• LambdaDuck@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    that’s why you have different drinking age and buying alcohol in a store age. for example where i live you can drink when you’re 18 (which is considered adult for all other purposes) and buy alcohol from a store when you’re 20.

    what’s the usual age when people start drinking in the US? i’m assuming it’s way younger than the actual legal drinking age

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      1 year ago

      Misread your question. Many people start drinking in the US well before it’s legal. The horrible situations my friends got in to with seedy people to procure a case of shitty beer and some cigarettes were legion.

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      1 year ago

      21 to purchase in a bar or store. Kids under 21 can drink with their parents in attendance in some places. I think I remember a 16 year old could have a beer with their folks at a bar in Wisconsin, but that may have changed.