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Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, and South Dakota: The legal purchase age is 18 for 3.2% ABV beer, and 21 for beer stronger than 3.2% ABV, wine, and liquor. Minimum legal purchase age as of 1983 (one year before the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed):
The Act requires all states to either set their minimum age to purchase alcoholic beverages and the minimum age to possess alcoholic beverages in public to no lower than 21 years of age or lose 10% (Changed to 8% in 2012) of their allocated federal highway funding if the minimum age for the aforementioned is lower than 21 years of age.
The legal drinking age varies from country to country. [1] In the United States, the legal drinking age is currently 21. [2] To curb excessive alcohol consumption by younger people, instead of raising the drinking age, other countries have raised the prices of alcohol beverages and encouraged the general public to drink less. Setting a legal ...
In the United States, the national legal drinking age is 21 years old and has been so since 1984. However, ... For Becky, who lives with her family in Ohio, allowing her teens to have the ...
The hoax site, Sunday Times Daily recently reported that the legal drinking age in the United States would change to 25 and this new law would take effect on August 2, 2014. As you can imagine ...
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Although the minimum legal age to purchase alcohol is 21 in all U.S. states and most territories [1] (see National Minimum Drinking Age Act), the legal details for consumption vary greatly. Although some states completely ban alcohol usage for people under 18, the majority have exceptions that permit consumption. [2]
Alcohol legalized in 1929 – Minimum legal drinking age set at 20. Minimum legal drinking age lowered to 18 in 1972. [46] Saskatchewan: Alcohol legalized in 1925 – Minimum legal drinking age set at 21. Minimum legal drinking age lowered to 18 in 1970. Minimum legal drinking age raised to 19 in 1976. [46] Yukon: