Legalizing Alcohol At 18. You can be stopped, fined or arrested by police if you’re under 18 and drinking alcohol in public. The per capita consumption of alcohol in france, spain and portugal is higher than in the u.s.

Legalizing alcohol for people under 21 year old in the us introduction the legal drinking age is one the issues that has for the longest time drawn mixed reactions across quite a number of social, political and academic. Drunk driving, alcohol poisoning, and violent and/or destructive behavior. It did not, however, make drinking alcohol illegal.