At 16 you’re allowed to drive a 2500lbs hunk of metal and death at 60mph

Would you want people learning to do this at the same life stage they start to get drunk tho

It is a legitimate discussion with weed - studies have shown it effects brain development in teens - for the purposes of someone making an informed choice for themselves (policy-wise is another thing because teens will do harmful shit anyway). But in any case last I checked marijuana use is illegal at any age in all but a handful of European countries so probably a bad comparison to make, one of the few places North America is well ahead of Europe on the whole. With drinking I used to think as you do, that a much younger legal buying age was more enlightened, but then I lived for a time in the UK and the really sad and disgusting condition of the English youth has convinced me it should probably be outlawed alltogether, or at least there should be special locked pens for doing it. That's to say nothing about the many years young alcoholism took off my own life, I probably could've been helped a lot by another 5 years of illegality