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Originally posted by PinkHaired Mudokon CWR
18 in the United States.
You have to be 21 in order to drink.
They are changing the law that you have to wait until six months after your birthday to get your learners permit.
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In the US, the age of consent, drinking age, age for getting a learner's permit and driver's license, are all matters of state law. Although states sometimes follow each others' leads and they end up with similar standards, they can potentially be completely different from state to state. There is sort of a de facto national drinking age now because most if not all states have changed their drinking ages to 21 in response to federal pressure. However, not long ago it was not uncommon to have drinking ages of 18 and 21 on either side of a state border.
Although it may have changed by now, I have a faint memory of the age of consent in at least one state as being as low as 13. They are quite different from state to state.