re: Can anyone logically defend the 21 drinking age law?

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There is no way to prove causation.

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it clearly states it in the study.It doesn't fir your narrative so therefore you can't prove it.

Show me a study that backs up your narrative.You've just been shown 2 that refute your arguement.

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it clearly states it in the study.It doesn't fir your narrative so therefore you can't prove it.

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The study is irrelevant.

Raising the age to 40 would reduce deaths too.

Changing all highway speed limits to 35mph would reduce deaths.

Single variable thinking is stupid

Cool. My kids, particularly the oldest who is Valedictorian this year and has been offered several top tier academic scholarships, are not even into alcohol.

As a result, this big issue that you find yourself at odds with is a non issue for me. It is only discussed when an adult that they know or know of has their life turned upside down because of drugs/alchohol.

I don't need the government to tell my kids common sense. They just follow mine and my wife's example.

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t. I also cannot justify the criminalization of Marijuana and prostitution

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Like Carlin said, selling is legal. fricking is legal. Why isn't selling fricking legal?

I think the age of majority in the US should be 21 for everything...including military service. That's also including drinking, gambling, porn/adult entertainment, contracts, recreational marijuana consumption, driving(only 21 if job related...hazmat etc.), and voting. I would like to see a mandatory service provision for all US citizens prior to the age of 21. In short, you would have to volunteer your time with an approved national relief organization (Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity, SPCA etc.), join the national guard, or pay a tax in order to skip service. We are not talking immense amounts of time. Additionally, those that do not participate in cannot receive government benefits EVER or run for public office (which should NEVER count as public service as described above). I realize the drinking and the weed will be hard to enforce, but at least it would make everything consistent. My thoughts on the national guard being from 18-21 is to limit the issues concerning our active duty personnel, to have a better trained and more mature military, and to give our states a larger national guard to assist with disasters at the state level. The buyout phase would be per year. You want to buy out one year, that's ten grand, two would be 100k, and all three would be a cool million. I wouldn't want these programs to interfere with advancing an education so the one weekend per month/plus two weeks consecutive weeks per year would apply. I figure if people have to put some elbow grease into making the country great they may think more highly of what we have. Just my .02.

And they do drugs, which are often easier to get.

It also creates some absurd situations. Since 21 is the drinking age, many (maybe all?) places also require a person to be 21 to serve alcohol. There is an exception to this, at least in some places, for "emancipated" minors. Here's the absurd result:

Emancipation is an action by which a person who is not an adult can be given the full powers of an adult to manage his own affairs, enter into contracts, etc. Since a person is an adult for all such purposes at the age of 18, emancipation is only available to people who are under 18, i.e. "minors".

So, a 14-year-old can become emancipated and be able to serve alcohol, but a 20-year-old can't.