At 16 we can drive.  At 18 we can go to battle and die for our country...

Drinking age should be 18.  

There's been a lot of trouble with college kids getting drunk and hurting themselves and other folks. This is why Colorado had raised the drinking age to 21.

Sep 16, 2009 -- 9:26PM, jane2 wrote:

Sep 16, 2009 -- 9:04PM, Roodog wrote:

There's been a lot of trouble with college kids getting drunk and hurting themselves and other folks. This is why Colorado had raised the drinking age to 21.

R-dog

Doesn't surprise me at all. My guess is much of this revolves around drinking and driving.

There have been articles on the effects of "binge" drinking, which is the type of drinking that occurs in many colleges and underage situations.  Kids tend to hurt themselves or others because of their inability to function or realize when they've had too much.

I live in Northwest Indiana, not too far outside of Chicago. When I was 16, drinking age in Michigan was 18, and in Illinois 19. My friends used to go to the state line to buy beer and wine. By the time I was old enough to drink in either state, the age had been raised to 21. Without adult supervision, we had a tendency to get pretty loaded at times. I rarely ever drink any alcohol these days. When I do, it's maybe a glass of wine, or a beer.

I found this article interesting. My oldest son is in Cambridge England attending college. He will be 22 on Sunday. When he first arrived, I asked him out of curiosity what the drinking age was there. He said it was 16 with a parent, or 18 without. He also said that it's looked down upon in that culture to drink too much in public.

It's my feeling that when something is not denied to any certain group, it's less likely to have the same appeal. When any group says, "we can have this, but you can't because....", it seems to me that prompts the group that can't have it to want it more. Seems like human nature, and you can even see it with groups of young kids playing. The odd one out usually wants what the others have. It could just be me, but as was mentioned in an earlier post, we have 18 year olds going off to defend our country. It seems to me that they should also be able to have a beer.

Oh (((Stardove)))....I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that. I remember when my ex was in the army. I hated the times we were apart.