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What age (not legally) do people start drinking in America?
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I get WAAAAY into my own head when I smoke pot -- It's really a bad time.
and then the next day I'm all anxious about all the thoughts I had, and stress out a lot.
I'll take a headache for a few hours in the morning over the feelings I have when I'm high.
And I don't know how much BETTER pot is for you.
Pot is a pretty funny drug. I have one friend who flips out and often starts crying when she smokes simply because she thinks too much and begins to think that nothing is real. I have another friend who bounces off the walls and is extremely... uh.... friendly when he smokes. I have one friend who smokes all the time and somehow managed to become class president. Personally I don't like to make a fool of myself so I usually just find someone who is ridiculously gone and talk to them so I seem smart (at least to them.) Or I plop down and watch television. Sometimes I do dumb things, but... well I profusely apologize the next day.
My mom gave me my first couple sips of beer at 6 since I was so curious.
From that point on whenever my dad would send me to the kitchen for a beer I would take some sips (secretly) and then bring it over to him.
Drank with friends in high school from 16 and on.
Not so much now though at age 22.
From that point on whenever my dad would send me to the kitchen for a beer I would take some sips (secretly) and then bring it over to him.
Drank with friends in high school from 16 and on.
Not so much now though at age 22.
how come your thanking us? im just curious
Because I'm sick of all the people crapping on about how stupid it is. It just gets old.
grow up, it's no where near as dangerous as alcohol, nor does it make you as stupid.
I started when i was 15-16ish during sophomore year(im a senior now) and the secret to getting away is learning your limits ans sleeping over haha....just remember that its good in moderation. I dont see why the united stated is one of the only western nations that feels the need to make the drinking age over 18....seems ridiculous too me
I started when i was 15-16ish during sophomore year(im a senior now) and the secret to getting away is learning your limits ans sleeping over haha....just remember that its good in moderation. I dont see why the united stated is one of the only western nations that feels the need to make the drinking age over 18....seems ridiculous too me
In The Netherlands the legal age for buying alcohol is 16. Some kids start drinking at 15 however.
My parents let me have a glass of wine at christmas and new years, but no other time. Personally I don't think that it can hurt anyone in their teens as long as they drink responsibly (which most people my age wouldn't do). I'm jealous of you Brit's, you get to start drinking at 16!
Don
Don
And what qualifications, pray tell, do you possess that would give you the prerogative to make such a claim?
The legal age here is 18 mind, that doesn't stop most people from starting early.
Under adult supervision, and in moderation. And what qualifications do you posses that would allow you to judge my claim? I'm sorry, I just don't agree with the whole DARE MADD alcohol is the scourge of the earth, reinstate prohibition view. Most European countries don't give a damn if a child drinks under adult supervision, so why here in the united states, do we press child neglect charges on parents that allow their children to have a glass of wine at dinner occasionly? I'm just saying that people in the US overreact to alcohol. I understand that alcohol can kill and destroy families (i have witnessed both), but there is no reason to have a mass hysteria over alcohol. I kid in my school district was suspended because he was seen drinking (with parental consent) at his parents christmas party, because the head of MADD at our school freaked about it.
Don
I thought you could drink beer and wine at 16, and 18 for hard liquor? I was mistaken.
Don
16 year olds can drink Wine, Beer, Cider in a pub, with a meal. They cannot purchase the alcohol though, an adult must buy it for them.
Technically, anyone over the age of 5 can drink alcohol at home in the UK. You have to be 18 to buy it though.
16 year olds can drink Wine, Beer, Cider in a pub, with a meal. They cannot purchase the alcohol though, an adult must buy it for them.
Technically, anyone over the age of 5 can drink alcohol at home in the UK. You have to be 18 to buy it though.
Thanks. As I said I envy you. And 5? Really? That's well... wow!
Don
The burden of proof lies with you, the one making the claim, not me who is questioning the claim. You made a factual claim but provided absolutely no evidence but your own opinion based on anecdotal understandings. It would be no different than me claiming that "I personally don't think dolphins are mammals."
And again, what evidence can you provide which would support your claims? You act as if drinking among teens in Europe isn't a problem, but I assure it is. In fact, European Youth Drink, Get Drunk More than U.S. Youth.
I love Europe; I've been to Europe and I have family in Europe, but I'm tired of hearing from both sides that drinking is a larger problem in the U.S. because "we don't grow up appreciating it from a young age." It simply isn't true.
And again, what evidence can you provide which would support your claims? You act as if drinking among teens in Europe isn't a problem, but I assure it is. In fact, European Youth Drink, Get Drunk More than U.S. Youth.
I did NOT act as if drinking among teens in europe is a problem. All I said was that we (the US) is the ONLY western country that has it's drinking age set that high. In my opinion, it;s due to hypocritical yuppies that say that alcohol is the scurge of the earth, but then go home and down a cocktail every night. Once again this is an opinion if you need to please refer to the definition of opinion that was stated earlier in this post. And once again you manage to make an incorrect assumption (there's an old saying that assuming "makes an ass out of you and me"), stating that you have family in Europe and act as if no one else does. And if you really must know half of my family lives in Germany.
Don