Any chance the drinking age will get lowered to 18 any time soon?

[Jersey Devil]

70. I hope not

I know the argument about how if you are old enough to die for your country you should be old enough to drink, but I have seen first hand what happens with an 18 year old drinking age, which we had here in NJ for a few years due to those same arguments being made during the war in Viet Nam.

It is not so much the 18 year olds themselves that was the problem. It was that the 18 year olds were buying package goods for the 15 year olds and they would get drunk in public parks, behind movie theaters, etc. I was a local prosecutor during that time and saw many a case of 18-20 year olds being brought up on buying alcohol for younger teens. It's not a pretty (or healthy) sight to see kids in their mid teens passed out on the grass at local playgrounds or crashing their bicycles into cars.