re: Ronald Reagan decided 33 years ago that 18-year-olds can't buy a beer

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Hard disagree .

Drinking and driving is an epidemic in this country.. It’s still taken way too casually IMO and i still know people in 2023 who laugh it off and say they drive better ‘after a couple of drinks’… Until someone you know is maimed or killed by a selfish-*** drunk driver, you cant even comprehend .. there needs to be MUCH more of a stigma in this country with re to drinking & driving .

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But your tolerance is not the same aa my tolerance. I can drink a case of beer or liter+ of liquor and still type and spell perfectly. Whereas you would probably be passed out in a puddle of piss. The idea that .08 is the same for everybody is absurd. I went to detox for alcohol before beause I knew I would be sick coming down, and blew a .36 after I got there. When they checked a couple hours later, it had actually gone up because I chugged a couple more beers to stave off the sickness before I went in. I blew a .39 the second time. That was average drunk for me, a cop there spent the whole time talking to me and couldn't even tell I was drunk other than the breathalyzer.

People shouldn't drive drunk. But also, .08 isn't actually drunk for most people. Might as well make it 0 tolerance other than ruining people's lives because they drank 4 coors lights in 2 hours of they happened to get pulled over for a break light and the cop smells alcohol, so they test them. Driving just fine but over a theoretical limit on what constitutes as drunk. Here's a 10 dollar fine and loss of license, so now you can't get to work to make money to pay off the fine, so jail it is. Meanwhile, the cops and their friends drive over the limt every night out with the boys, but if they get pulled over they just flash their badge while getting out their idea, and it was just a misunderstanding, off they go.