Drinking Age Debate - Searcy, AR

opinion wrote:

A lot of teenagers under the age of 21 drink.. but that doesn't mean change the drinking age.. there is a reason why that law is there

I may be wrong but I think all teenagers are under the age of 21.

They lowered the drinking age to 18 in the 1970's and it was really bad.It wasn't long before it was raised back up to age 20 and shortly after that raised back up to age 21. And it has been age 21 since then.

Sharon Veber_Beaulieu wrote:

They lowered the drinking age to 18 in the 1970's and it was really bad.It wasn't long before it was raised back up to age 20 and shortly after that raised back up to age 21. And it has been age 21 since then.

Sharon, the legal drinking age in Arkansas has always been 21, never 18. It was 18 in several states, but the federal government's threat to cut off highway matching funds caused them all to raise it to 21, I believe Louisiana was the last to do so.

Kids are immature, I do think its unfair military members can sacrifice their life's and not drink so I think with a valid military I'd the vfw should allow military under the age of 21 but I don't belive they should lower the drinking age just give veterans special privileges kinda like searcy does Harding students

I spend a lot of time in Canada where the drinking age is 18. I haven't noticed any worse behavior there than there is in the states. In fact the bars I've been to up there don't seem to have as many problems as down here. Things like drinking age, gambling or whatever other moral dilemmas you can think of are only a big deal when you make them a big deal.