legal drinking ages vary from country to country....is it a little extreme that it's 21 in the united states?

18🇦🇺
Old enough to vote, old enough to drink

In my state someone under 21 can drink with direct supervision of a parent or legal guardian. In addition, the age for getting a bartender's license is 18. Go figure...

21 But at 18 you can vote, go to war , buy real estate, etc. but having a beer is too much for the nanny state.

The argument was that if you were old enough to go to war and vote you should be old enough to drink. Not sure why they didn't just use puberty as the age. Hey, at age 13 you're willing to put all kinds of things in your mouth so it might as well be sterile.

In Alberta it’s 18

It’s 18 here but most are drinking by 15. I find it more strange that you can have sex at 16 but can’t watch porn until you’re 18

When I lived in Ottawa on the border of Quebec we used to go over to the Quebec side where the age was 18 compared to 19. However they served anyone with lame fake ID or someone else's ID

I bought some in the supermarket and was asked to take the hood down on my hoody for the ID check, I'm 58! You wouldn't ask The Grim Reaper to take his hood off would you?

I wonder if the reason in the U.S is due to drink driving deaths ?
Maybe more disproportionate deaths on the road caused by younger people who may have been drinking.....

Still makes no sense if you can legally buy firearms or join the army and train to kill people at 18

it all came about because of 'madd'; they got the floor time and nobody could argue against them (is anyone really going to go after mothers in general? or stand 'for' drunk driving/) and they plowed through with legislation to withhold federal funding for infrastructure unless drinking ages were raised to 21 a good case study in laws that are driven by emotion and not facts, reason, or logic.

18 here but many youngsters still find ways around that

Legal drinking age used to vary from state to state. I always thought that if you are adult enough to serve in the military and risk your life for your country, you are adult enough to drink.

I wonder if in America they go by seven years your body changes thing. Idk if they do. But 21 wold be the third seventh year

Drinking in Iran is forbidden so that means you can buy drinks from anywhere without showing ID

@beermeplease i could be wrong bt in the united kingdo,m i thought is was eighteen but some pubs say it is twenty one and will ask for proof of age if there is any doubt

it's 18 here. 21 has always seemed way harsh to me 😶

23 years old here,if your a citizen and 25/26 ish if your a non national,£5.00 for a beer if a citizen and £10.00 if a non national all above too be accompanied with a valid driving licence or passport

Extreme, yes -- but it used to be different in the US, with different ages in different states, until the Federal Government got involved and told states that any state with a drinking age under 21 would lose Federal highways funding.

18 but the way some of these imbeciles are behaving, it should've been 21!

When I was in college in Georgia, the drinking age there had been lowered to 18, so I was able to drink as technically a minor.

In 1986, long after I’d graduated, it went back to 21.

Here it's 18 🇮🇱

I mean, if you want to get technical, the adult brain doesn't fully develop until the age of 25, so 21 really isn't that ridiculous.

I remember when the US went from 18 to 21, September 1985, one month before my oldest brother turned 18. I'll never forget the massive tantrum he threw, our mother almost had to call the police on him he got so violent.