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No you are wrong. Please prove this, and don't pull magic numbers out of your ass.</p>
<p>You contradict yourself. You said that 1/3 of teens in accidents have some kind of connection with alcohol. Nevermind the fact that the studies are not clear what the connection is (having a passenger who is drunk..does that mean alcohol was involved?). In any case, 20 is not teen. So why isn't the age 20?</p>
<p>This is plain idiocy. When you turn 18, you can be handed a gun and go kill a few mofos abroad, but you can't have a good brew with a few friends? Does anyone find this just a tad disturbing?</p>
<p>eople under 21 ARE allowed to consume alcohol in the U.S. They just have to have one of their parents present (with permission from them). 21 isn't some arbitrary number the gov't pulled out of its butt; it's the age that people are generally mature enough to handle drinking according to research. Texas does a lot of research on the subject for "drinking and driving prevention" purposes and I remember from one study that either 1 or 2 teens in 3 killed in car wrecks in texas were involved with alcohol at the time. And you would be interested in giving kids EASIER access to alcohol? Maybe you guys should check out some logic courses at college.</p>
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<p>Im not sure if this is true as I had a firneds whos parents got arrested for alowing him to drink when he was 17.</p>
<p>you should all be honored to be handed a gun to kill a few mofo's if not your a ******* and you should move to another country.</p>
<p>Actually, your pre-frontal cortex isnt fully developped until you are 25.</p>
<p>So should we not be able to drive, drink, handle firearms, or hold jobs until we are 25, because before 25 the decision making part of the brain isnt fully formed?</p>
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you should all be honored to be handed a gun to kill a few mofo's if not your a ******* and you should move to another country
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Don't get all jingoist on me vinny boy. You don't even know what my position on wars and the military is. But I don't support any sort of a draft, if thats what you are getting at.</p>
<p>I would legalize MJ and tax it the same way we currently do cigs and alc. It would reduce crime, reduce the number of criminals we house and fund programs. While I have not done mj in decades, it's not new, it's not going away soon, so why not bring the product under control of the feds. </p>
<p>The people that want to do this stuff are still going to do it, why not bring the system out of the shadows and make it work?</p>
<p>Contradicting means to state something that directly goes against something previously stated, just so you know. Each fact I post doesn't have to cover every aspect of my argument. Haha, "no, you are wrong," I love the supporting evidence. Maybe I should try that in my arguments. "Hey, you are wrong." "You over there, you're wrong." </p>
<p>all of those studies were done in the 1970s and early 80s...over 20 years ago.</p>
<p>And Vinny, care to make any counterarguments or are you just going to insult me? because insults may be fun but your case isnt looking too good there buddy.</p>
<p>Opie, as I discussed before, alcohol is taxable because its dangerous for people to make it at home. Therefore it can only be produced by companies. If there are marijuana companies that are taxed...then people are just going to produce it themselves.</p>
<p>Bobbobbob, thanks for the support with your brain fact. </p>
<p>It hurts my argument, that we shouldn't lower the drinking age from 21, a lot less than yours that we should lower it.</p>
<p>By the way, I said "mature enough" to drink alcohol based on research. </p>
<p>Maybe, deep down, the government doesn't have a problem with 18 year olds drinking alchol. But the fact is that if 18 year-olds could legally consume alcohol, then so would much younger kids. If the government knows of this approximately 3-year trickle-down effect, then maybe it made the limit 21 because it knew that 18, 19, and 20 year olds would invariably drink as well. </p>
<p>From the link:
"The behavior of 18 year-olds is particularly influential on youth ages 15 - 17, as young people typically imitate the practices of those who are slightly older, rather than the practices of those who are significantly older.(10) Therefore, if 18 year-olds can legally drink, their immediate, younger peers will drink too."</p>
<p>I doubt that the government was that forward thinking with its implementation of a 21-year-old minimum age for drinking. The age was probably either the consequence of momentum (e.g. this was the age already used in a number of states), or pure coincidence.</p>