Alcohol and sex.

[libdem4life]

17. There is a good reason why alcohol consumption is ILLEGAL until one is 21 years old.

And sale or distribution of alcohol to a minor is a serious legal offence.

In most of these truly tortured and terrible examples on this board, underage drinking/doping begins the voluntary and slippery slope. No. Not an excuse...a Fact. Only an idiot consents to be blitzed and out of control...by definition...then holds an equally blitzed person to act unblitzed. The police likely could have and should have arrested the lot of them.

Not that 21 is any magic age, but at that age, I was a college graduate (in Southern California) and much wiser and more mature than in Jr. high and high school. If all of these posted accounts removed the element of illegal alcohol/drugs/whatever, the stories/results would change.

My parents would have "killed" me if I had have drunk in high school. Same with my selected peer group. Same with my son. Did I have encounters...in the trendy LA South Bay beaches out "clubbing"... yep ... it only took a couple of close calls to remember why getting blitzed with strangers and in public wasn't a good idea.