Actually... A fake Govenment ID is a Federal Crime (Felony)since it is a Controlled Government Document. A DL is not because it is a State issued card and is a privilage not a right.
What I don’t understand is... Everywhere else to include Europe the children are weened on alcohol and are given wine at the dinner table. They do not have a major issue like we do. It is the mystic that makes it so when they become of age, they are breaking out of the hardened shell and begin to make up for 20 years of being told no.-— Just my thought and feelings on it.
Of course, the temperance movement was a reaction to the widespread alcoholism that pervaded the US in the 1800s.
I remember reading a work on social history that pointed out that US consumption of hard liquor in the 1840s was more than 17 gallons per capita - in an age when hard liquor was usually 120-150 proof than 80-100 proof.
That's about five or six shots of Jack Daniels every day.
The alcohol consumption by teenagers in the 1800s US is staggering by today's standards - no one thought twice about a 14 year old ranchhand drinking a fifth of whiskey on a weeknight as long as he crawled into work the next day.
The pendulum has now swung entirely the other way.