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Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. The legal drinking age should be lowered to about 18 or 19 and young adults allowed to drink in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs and official school and university functions.
The other two countries are Iceland and Japan, which both have a drinking age of 20. The main problem with the United Statesâs having a drinking age of 21 is that the age of majority is 18 (19 in Alabama and Nebraska), as it is throughout most of the world.That is the age when a person assumes the legal rights and responsibilities of an adult.irst, it is not the federal governmentâs business to prevent any legal adult of any age from purchasing alcohol. If a drinking age of 21 prevents highway deaths of those who are 18â20, then the same argument could be made that a drinking age of 25 would prevent highway deaths of those who are 18â24.