Drinking Age - Govt's Latest News Release
I know there have been threads on this topic and I don't mean to prolong it - but this press release flabbergasted me.
The Associate Minister of Health has said the drinking age will not be put back up to 20.
Damien O'Connor made the comments at an addictions conference in Wellington this morning, pre-empting a parliamentary review of the drinking age.
He says the political reality is that New Zealand is stuck with the drinking age at 18. (UM WHY??!!)
Mr O'Connor says problems around young people drinking relate more to binge drinking. (Alcoholics are binge drinkers too).
Binge drinking my arse - that equals to every weekend for many!!
My view is alcoholics no matter what age will always find alcohol. Unless they realise they have a problem and/or find Alcoholics Anonymous, little can be done for them. Alcoholism is the only disease that tells you you don't have a problem!! The illusion is astonishing!! lol. So put this group to the side in this instance.
However, these days you are now getting these 18 year olds able to access alcohol more readily with lots of lovely varieties too, yes they are drinking more (hell how can they afford it??!!) and gee whiz they are getting into trouble! I am so surprised NOT. They don't have the maturity to handle it etc -
From what I have observed I reckon it is the young women that are suffering most - being taken advantage of - I've watched these sleazeball men hone in on really drunk young women - yuk (Mind you it is the only way they would get laid - you'd never fk it sober). The women have no idea how drunk and ridiculous they look or are aware of their behaviour - all over guys as well and very little on dress wise (I never thought I'd hear myself say that lol) and man you wish they would cover up some of the hefty flesh - cos the ones I have seen in Courtenay Place lately have not been slender beings! and everything is hanging out everywhere. (And I observed this at the start of the evening!!)
An incident 2 weeks ago - a guy was very drunk - fell into the sea around the Overseas Terminal - dead! I had seen the "Missing" notices in the supermarket! (So men suffer to!!)
I certainly don't have all the answers but lowering the drinking age was a big mistake.
Actions speak louder than words or good intentions
He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. - Paul Keating
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Originally Posted by DingDong
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