Lower the drinking age ?

[Torque]

I agree, lower/raising the drinking age would be counter productive. My parents like the occasional drink, never seen them drunk, or even tipsy really, but from the time I was little they let me try what they were having and I thought it was disgusting. I managed to wait til I was 21 b/c I had no interest in it, there was no forbidden mystique, plus I'm a big fan of my liver. Hell, I graduated from Penn State having never gotten smashed, most people see that as a failure but I think its quite an accomplishment.

Oh, 2 of my buddies just got back from Iraq and they couldn't get alcohol anywhere while over there when on base, (one's 18, the other's 21); but when they got picked up to head to the airport to head home, the driver handed them each a bottle of Jim Beam