re: At what age do you believe people should be allowed to legally consume alcohol?

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I don't mind kids drinking with their parents, but so many of these moron kids drinking, driving, and dying.

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I don't see how the drinking age reduces this. That's going to happen either way

You lower the accessibility slightly which drives up the binge drinking and bad decisions exponentially IMO

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however, that doesn't take into account that the brain isn't finished developing at 18. It doesn't matter if your parents supervise or not, the brain isn't fully developed and can be damaged by alcoholic consumption into almost the mid-20s.

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I don't really like this mentality of thinking that the government should make decisions for people because they know what is best. At least that's how I see it. I guess it's unavoidable in some respects, but I like to keep it to a minimum personally.

ETA: I'm not sure how practical it is in this instance anyway.

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president at 21, rent a car at 21

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Have to be 35 to run for president and government has nothing to do with at what age you can rent a car.

Should be a Sched I narcotic

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At what age do you believe people should be allowed to legally consume alcohol?

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14 with parental permission
16 without parental permission
18 to purchase

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18 for everything




Good enough to fight for your country, good enough for everything else.

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You can join the military at 17 with parental consent fwiw.

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Old enough to sign a contract is old enough to drink is a good argument; however, that doesn't take into account that the brain isn't finished developing at 18. It doesn't matter if your parents supervise or not, the brain isn't fully developed and can be damaged by alcoholic consumption into almost the mid-20s.

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Frontal lobe isn't developed until 25,but they're not pushing the drinking age back that far.

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So no consumer safety commission?

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These types of people may be well meaning, but they often do more harm than good.

16 but with stipulations. Certain GPA + extracurricular activity like sports or p/t job or something equivalent. Same with a drivers license.

After turning 18 when you enroll in college, trade school, or full time work after graduating HS/getting a GED you can then get your DL and are allowed to legally consume pot and alcohol.

If you want to be a dead beat and don't want to better yourself or work full time you can still participate at 21. You can get a DL smoke pot and drink.