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Sure, lets get the prettty young girls and boys drunk and have fun with them

Sure I think the drinking age should be lowered. Lowered to 20yrs of age. I mean the least they can do is wait till they're out of their teens. I just don't think younger people should be drinking until they have chance to get their life started off on the right foot.

I think we have enough wrecks anand trouble with drinking now. Some teenagers do not think or act resonable when drinking.

Absolutely YES - if those under 21 can risk life & limb in the armed services they damn sure ought to be able to purchase a six-pack of long-neck ice cold Budwiser at their local C-store.

If anything, drinking should be higher than 21 years of age. I started drinking at age 18 in the Army. I consider myself an alcoholic, who have been drinking for over 30 years. I have been to Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs, in and out of jails, could not keep a job, and as of today have nothing in life to show for over the years. Just say no to alcohol and drugs, and put God in your life. Man can'nt solve the world's problem, only God can!

Yes, absolutely. There are so many reasons the age should be lowered to 18. For one, most baby boomers that are parents of college kids now were allowed to legally when they were 18. 2: It is easier to get illegal drugs in this country than it is to get beer underage, and there is something fundamentally wrong with that! 3. College kids, and high school kids are doing it every day anyway with it as a law. The more you restrict something the more the cause for rebellion. I lived in Europe for a summer when I was 16 and it is no big deal over there for a kid to drink at that age, and therefore the kids don't see it as a big deal! I've loved the taste of beer since I was 16 and I did it illegally for 5 years. If we lowered the age here, kids wouldn't have to view it as "I'm 16, I can legally drive, but I have 5 more years until I can drink. Or I'm 18, i can vote, serve in the military, get married, etc...but I can't drink." I when I was in high school and in college. 4: lowering the age will drastically reduce binge drinking. Why the hell would you binge at something you could legally do any day of the year in that 3 year gap between 18 and 21.

When I was serving in Cambodia, I could neither vote nor drink, except in New York. I resented it, but that's the way it was. Now the voting age is 18, which is good, but young people don't exercise the privilege much. But they certainly do drink.

What no one has talked about is the link between drinking and driving. Wasn't one of the reasons that the drinking age was kept at 21 while the driving age stayed at 16/17 in most states because of the high percentage of DWI and driving deaths involving driving among people between 18-25?

Maybe the drinking and voting age should be 18 and then raise the driving age to 21 or more. Think how much easier it would be for the troopers to identify whether someone had a license or not rather than having to make a judgement call about their sobriety.

I being a bit silly, but ask that none of us forget that link between drinking and driving deaths for young people during the discussion.

When I was serving in Cambodia, I could neither vote nor drink, except in New York. I resented it, but that's the way it was. Now the voting age is 18, which is good, but young people don't exercise the privilege much. But they certainly do drink.

What no one has talked about is the link between drinking and driving. Wasn't one of the reasons that the drinking age was kept at 21 while the driving age stayed at 16/17 in most states because of the high percentage of DWI and driving deaths involving driving among people between 18-25?

Maybe the drinking and voting age should be 18 and then raise the driving age to 21 or more. Think how much easier it would be for the troopers to identify whether someone had a license or not rather than having to make a judgement call about their sobriety.

I am being a bit silly, but ask that none of us forget that link between drinking and driving deaths for young people during the discussion.

Yes, the drinking age needs to be in line with other laws with being 18 years old. You can serve your country, vote and yes be put to death. How can we send our young men and women overseas to
countries where they can drink at 18 years old only to
to be told that once back home it's illegal.

In Germany the drinking age is 16. In most other countries it is lower than here as well. Realistically, if a person wants to drink a beer, he/she will do it anyway. The underage drinking law is violated constantly. It would be good to lower it to 18, which seems a fair age, although still many will still in fact start before that. But since the age limit of 21 makes some money (fines, etc.) for the powers that be it may be difficult to get it changed. It's really neither here nor there, as those who will drink will drink regardless, as they have done for thousands of years.

Keep it the way it is!

Gracious NO

It really doesnt matter because teens are going drink no matter the age, the police want allow it because thats how they make money

18-20 year olds who wish to drink need to learn how to integrate it into their lives in healthy ways. However, the concern with increased drunk driving is a significant issue. I would lower the drinking age to 18 but increase dramatically the penalties for drunk driving. Currently license is revoked on first offense for 60 days; may it something like 6 months. Currently, car cannot be confiscated until the 4th offense; make it the 2nd offense.

I really don't think lowering the age will do anything. The teens are drinking now. They have no problems getting anyone to buy them alcohol. I am more afraid of the the teens that are driving while under the influence of prescription drugs like Xanax, antidepressants, etc,

I'm 20, almost 21. Personally, I do think the drinking age should be lowered to 18. If you are old enough to go to war and choose who our next president is, I think you are old enough to drink alcohol. However, turning 21 is such a rite of passage in the US, and, say they changed the drinking age to 18 tomorrow, I would be upset only because I had waited 3 years to buy my first drink at the bar, only to make it legal for every 18, 19, 20 year old to do the same thing...i've been looking forward to this birthday since I turned 18 and went to college, so turning 21 would be such an uneventful experience...

If you can be killed in battle at 18, you can drink. Most of the people doing the complaining about drinking age were able to drink at 18.

Here's a good piece in Slate on the topic. What I take away from it is that research on drinking and traffic fatalities and so on shows that the drinking age matters less than other factors such as state and local enforcement and regulation... and higher taxes on beer (I don't think I like that last one). So in principle, the drinking age could be lowered to 18 if there were smart alcohol-control policies in place. But such policies are generally not in place on many campuses, and therefore keeping the drinking age at 21 is a sensible second-best policy.

I personally believe that the drinking age should be lowered to 18 because like everyone said if you can fight in war, vote, get married and all of that stuff why not be able to drink??? people drink anyways so why not legalize it..the more they tell ppl not to do it the more they're gonna do it.. i think that if they made it to where 18yr olds could drink a lot of them would slow down on it becasue a lot of them do it just becasue its illegal for them to do it.. its like cigaretts used to be illegal and now the're sold everywhere to 18 year olds..

i think that if an 18 year old can go to war die for there country get married vote for the next president they should be able to drink but increase the penaltys of drunk driveing