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What would happen if the U.S drinking age become 18?

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It would be a disaster of biblical proportions. What do you mean, "biblical"? What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness!... read more

Drinking age is determined by the states, not at the Federal level. So this wouldn’t happen as an all-at-once national change dictated from above. And in many states the drinking age used to be 18 (or 16, or none at all, depending on where and when you look in history). So we already know what “would happen”. read more

The legal drinking age in the United States has been 21 since the National Minimum Drinking Age Act in 1984. When President Ronald"Just Say No" Reagan signed the act, he issued a blanket requirement for all states to raise their drinking age, or risk losing highway funding from the government. read more

If the question was whether to lower the drinking age to say, 15, this would be a much different conversation. But the mere three years between 18 and 21 doesn't make that big of a difference. It's pretty much the same brain -- physiologically, and psychologically. read more