[freedumb2003]

An 18 year old can pick up a gun and risk his life in islamic countries but can’t pick up a beer.

More than a little unfair (and stupid).

[gdani]

An 18 year old can pick up a gun and risk his life in islamic countries but can’t pick up a beer.

An 18-year-old can also sign contracts, get married, buy & sell property, be sent to prison, be legally executed & on & on.

But no beer.

[Second Amendment First]

What this cruel 1984 law did is deprive young people of safe spaces where they could happily drink cheap beer, socialize, chat, and flirt in a free but controlled public environment. Hence in the 1980s we immediately got the scourge of crude binge drinking at campus fraternity keg parties, cut off from the adult world.

When I was in college in the late 60's the 21 age limit was the law in that state. There was a tavern in town that was not too stringent on enforcing it. When we would drink beer there it was a social event where good food was available. That contrasted with the binge drinking that occurred in motel rooms and cars elsewhere.

[research99]

A smart teen can read a book, buy some grain and yeast and a homebrew kit, and make his own regardless of whether he’s 18 or not.

[dalereed]

In the late 70s Michigan had 18 as the drinking age and it was a total disaster!