What age, who's decision, I don't know exactly but it must be applied fair and apply to all or none.
To enforce an arbitrary age limit that assumes adulthood, it must apply to all areas in life not subject to nit picking, dog barking opinions or religious viewpoints.
As a child the parent is responsible and liable for all the child's actions and activity, not thy neighbor, not thy state. Once assumed an adult, the parent is relieved from this burden and it's laid on the shoulder of the free man / woman to direct there own life they see fit.
A separate age limit for drinking, to vote, working, military service, driving, sexual activities, accountability for wrongdoings, financial liability and taxes is confusing at best.
Once deemed an adult, the individual should be free to choose whatever they want regardless of what parents, studies, clergy or whatever, show or what anyone else thinks, it's called thinking for one self.
By the time I was 18 the drinking age was 18, it later went back up to 21 long after I was 21. It did not make me an alcoholic.
The fact is no matter what the legal age limit was then or now, weather those under 21 will choose to drink or not will be made by each individual person.
In fact, just because its against the law it creates a difficult situation where it forces youngsters to binge drink rather than social drinking.
The law, the drinking age, is in fact only an inconvenience to those out of high school and in there college years, they are going to do it weather it is approved or not, like it or not, hell or high water.
So we will continue to see binge drinking on weekends by our youth, putting there health and lives in a more dangerous conditions than would be otherwise if drinking was not so demonized and regulated.
Many a youth today have also turned to smoking pot, abusing prescriptions and using street drugs as an alternative to drinking because it's easier to conceal than say a 6-pack.
Every time we create a new law we push some into a corner and spend a fortune enforcing our will on others, in fabricated politically correct sounding ideals.
I'm open to debate and further comment and more than happy to hand anyone there own butt if need bee.
Tax reform comes from law reform, less is more and even lesser is morester bestist.
There, pick on my grammar because there is not much else to debunk in my view.