>>>>>>I mostly agree with you Tracy. The only concern is about the legal age for alcohol. 21 is too much IMHO. If you can vote, drive and be considered an adult at 18, then you should be old enough to drink.
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>>>>>>>I have to disagree with a part of your statement. When dealers prey on kids there is indeed a 'victim.' Those fellas deserve to be locked up. Even if legalized, nothing should be legal for those under 18 or 21. Treat it like alcohol. The alcohol is legal to adults 21 and over, but driving under the influence or selling or providing to minors is not and should be treated as serious offenses.
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>>>>>For me it's simpler. If you can be enlisted in the army and told to go and kill people, you should be old enough to drink etc.
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>>>>That just gave me flashbacks of drunken soldiers stumbling along on the way to their barracks from the on-post pub or club (not an uncommon sight back in the day). I will agree, but with the stipulation that it is on-post only. There was a time when under 21 yr old soldiers did all their drinking on-post because it was legal on-post, but not off-post. It was legal on-post no matter the age as long as you held a valid active-duty id card.
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>>>I just figure in the laws of the land, if a person is old enough to kill for the state, he/she ought to be considered old enough to drink.
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>>Sure, that makes sense. But the car crash fatality rates involving young drunk drivers are pretty concerning. I know you can't generalize. Some can handle it responsibly at that age, some can't.
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>Pretty much the same with 30 year olds. Isn't it?

Very true.