Drinking age

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No, it should not be lowered.  While it's not perfect, it helps keeps immature kids from drinking before the fully understand its effects on the body and judgement.  Of course, this is the same reason that in most places, you cannot rent a car until you are 25.

I don't know a single person who the drinking age stopped from drinking. The only people under 21 who don't drink are those that have no interest in it whatsoever and don't want to even when they are over 21. Not to mention statistics in universities show that there is absolutely no difference in alcohol comsumption for those 18-20 and 21+. That's true in my case, I don't drink any more than I did before I was 21.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

My parents did that (actually they went much further, they let me drink however much I wanted whenever I was home as long as I didn't leave the house), and I had no problems. Never driven drunk and am certainly not an alcoholic.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What's my problem? You probably do consider me an alcoholic or something, although if this were true I'd be getting trashed every day. I actually haven't had a sip of alcohol since Saturday and haven't gotten seriously drunk in more than 2 weeks.