How old should you have to be to........

[Redefeatbush04]

In your opinion....what should be the legal age to.....

1. Get drafted
2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages
3. Consume energy drinks (such as red bull)
4. Smoke Tobacco
5. Smoke Marijuana
6. Own a firearm
7. Purchase pornography
8. Have sex with a 23 year old
9. Get a drivers license
10. Gamble
11. Get a job
12. Watch a rated R movie

[Defarge]

1. Get drafted - 18
2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages - 18
3. Consume energy drinks (such as red bull) - i defer to the scientific community on what's healthy or not
4. Smoke Tobacco - 21
5. Smoke Marijuana - it should not be legal
6. Own a firearm - 16 for more basic weapons, 18 for the heavier duty stuff
7. Purchase pornography - 18
8. Have sex with a 23 year old - 18
9. Get a drivers license - varies from state to state (it's alot safer to drive in Nebraska than NY) but either 16 or 18
10. Gamble - 18
11. Get a job - 14
12. Watch a rated R movie - 16

[Speed of Sound]

1. Get drafted-never
2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages-16
3. Consume energy drinks (such as red bull)- birth
4. Smoke Tobacco-13
5. Smoke Marijuana-18
6. Own a firearm-18
7. Purchase pornography-13
8. Have sex with a 23 year old-18
9. Get a drivers license-16
10. Gamble-13
11. Get a job-13
12. Watch a rated R movie-13

[ilikeverin]

1. Get drafted
923874923874923874592436792083059826309862039846023986502986

2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages
18

3. Consume energy drinks (such as red bull)
0?

4. Smoke Tobacco
18

5. Smoke Marijuana
2304972305620938650982360498620985620398562093865029385

6. Own a firearm
2938749682938750982370598723097023958709238750923875098237
or 18

7. Purchase pornography
18

8. Have sex with a 23 year old
18

9. Get a drivers license
18
 
10. Gamble
18

11. Get a job
13
 
12. Watch a rated R movie
18 (standardization more than anything else)

[Emsworth]

1. Get drafted
I oppose conscription

2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages
18

3. Consume energy drinks
No legal age

4. Smoke Tobacco
18

5. Smoke Marijuana
I oppose the legalization of marijuana

6. Own a firearm
18

7. Purchase pornography
18

8. Have sex with a 23 year old
18

9. Get a drivers license
18 (with learner's permits earlier)

10. Gamble
No legal age

11. Get a job
14

12. Watch a rated R movie
No legal age

[Redefeatbush04]

1. Get Drafted - NO DRAFT
2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages - 19
3. Consume Energy Drinks - 12 (i dunno it can't be healthy)
4. Smoke Tobacco - 18
5. Smoke Marijuana - 19
6. Own a firearm - 18
7. Purchase Pornography - 16
8. Have sex with a 23 yr old - undecided (i guess 17)
9. Get an NJ drivers license - 17
10. Gamble - 18
11. Get a job - 14
12. Watch Rated R Movie - 16

[DanielX]

1. Get drafted - preferably never, but 18
2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages - 18 for purchase/drinking in public establishment; 13 or younger for religious or private use
3. Consume energy drinks (such as red bull) - no law unless science proves something suspicious
4. Smoke Tobacco - 18 or maybe even 16
5. Smoke Marijuana - 18
6. Own a firearm - 13 with parental consent, else 18
7. Purchase pornography - 18 for hard-core, 13 soft-core
8. Have sex with a 23 year old - 16
9. Get a drivers license - 16
10. Gamble - large-jackpot 18, else no law
11. Get a job - no law for small-stuff, else 13
12. Watch a rated R movie - no law with parental supervision; else 16

[Jake]

1. Get drafted - 16
2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages - 25
3. Consume energy drinks - 18
4. Smoke Tobacco - 21
5. Smoke Marijuana - 150
6. Own a firearm - 18
7. Purchase pornography - 25
8. Have sex with a 23 year old - 21
9. Get a drivers license - 18
10. Gamble - 16
11. Get a job -14
12. Watch a rated R movie - 14

[Emsworth]

Let me ask all of you: why should the government restrict children's access to movies based on MPAA ratings in the first place? It strikes me as censorship; in any event, the MPAA is not a government organization.

