This always annoys me. I’m told the drinking age is 21 because a persons brain continues to develop into their mid 20s, but at age 21, technically the brain is not yet fully developed so what’s behind the magic number of 21? Does it make it safer to drink at that age than at 18? Why isn’t the drinking age 25?
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You’re right, it should be 25.
Where I am, drinking age is 19.
21 used to be the age of majority a long time ago (old enough to vote, etc) and coming out of prohibition, it was decided that you had to be an adult to take on the responsibility of deciding whether to drink.
As ages for other things have shifted, the drinking age hasn’t in many places in the US.
On top of this, 21 is when many people who go to college graduate.
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