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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.
Every state has their own history as far as the legal drinking ages go. North Carolina had no known legal drinking age prior to Prohibition. It was 18 after Prohibition, and it was 18 for beer and wine after the passage of the 26th Amendment, and 21 for liquor. Beer and wine was raised to 19 in 1983, and it was raised to 21 in 1986 after the passage of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. It has remained 21 ever since. Underage drinking is legal for religious purposes, medical purposes, and educational purposes.