CRAZY! I think this idea is isane. Teenagers can barely hold jobs let alone support a drinking habit. I would like to see an 18 year old be responsible- I see more teenagers getting money from their parents and mooching off rich friends or family... I guess this is what the new generation is about more freedom less rules. Why not make smoking marijuana legal too?

So 18 year olds are mature enough to carry weapons and kill others for the U.S. Military but not able to go to a bar and have an adult beverage...i guess if you don't want 18 year olds crying out for the drinking age to be lowered, then the age where people attain legal adult age should be raised..i also have problems with our society and court systems in general...i constantly see in the news that prosecutors are trying to charge 14 and 15 year old kids as adults, yet when drinking is discussed they have no bones about keeping the drinking age at 21 (as do our politicians). Where is the uniformity, how can you deem a 14 year as an adult, but not adult enough to drink, just adult enough to kill or commit some other violent crime. it seems the 21 year old drinking age is more out of convenience than anything else. That being said i think the drinking age should be moved to 19 or 20 NOT 18. We do not need our high school seniors going out to bars (they would never make it to class). 19 or 20 is college age when kids are on their own, and except for a very small percentage, people who are going to drink will start before they are 21, there are very few people who drink now, that waited until their 21st birthday. And stop with how kids today have no responsibility and how can't possibly hold down a job, speak for yourself. It is not our fualt our parents worked their butts off to provide for us. As a recent college grad (dec. 07') i appreciate all that my parents did for me, i am motivated to work so that i may one day be able to provide for my future children as well as my parents provided for me. So i dont want to hear that today's kids do not have any responsibility, because the generation before yours was saying the same thing about your generation.

To anyone over 21....we were underage once too. Do you really think anyone that young could determine how much booze they can "handle"?

I did my heaviest drinking after I turned 21 and still couldn't handle it. Was sick every night I drank. I know kids who never drank and sure made up for it once they got to college. Kids just like to show off and college is a perfect place to do it....no parents. If they would lower it they are just going to want to go out all the more just as they do when they turn 21.

High School grad gifts to consider.....Brand new car of choice (they will accept nothing less) their own insurance policy, oh and a case, no keg of beer.