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Many states established the legal age of 21 for the purchasing or drinking of alcohol after Prohibition was repealed in 1933. The Federal Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed in 1984, which required states to establish a minimum age for a person to purchase and have public possession of alcohol. All states now set the age for such acts at 21. Several states do not have established grounds or procedures relating to minors drinking in their home or other private homes, especially if they have the permission of the adults present. Such a discrepancy is the reason why adults are often charged with violations such as "corruption of the morals of an underage person" instead of providing alcohol to minors.

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I believe the legal limit for drinking changed somewhere around the mid to late 1970s and early 80s.

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