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Lowering the drinking age to 18.
Do it.
Replies: 54Last Post Aug. 21, 2008 3:24am by BigMomma59
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If you're an adult when you're 18, I think you should be able to do whatever you want, drinking including.

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i agree,  at the age of 18, young men and women can enlist in the u.s. military and put their lives no the line, but they can't even legally enjoy a beer. wheres the reason in that?

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I disagree.
Kids will still get into a car and drive home while drunk. 21 year olds and older do it all the time.
It's 21 for a reason.



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already 18 here, and ive just 17 and got SERVED go me :D


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

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

Haha, but the people who started this are student presidents of their colleges who are obviously over 21.

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I say keep it where it is.

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i think it should be raised to 80 yeards old.fuck drinking.BRING OUT THE BLUNTS

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Quote: from jsgirl at 4:12 pm on Aug. 20, 2008

Quote: from TronicChronic at 4:10 pm on Aug. 20, 2008

Quote: from jsgirl at 4:09 pm on Aug. 20, 2008

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

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

 

 Thats not what the legeslation of bc was saying. I doubt it will happen. I heard alberta and newfondland opted too


LOL. Bullshit.

Alberta is keeping the drinking age 18, BC is keeping it 19.
They aren't going to let kids who can't DRIVE or vote yet, buy fucking booze.


Yea, I doubted too, but thats just what they said

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The whole problem with this is that they don't want highschool kids going drunk to school.

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McCain wants to lower it to 18...

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I've been drinking since I was 11, I'm sure the legal age doesn't really matter to most, if you want to drink then you're going to drink.

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Yeah i agree the age should be brought down to 18. I mean you can buy cigerettes being 18, why not alcohol as well .
I think that less kids will end up getting massively drunk if it was lowered because it won't be like a thing to do as much on weekends b/c now you don't have to wait that long to be able to buy it so it's not like your going to be cool if you bought beer b/c it won't be illegal & stuff at 18.


I personally don't like drinking, never got drunk, & never had beer, only rum & like mixed vodka but I think kids my age abuse it too much just b/c of the fact they have to wait to be 21 & want to show off as well or w.e.

But i could care less if they lower it though, it just sucks that most clubs you have to be 21 & over just b/c they serve alcohol so it's like damn, atleast let it be 18 to enter, only at some places they do that. & then stupid teen nights which are horrible with so many younger people.

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Quote: from boom spencer boom at 4:11 pm on Aug. 20, 2008

if you lower the age it just makes it legal for them to binge drink.
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It makes so the cops cant punish them  


That would be true if the drinking environment was to stay the same but it wouldn't. Most Americans are 18 their senior year, still living with parents. And with parental guidence the kids would be able to learn to drink safely.

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Quote: from neverjeeps at 4:17 pm on Aug. 20, 2008

Quote: from boom spencer boom at 4:11 pm on Aug. 20, 2008

if you lower the age it just makes it legal for them to binge drink.  
  ANDANDAND  
 It makes so the cops cant punish them
 


That would be true if the drinking environment was to stay the same but it wouldn't. Most Americans are 18 their senior year, still living with parents. And with parental guidence the kids would be able to learn to drink safely.

What if there parents are alcoholics and abuse it?

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Fuck McCain.  McCain also thinks that if we would have stayed in Vietnam longer, that we would have won.  This isn't a political candidate debate, though, but I just had to get that in...

I don't understand why MADD is having a tizzy over 1-3 years difference.  It's like saying twenty-one is a magical age that turns on the good decision making mechanism in your brain, or some shit.  Regardless if it's eighteen or twenty-one, people are still going to make poor decisions while under the influence.  It has nothing to do with age, and everything to do with responsibility.

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