[dazzleman]

1. Get drafted  -- 18 (to serve in military, with or without draft)
2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages  -- 18
3. Consume energy drinks (such as red bull)  -- No age requirement
4. Smoke Tobacco -- 18
5. Smoke Marijuana -- Illegal at any age
6. Own a firearm  -- 18
7. Purchase pornography  -- 18
8. Have sex with a 23 year old  -- 18
9. Get a drivers license -- 16/17
10. Gamble  -- 18
11. Get a job  -- 16/ 14 for small very limited jobs
12. Watch a rated R movie  -- 17/18

[Frodo]

1. Get drafted 18
2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages 18
3. Consume energy drinks (such as red bull) No opinion
4. Smoke Tobacco 18
5. Smoke Marijuana 18
6. Own a firearm 21
7. Purchase pornography 16
8. Have sex with a 23 year old 18
9. Get a drivers license 18
10. Gamble 21
11. Get a job 16
12. Watch a rated R movie 18

[dazzleman]

Let me ask all of you: why should the government restrict children's access to movies based on MPAA ratings in the first place? It strikes me as censorship; in any event, the MPAA is not a government organization.

Censorship means they can't put the movie out at all.  Restrictions, though they don't work, are simply intended to reinforce parental control.

It bothers me to see the term censorship misused, and I imagine you're picking it up from people in the entertainment industry who call any type of rating system for the filth that they put out censorship.  There's nothing wrong, and a lot right, with trying to protect impressionable children from what is being put out by Hollywood.

[Redefeatbush04]

2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages  -- 18
5. Smoke Marijuana -- Illegal at any age

This doesn't make sense. What harm can come from smoking marjuana. It has very similar effects to alcohol except your happier, hungrier, and can still carry a conversation.

[dazzleman]

2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages  -- 18
5. Smoke Marijuana -- Illegal at any age

This doesn't make sense. What harm can come from smoking marjuana. It has very similar effects to alcohol except your happier, hungrier, and can still carry a conversation.

Dude, I just don't favor drug legalization.  I know the arguments for legalizing marijuana.  Maybe they have some merit.  But I have seen so many lives ruined by drugs that I just can't bring myself to accept it.

Of course, I've seen many lives ruined by alcohol too, but it seems that more people can control their drinking without too many ill effects.  Once people get into certain drugs, they do things that are simply unconscionable.  I recognize that marijuana itself is not one of these drugs, but overall it has bad effects, and I can't see the point of encouraging the spreading of an already bad problem.

[A18]

1. Get drafted
105 sounds reasonable

2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages
0

3. Consume energy drinks
0

4. Smoke Tobacco
18

5. Smoke Marijuana
18

6. Own a firearm
18

7. Purchase pornography
18

8. Have sex with a 23 year old
18

9. Get a drivers license
16

10. Gamble
0

11. Get a job
0

12. Watch a rated R movie
0

[Emsworth]

Censorship means they can't put the movie out at all.  Restrictions, though they don't work, are simply intended to reinforce parental control.

No, I would say that any form of restriction is censorship.

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I feel that it is the parent's duty to protect the child, not the state's. It is not the business of the government to act as every child's nanny, telling him what he can or cannot watch.

[PADem]

1. Get drafted - 18
2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages - 20
3. Consume energy drinks (such as red bull) - No limit
4. Smoke Tobacco - 18 (if you are stupid enough at any age
5. Smoke Marijuana - 18 (as above)
6. Own a firearm - 18 (as above)
7. Purchase pornography - 18 ($10 Opebo answers 12 to this one)
8. Have sex with a 23 year old - 18
9. Get a drivers license - 17
10. Gamble - 21
11. Get a job - 15
12. Watch a rated R movie

[PADem]

2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages  -- 18
5. Smoke Marijuana -- Illegal at any age

This doesn't make sense. What harm can come from smoking marjuana. It has very similar effects to alcohol except your happier, hungrier, and can still carry a conversation.

