legal drinking ages vary from country to country....is it a little extreme that it's 21 in the united states?
in canada it's 18/19 depending what province you live in. what's the legal age in your country?
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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.