Jersey Girl

The Drinking Age: Should it be...

increased (say to 25)
decreased (say to 18 )
remain the same (21 years old)

Proponents of keeping the drinking age at 21 or increasing it further contend that alcohol-related crimes and accidents have been reduced since the drinking age was raised in the early 80s. http://www.madd.org/stats/0,1056,2353,00.html

Those wanting to lower the drinking age contend that statistics are skewed, that you can serve your country, vote for president, but can't have a legal drink. Only four on the entire planet. Ukraine, South Korea, Malaysia, and the United States have a 21-age limit to drink. All other countries have lower drinking ages, and many don't have any drinking age at all.
http://www.indiana.edu/~engs/articles/cqoped.html

So, thoughts?

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Shane H

18

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Jersey Girl

Poll of the day with no poll.

Could someone fix that for me, please and gracias!

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Shane H

WTF?

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Jersey Girl

Yeah, I suck!

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nidan

18

When you considered legally an adult, that should be the end of the story.

Pushing the age out just makes drinking a bigger deal rather than normal part of life. That creates more problems than anything

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DogTv

CardFan67

and.... 25+ Always make the rules more strict than they should be because no one follows them anyway... it may raise actually drinking age from 16 to 20.

jenna2891

18. no reason why i should be allowed to fight a war and not have a drink afterwards. or, for that matter, if i can get married without my parents permission, i want to legally have champagne at my wedding.

wallyburger

I thought 1

meant 10.

Get it over with. The younger the better. They will either like it or not. Better if they do their first DUI on a bicycle.

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KloD

jenna2891

even if they don't reduce the age, i'm all for that.

Rivercard

Why? They have already been toughened in recent years.

KloD

Anyone with a few grand can buy thier way out of a DUI. That a person can rack up many is a joke.

40% of all traffic related deaths are alcohol related, so the laws are not keeping people from getting behind the wheel.

Rivercard

Yes, but our whole justice sytem is class driven. Isn't there an automatic loss of license for a period of time after a certain amount of offenses?

Ryanwb

I say keep it the same.... 18 years old isn't a mature age, especially for men. 18 year olds can barely drive sober, no need to add in the decision of if they've had to much to drink or not