Lowered Drinking Age
...The differences between the background histories of the drinking laws are different for each country and each country has different views on the drinking laws. The United States has taken several different actions with the legal drinking age. On January 16, 1920, the 18th amendment was put into effect.Legal Drinking Law At what age should a person be allowed to legally purchase or consume alcohol? This is one the most heated and debated topics in the United States. Other countries do not seem to have quite the debate that the United States does. The United States has the highest legal drinking age of any country in the entire world. The legal drinking age in the United States is twenty one with special exceptions in nineteen of the fifty states. The legal drinking and purchasing age in Switzerland depends on the type of alcohol. Though this practice is not that unusual there are few countries that do this. In Switzerland the legal drinking and purchasing age for beer is fourteen for most of the country but is sixteen in certain cantons. The legal drinking and purchasing age for spirits is eighteen. These two countries have very drastic differences in their certain laws for legal drinking. The differences between the background histories of the drinking laws are different for each country and each country has different views on the drinking laws. The United States has taken several different actions with the legal drinking age. On January 16, 1920, the 18th amendment was put into effect.Legal Drinking Law At what age should a person be allowed to legally purchase or consume alcohol? This is one the most heated and debated topics in the United States. Other countries do not seem to have quite the debate that the United States does. The United States has the highest legal drinking age...