I started drinking when I was 18. Never felt the need to binge drink because alcohol was always more expensive than weed and the buzz from smoking was always preferable to the buzz from drinking. And I guess I'm fairly normal. The only time I've ever been drunk was last weekend and that's because I forgot to eat before drinking.
I say we treat drinking just as we do driving - it's not a right but a privilege. Lower the drinking age to 16 and stipulate that anyone under the age of 21 must undergo alcohol responsibility courses and receive certification before they can legally consume alcohol.
We obsess so much over prohibition but never about education.
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