Pennsylvania has always been a 21 state. At least as long as I remember. I was born in 1958 and never knew anything but 21 as the drinking age. West Virginia and Ohio we 18 states but has 3.2% beer for under 21.
The legal age to consume alcohol has been 21 since the repeal of Prohibition in 1933.
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When the 21 year old restriction was put on the drinking age, no one was excluded. There is no grandfathering when it comes to the drinking age.
There is no need for the drinking age to be raised to 21 because at age 21 is when most peoples brains are done developing. Also age 21 has been the drinking age since 1984 so they wouldn't change it 26 years later.
Prior to 1972 the minimum drinking age was 21 in Michigan. Michigan lowered the minimum drinking age from 21 to 18 in 1972, raised it from 18 to 19 in 1978, and raised it from 19 to 21 in 1978.
The legal drinking age in British Columbia is 19.
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1973 - this isn't right. I only know NSW & Qld, but in my lifetime there wasn't an Australia wide drinking age. I was born in 1952 and legally drinking in 1970 in NSW, aged 18. Qld was 21 at that time. My father was born 1921 and was also legally drinking at age 18 in NSW.
After the end of prohibition the minimum drinking age in New York was 18. New York State raised its minimum drinking age from 18 to 19 years in 1982 and raised it from 19 to 21 years on December 1, 1985.
September 10 1989
The minimum purchase and drinking age is a state law. Each individual U.S. state establishes by law the minimum age at which an individual may purchase alcoholic beverages. The U.S. Government passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act on July 17, 1984. This did not change the drinking age. However, it forced the individual states to establish the minimum drinking age as 21 or lose 10% of their federal highway funding. The minimum drinking age became 21 in all 50 U.S. states by 1986.