[TKDietz]

"In Aruba the legal drinking age is an astounding 16 years---a high school junior can drink all he/she wants on Aruba."

Well now, that's actually the drinking age in several countries. I lived in Germany for several years and that was the drinking age there then, but it wasn't enforced. A lot of countries have a different take on drinking than we do. And we didn't always have a drinking age in this country. It used to be that parents were responsible for deciding whther their children could drink alcohol. The government didn't have anything to do with it. I don't think there is anything "astounding" about a legal drinking age of 16.

[Liz]

You're comparing apples with oranges----the central point is policies of the Netherlands......the drinking age is just another indictment of their liberalism.