[memefluzit]

i'm curious, plus, i need 30-50 pieces of data for a simple stats project.

so,

HOW OLD DO YOU THINK THE LEGAL AGE FOR DRINKING REALLY SHOULD BE?

i think that 18 is really good. 21 is so old (compared to the 18 adult age) that it's so tempting for young people to illegally drink. and look at how much the US's drinking problems are! countries with lower legal ages have less of this problem.
but that's just an opinion.

soooo how old do you think the age should be for legal drinking? and for fun, why?

[JENNiFER*]

18.

but who cares, everybody drinks anyway.

[mz simmonz]

I personally think 21 is fine. Sure it frustrated me when I was in hs and the early years of college but I really do think 18 is too young for everyone to be drinking legally.

18 year olds = still in or fresh out of high school...that's how I look at it.

as for the other countries lowering the drinking limit...maybe it works for them but kids are brought up differently here, might have a different effect.

[loveletters4U]

21 is ok, cause no matter what people are gonna drink illegally anyway

[Antz]

here it's 18, and i find it okay.
but yeah, everyone drinks anyway. :/

[chharrllenne]

I think 18...
i mean cigs are 18 right? ahha, why not

[Mentality]

I think 21. People are going to illegally drink anyway so let's prevent less people from drinking legally =). When you're 21.. you can think a little.. clearer than an 18 year old.

[HeffyEnd]

18, like everything else. I always thought 21 was random. You can get your own place, join the army, smoke a cigarette and have sex with a 40 year old.. but you can't drink!

[minie_k89]

i think it should be 18...
having fun at 18 too...

[hyperrchic]

here it's 18.
and i'm fine with that,
i think it's fair.
but everyone drinks anyways,
the legal age limit doesn't stop them.

[sphynkter]

it should stay at 21. there would be so many more drunk driving accidents if it was made legal at 18. yes, people already drink illegally at 18 but changing the law to 18 would only encourage them to drink which is a big no. i choose to not drink so that is why i'm fine with the age 21 drinking law.

[deevyne_]

Honestly, I think 18 and 21 is too young.
Maybe because of everything I've seen on the news and all the accidents caused by alcohol.

I know for youth, it may be tempting to drink illegally, but I think that anyone near the age of 18
might not know how to drink maturely. I read about many accidents involving people from the age of 16-18, all alcohol related.

Someone said before in a post that 18 are kids coming right out of high school, which is true.
I am 20, I'll be 21 in a few months. Before.. I couldn't wait till I became of age.
Now I don't drink anymore but look at the law and the required limit,
I see it in a different way and I think that 21 is appropriate enough.

[chubzzy]

20.

it's like u're allowed / legal to drink when u hit the big 2.

[dazzleanddestroy]

i started drinking around 8th grade.. and you know what? I got tired of it.. i started things at an early age, and it seems like i'm an old granny now.

anyway, i think 18 is a good age. in other countries, they're even 15(plus, they don't have a problem like we do)
US kids drink still, no matter what age. ><

[Yukita]

i don't think we should have one at all;
i feel that after the initial wave of accidents and incidents related to alcohol subsides,
everything will even out. i mean, look at europe. :| they're doing fine. HAHAH


but that would never go in america;
make it 16 or 18.

[supereggytoast]

It should stay at 21 because I see my friends getting drunk and participating in really stupid things.

If it was 18 from the start, alcohol wouldn't be a problem right now. But since it wasn't, teenagers would not be able to handle this new sense of freedom.

[emma007]

I really don't care, since no matter what the legal age was, I really do not feel it would help our drinking issue. If you raise it then people are still going to want to drink illegally. If you lower it then people are going to be like, hey its legal so I can drink all I want, and then you will just have younger and younger people drinking illegally. But since you wanted a number I will just say we should stick with it being 21.

[suehyun]

18.

but who cares, everybody drinks anyway.

[xoflora]

i guess i would say 18.
i mean, you're old enough to join the army and shoot people, right...?
but you aren't old enough to control your own alcohol consumption...

[memefluzit]

anyway, i think 18 is a good age. in other countries, they're even 15(plus, they don't have a problem like we do)
US kids drink still, no matter what age. ><

i was talking to my dad about this, and he was telling me about growing up in mexico where the legal age is 18.

"well...you're a kid, and your parents send you to get a keg...you see alcohol so often that it's not a big deal. so you don't have such a problem of kids drinking illegally."

the thing with the age being 21 is that it becomes a thrill for 18-year-olds and 17-year-olds to get alcohol in possession. and in countries where the legal drinking age is younger, you get exposure to it when you're young and you learn drinking ettiquete, it seems. it's not as much of a thrill and so then drinking isn't as much of a problem.