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The purchase and drinking age for non-hard liquor at liquor stores and markets shall be lowered to 18 in the united states. The difference between said liquor is non-hard and hard liquor.

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If a person 18 years of age is working for an establishment with a beer license, they may handle, stock, sell, serve, and dispense beer in that establishment. If a person is under 18 and employed, they can do all of the above if supervised by someone of 18+ years.

https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/enforcement/liquor-frequently-asked-questions

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“...the 21 minimum drinking age law has saved about 900 lives per year as estimated by the National Traffic Highway Administration (NHTSA). In short, there are more than 25,000 people alive today because of the 21 minimum drinking age law in every state.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/thrillist/is-it-time-to-lower-the-d_b_9633254.html

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/thrillist/is-it-time-to-lower-the-d_b_9633254.html

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"motor vehicle accidents (the leading cause of death and injury in this age group), homicides, suicides, falls, and other accidents are all strongly associated with alcohol consumption (Bonnie and O'Connell, 2004).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182479/

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Although drinking by persons under the age of 21 is illegal, people aged 12 to 20years drink 11% of all alcohol consumed in the United States. More than 90% of this alcohol is consumed in the form of binge drinks. On average, underage drinkers consume more drinks per drinking occasion than adult drinkers.

Excessive drinking is responsible for more than 4,300 deaths among underage youth each year, and cost the U.S. $24 billion in economic costs in 2010.2,3

https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/underage-drinking.htm

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182479/

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Who are we to simply stand idly by while the youth of america drink their lives away.

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Lowering the drinking age would allow for parents to help their kids through the big mistakes before they head off into the real world, allowing them to more prepared for those challenges and pressures in college and beyond.

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Non-hard liquor is anything that is not distilled in the process of making it. I.e. beer and wine

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An open community to alcohol decreases the amount of desire people have to drink excessively.

https://www.bu.edu/today/2010/drinking-18-vs-21/

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Gives really good statistics about deaths and overall effects of drinking.
Example Con: "New Zealand recently switched from age 20 to 18. As soon as they made that change, not only did they have more traffic fatalities among 18- and 19-year-olds, but among 15- and 16-year-olds."
https://www.bu.edu/today/2010/drinking-18-vs-21/

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https://www.madd.org/

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The laws may be encouraging our youth to pursue drinking more then helping. If it was lower, it may lessen the sense of wrongness and force parents to teach their kids about responsibility earlier on in life  when they are easier to teach.

-Germany has less problems with drunk driving and alcohol abuse with more relaxed laws, versus more problems in the US despite much stricter laws.

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While allowing persons 18 years of age to drink non-hard liquor may actually be beneficial, allowing the purchase of said liquor can only serve t

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https://drinkingage.procon.org/

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There’s a whole literature showing that whatever policy is in place that makes alcohol more accessible, the more problems you have. One of the things we know is that parents who allow their kids to drink at home actually stimulate the kids to drink more overall than parents who don’t encourage their kids to drink at home. Those kids drink higher amounts and more frequently. They experience more negative alcohol-related consequences. Rather than the kids getting the message that there’s a way to drink responsibly, they take away the message that Mom and Dad don’t care if I drink, so when they’re out in social setting, they’re more inclined to drink more. Again, I don’t see any evidence that we get more extreme drinking because of the Age 21 law. Show me data, not anecdotes. We can find anecdotes for both sides of the argument.

-Comments such as these that help both pro and con.-
https://www.bu.edu/today/2010/drinking-18-vs-21/