The United States has the highest drinking age in the world it's 21. Three countries have set their minimum age at 20, one set it at 19, and the rest are 18 or younger.
I think that the drinking age should be lowered to about 18 or 19. Currently, we prohibit 20-year-olds from drinking champagne at their own weddings! Some teens say that it is easier for them to get drugs than it is to obtain alcohol. The determination of legality in drinking should not be age, but rather maturity and ability to handle responsibility. For example, there are many teenagers in the world that are considerably more mature than the average twenty-one year-old. The twenty-one restriction seems out of date in today's society. Many parents of today's teenagers were legally allowed to drink at the age of eighteen. Today's teenagers face more responsibility and are treated much differently from the way their parents were treated. …
