Should the drinking age for BEER be lowered to 19?

[ADLER]

Would young adults actually be safer if the drinking age for beer was lowered back to 19?

Texas raised the drinking age to 19 in 1983 for the expressed reason of keeping alcohol out of high schools. A year later, a national drinking age of 21 was invoked, and any state that opposed it was threatened that they'd lose their National Highway Funds.

A group called the National Youth Rights Association is working to get the drinking age lowered in Missouri not only because they view it as form of age discrimination, but also because it could enhance safety for young adults.

19 is the new 21. It's time to consider a lower drinking age.

There may be benefits to it. In olden days police would crash parties, make sure everybody is behaving properly, and make partiers turn down the music: and that was even at high schooler's parties. Nowdays, kids are resorting to liquor, or even worse illegal street drugs, because those are easier to conceal, and because the prosecution is just as severe for possession of a beer.

Would a brief alcohol awareness course like the one suggested in the article making drinking beer a revokable right be beneficial? Would intoxicated students more readily be brought to medical assistance if there wasn't the threat of legal persecution? Would this help curb the more dangerous opioids problem and chemically enhanced vaping affecting our country's young people?

Or, would it make things worse?

What are your thoughts and ideas?

[Coffee and TV]

Voting and tobacco at 18. Alcohol, military and weed at 20. 

[cousin oliver]

I feel like if you can die for your country you should be able to drink and smoke dope responsibly.