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<blockquote data-quote="katya02" data-source="post: 187577" data-attributes="member: 2884"><p>I also grew up in Canada and the legal drinking age was 18 when I was in high school. Since then it's been raised to 19 to keep it out of the high schools as much as possible. </p><p></p><p>Personally I think a drinking age of 21 is ridiculous - if every other adult right and responsibility comes into play at 18. Either raise the adult age to 21 for everything, or lower the drinking age.</p><p></p><p>We recently spent two years in Canada and then returned to PA. The most noticeable thing for us wasn't youths drinking; it was the ubiquitous presence of pot. We lived in an upscale suburb of a city in southern Ontario and people smoked pot in the high schools (yes!), on the street, on the golf course, in shopping malls ... we were completely weirded out. While pot was around during my high school years in the '70's it was discreetly traded and smoked out in the field behind the high school. It wasn't generally socially acceptable. Now, at least in some parts of southern Ontario, it's more common than drinking coffee.</p><p></p><p>That was the beginning of the end for difficult child, who was 14 when we moved there and hadn't begun drinking or using; by the time we moved back he was an addict. Thanks, Canada. </p><p>(Although I know he's predisposed and it would have happened whenever he came in contact with it, the drugs didn't have to be so d*** ubiquitous and accepted, in my opinion. It didn't have to happen at 14. GRRR.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="katya02, post: 187577, member: 2884"] I also grew up in Canada and the legal drinking age was 18 when I was in high school. Since then it's been raised to 19 to keep it out of the high schools as much as possible. Personally I think a drinking age of 21 is ridiculous - if every other adult right and responsibility comes into play at 18. Either raise the adult age to 21 for everything, or lower the drinking age. We recently spent two years in Canada and then returned to PA. The most noticeable thing for us wasn't youths drinking; it was the ubiquitous presence of pot. We lived in an upscale suburb of a city in southern Ontario and people smoked pot in the high schools (yes!), on the street, on the golf course, in shopping malls ... we were completely weirded out. While pot was around during my high school years in the '70's it was discreetly traded and smoked out in the field behind the high school. It wasn't generally socially acceptable. Now, at least in some parts of southern Ontario, it's more common than drinking coffee. That was the beginning of the end for difficult child, who was 14 when we moved there and hadn't begun drinking or using; by the time we moved back he was an addict. Thanks, Canada. (Although I know he's predisposed and it would have happened whenever he came in contact with it, the drugs didn't have to be so d*** ubiquitous and accepted, in my opinion. It didn't have to happen at 14. GRRR.) [/QUOTE]
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