Dude, I just don't favor drug legalization.  I know the arguments for legalizing marijuana.  Maybe they have some merit.  But I have seen so many lives ruined by drugs that I just can't bring myself to accept it.

Of course, I've seen many lives ruined by alcohol too, but it seems that more people can control their drinking without too many ill effects.  Once people get into certain drugs, they do things that are simply unconscionable.  I recognize that marijuana itself is not one of these drugs, but overall it has bad effects, and I can't see the point of encouraging the spreading of an already bad problem.

I think that it is quite well accepted that physiologically Marijuana is not that dangerous a drug (unless a VERY heavy user)

However, most objection is that once one experiments with Marijuana, it is used as a stepping drug if you will, for harsher drugs. I remember back in high school (and I was at a more affluent school) that there were parties I'd go to where people would be smoking marijuana, and on occassion lines of coke etc. Similarly when I was in college (and I haven't been out of college long) the same applied.

If Marijuana was legalised I belive we would see an increase in use of really bad drugs such as cocaine, ecstacy and GOD FORBID meth.

[Max Power]

7. Purchase pornography - 18 ($10 Opebo answers 12 to this one)

No, he'll say no limit.

[nini2287]

1. Get drafted-18, but hopefully never
2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages-18
3. Consume energy drinks (such as red bull)-0
4. Smoke Tobacco-16
5. Smoke Marijuana-undecided about legalization
6. Own a firearm-vary by state
7. Purchase pornography-16
8. Have sex with a 23 year old-18
9. Get a drivers license -vary by state
10. Gamble-online:0, slots:16, regular casino-18
11. Get a job-depends on the job, anywhere between 12-18
12. Watch a rated R movie-15

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

1. Get drafted - never
2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages - 18
3. Consume energy drinks (such as red bull) - always
4. Smoke Tobacco - 18
5. Smoke Marijuana - 18
6. Own a firearm - 18
7. Purchase pornography -16
8. Have sex with a 23 year old - 18
9. Get a drivers license - 14
10. Gamble - 16
11. Get a job - depends on the job
12. Watch a rated R movie - 14

Before anyone calls me crazy for saying 14 for a driver's license, let me point out that is the actual age in North Dakota. (it's actually 14 and 6 months because you must have had a learner's permit for 6 months and you can get that at 14, but that's just neccesary to meet a requirement, not a legal restriction.) But I didn't get my license until I was 15.

[Max Power]

1. Get drafted - I oppose the draft
2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages - 16
3. Consume energy drinks (such as red bull) - No age
4. Smoke Tobacco - 16
5. Smoke Marijuana - 16
6. Own a firearm - 18
7. Purchase pornography - 16
8. Have sex with a 23 year old - 16
9. Get a drivers license - 16
10. Gamble - 16
11. Get a job - 13
12. Watch a rated R movie - No governmental limit

Wow..... That's the same as mine....

[KillerPollo]

1. Get drafted - 20
2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages - 18
3. Consume energy drinks (such as red bull) - 18
4. Smoke Tobacco - 18
5. Smoke Marijuana - 18
6. Own a firearm - 18
7. Purchase pornography - 14
8. Have sex with a 23 year old - no limit
9. Get a drivers license - 13
10. Gamble - 15
11. Get a job - 12
12. Watch a rated R movie - 13

[MaC]

In your opinion....what should be the legal age to.....

1. Get drafted
2. Consume Alcoholic Beverages
3. Consume energy drinks (such as red bull)
4. Smoke Tobacco
5. Smoke Marijuana
6. Own a firearm
7. Purchase pornography
8. Have sex with a 23 year old
9. Get a drivers license
10. Gamble
11. Get a job
12. Watch a rated R movie

3 no age although any responsible parent wouldn't allow anyone under 13 to drink Red Bull, 16 for 2,4,9, and 11, 18 for the rest.

edit-no draft, but voluntary service in the military should be 18+

[MaC]

1. Get drafted
105 sounds reasonable

since your 117 years old, I guess you'd be the only one here to be drafted