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Drinking Age

I liek Squirtles said:
Thing is, even if it's kind of a pain to get alcohol, you still have kids whose parents keep it in their homes, and they drink from that stash. Is there any way to alleviate this? Obviously it can't be making the parents monitoring them more; most of the people who do that are in high school, so by that point their parents expect them to take care of themselves and such.
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Hell, my dad purchased alcohol for me for a year before I turned 21.
 
I liek Squirtles said:
Thing is, even if it's kind of a pain to get alcohol, you still have kids whose parents keep it in their homes, and they drink from that stash. Is there any way to alleviate this? Obviously it can't be making the parents monitoring them more; most of the people who do that are in high school, so by that point their parents expect them to take care of themselves and such.
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actual education that's not just fearmongering about how dangerous alcohol is.

seriously i feel like keeping it from being a Forbidden Thing'd do a lot more to keep people from abusing it than any large-scale attempt to enforce the drinking age. getting drunk is not super exciting. getting TOO drunk is definitely not the fun kind of exciting. 'this is alcohol; some types taste good, but a lot don't; if you drink too much, you'll regret it, both short term and long term; do not drink and drive' is probably going to be more effective than 'DO NOT DrINK ALCOHOL UNTIL YOU ArE 18/21'

I think I got blanket permission to grab a beer if I so desired at like 12 or something, haha. ... never DID, but a lot of alcohol tastes terrible to me, and I also have a low tolerance in general and no tolerance whatsoever on my current meds. But I did have permission, and would somewhat frequently have a glass of wine.
 
There are states that allow underage peoples to drink in a private home/place with parental consent/presence.
 
surskitty said:
getting TOO drunk is definitely not the fun kind of exciting.
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I had no idea that vodka and red wine did not a good combination make that night I drunkposted all over #tcod. I ended up throwing up and vowed NEVER DRINKING AGAIN because of how shitty it was.
 
Minish said:
my fav thing is that it's legal to drink alcohol here if you're 5

but 4s and under can just go right to bed
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man I probably would have literally died.

While we're talking about habits/preferences: I mostly drink (craft) beer and whiskey. Rum sometimes. I really don't like anything else, though I imagine that is likely to change.

Since I drink whiskey like, 70% of the time I drink, I'm pretty scared of potential development of a habit or dependency. :( Bleh I've tried to stop drinking a couple of times but I like whiskey too much.
 
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