Quote Originally Posted by Coelho
Well... i also got infuriated when knew they are thinking about decreasing the age for drinking... DAMN IT!!!!!!
Why dont they think about things that would actually help the people, like legalizing the cannabis, or at least the medical use of it?
Decreasing the drinking age is at least a step in the right direction towards the realization that people (even young people) can think for themselves and should be allowed to take care of themselves. I understand not wanting minors to get hurt while under the influence of alcohol, but the responsibility to take care of kids should be with parents, not the government.

The first step might be decreasing the drinking age, a step towards letting kid's and their parents take care of themselves. Hopefully one of the next steps down the road might be to apply the same exact logic to cannabis... and getting the government out of the business of keeping people from protecting us from ourselves.

Hell, the next step should be to have *no* minimum drinking age. Just like countries where cannabis is legal have lower rates of use then America, countries where there is no minimum drinking age tend to have lower rates of abuse of alcohol as well. Citizens do a better job of taking care of themselves then the government.