Re:Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018)
by ajmurmann on Thursday March 21, 2019 @10:20AM
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I really like how Germany solved the drinking age problem: you can drink beer and wine at 16 and hard liquor at 18. This gives you a safety net to experiment with alcohol. You won't drink yourself into a coma with beer and you aren't allowed to drive till you are 18.
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Re:Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018)
by Matthias247 on Thursday March 21, 2019 @11:24PM
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You can certainly drink yourself into coma with beer. Teens drinking 6-10 beers is not an uncommon thing at parties at that age.
That said practically the 16/18 distinction also isn't that important. If you are 16, you typically hang out also with some people that are >= 18, and which will then buy the other things. People might not necessarily start drinking with hard liquor, but the time to it is typically not 2 years.
Source: I'm german, and had been 16 and 18 a long time ago.
Re:Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018)
by ciceryadam on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:51PM
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"You won't drink yourself into a coma with beer" - it only takes more time. 1st google result on oktoberfest passed out: https://coed.com/2015/09/16/oktoberfest-best-drunk-photos-oc...