad will happen.

I think it is in America's best interest to lower the drinking age not only for economical reasons but to give the youth of our nation, who is quit possibly deciding the leader of our country for the next four years a little more respect.


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The drinking age IS 18 in the UK

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good point

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In canada there doing the same to 15

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The drinking age IS 18

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No. I just turned 21. I waited way to long for this

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I agree with you, when the age was increased the binge drinking stats increased, especially for people in that age group.



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drinking classes are a joke....nice avatar

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I think it should stay the same. I've heard both sides. And we're old enough to die in war, but dont give me a drink.

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I don't think that it would lower drinking for minors. To reinforce it and say that it's okay isn't going to help anything.

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Quote: from TronicChronic at 4:08 pm on Aug. 20, 2008

In canada there doing the same to 15
Bullshit they are.

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uk it already is

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they have a petition thing where you call 603 413 4131 and vote if you think it should be lowered or not


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I just posted on another thread like this.

But I say lower it.


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Drinking age here in lovely Canada is 19. Whee!

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