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Originally posted by DeltAlum
For whatever it's worth, one of our long time chapter advisors is the City Attorney in a college town, and it is his opinion that the drinking age for beer should be lowered to eighteen in order to take the "thrill" of "breaking the law" away. It would make things a lot easier on the police and the courts -- at least in that situation.
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I agree with the this. I do think think the older one gets, the "thrill" of binge drinking disappears.
The legal drinking age is 19 in most of Canada (18 in Alberta and Quebec). I entered university when I was 19 (as were most Ontario students because of OAC). My residence allowed all alcohol (except for beer in bottles...cans were fine), so everyone who was of legal age (and I am sure some who were not) had alcohol in their room. I'll admit, that in my first year I was at the bar at least twice a week. When I returned for my second year, I hardly ever went out. Maybe I went to the bar once or twice every 2 weekends. I had other things to, and drinking till I puke wasn't one of them.
I still drink, but I don't purposefully drink to get drunk anymore, which I think is the real issue here.
So maybe instead of dealing with the drinking age (which I do believe is part of the problem) why we should start asking why is binge drinking "so cool"?