The drinking age being 21 in the USA is a great and should be worldwide, amirite?

Hate to break it to you, but most social events for 18 year olds in America are also based around alcohol. At least in Europe 18 year olds can drink in bars with adults around, when I was a teen in America we were out drinking in the woods or fields in the middle of the night. I literally don't know a single person who actually waited until 21 to start drinking. Having the drinking age so high just means teenagers, who are going to drink no matter what you do, have to obtain their alcohol in illegal or dangerous ways, and hide their drinking from the adults that could help them if something goes wrong.

by LivingTelephone 1 week ago

Laughs in Eastern European. By the time I was 18 I got bored of getting drunk, and instead preferred to drive. 21 is way too late. People drink regardless, might as well keep it legal

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you're old enough to die for this god forsaken nation, then you're old enough to drink/smoke.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

People start drinking at around the age of 16 in my country and nobody seem to care. Sometimes laws don't work lol.

by beiergarnett 1 week ago

I've never heard of someone waiting until they were 21. This law is just designed to keep annoying people out of bars and give small town cops something to do.

by Short_Neck_522 1 week ago

Same here. Had a couple of nights where I might have one too many, but I drink a few times a year at most. Alcohol being introduced to me early by my parents gave me a healthy outlook on it. Much better than your first alcohol experience being at a college party.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

We were drinking on a class trip with the supervision of our teachers in high school too in senior year. It was fun, none of us complained because obviously it was only a small amount. I think proper sex ed is a bigger issue than drinking alcohol at a younger age...

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'll never forget the time when I, as a male European, had to tell my american ex how the pill worked because she was only ever taught "abstinence only" sex Ed. She was 22 and older than me. Crazy stuff. Scary stuff. Kids need to be educated for their own safety.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yayks. True story. It's funny you can have sex by the time you are 18, but cannot drink until you are 21. Guess which might cause a more permanent problem... I did write my thesis about sex ed because I feel like people are not taking the problem seriously enough.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Where are you from, OP?

by Initial_Owl_7561 1 week ago

Yea.... Drinking age didn't matter for my buds. We got our brothers to hook us up from 17 on

by Agreeable_Dog 1 week ago

Drinking is still a huge problem in the US. It will never happen, but honestly prohibition was probably the right call. CDC estimate Alcohol kills about 178,000 people every year, That's far more than opioids. The only drug that kills more people is tobacco.

by bblanda 1 week ago

People still drink no matter the legal drinking age.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

There shouldn't be a law around it when you can join the military and drive a tank over people three years before you can legally drink.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'm from Germany and yeah I agree. I'd like if it was illegal to drink

by therese61 1 week ago

The fact that you come from a country of alcoholics is not due to a lower drinking age.

by Intelligent_Food2186 1 week ago