Drinking Age

I have heard recently that some of our state officials and legislators would like to see the state of Minnesota's drinking age lowered to 18.

Investigating this a little I again found a Star Tribune article on the subject.

The basic idea behind the article was that by lowering the drinking age to 18 it could lessen binge drinking and prevent deaths.

Honestly to me that makes absolutely no sense. I personally can say that I dont drink, and I dont have anything against people that do, as long as they do it responsibly.

I think that these under age people who are going out binge drinking and hurting themselves or even dying are because there at an age where there not fully mature yet. It's just a game to them, there out with their friends and they think its cool to get "hammered" or "wasted" or whatever your preffered term is.

Now you wanna lower the drinking age from 21 to 18 and make it easier for them to get access to alcohol. I could be wrong but I just dont see the benefits.

Yeah, a lot of the times they will probably find a way to get the alcohol anyways, but at least make it tough on them.

Doing this your going to have high school seniors that are 18 able to go out and buy there alcohol and now instead of huge college parties where I think a lot of kids are getting this alcohol your now going to add high school parties where kids are going to be of legal age to buy their own alcohol. Doesnt seem like a good idea to me at all.

I cant speak for everyone but this article bothers me. Alcohol is already abused so much in our society I dont think we need to add to the problem.

I personally think this would do the exact opposite of its intent and only increase deaths and binge drinking.