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It is difficult to give a description of
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because they vary from state to state and city to city.
Some towns allow the sale of very weak,
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, known as "three-two" beer. Some places
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of any alcohol on Sundays, not only in bars but also in shops. You may find a locked bar over the alcohol shelves.
In many parts of America, you are not allowed to drink alcohol
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. That is, you may not sit in a park or
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drinking beer, and you cannot even take a nice bottle of wine
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. In some public places, people can be seen taking drinks from cans
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. These are not cans of Coca-Cola.
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you are not allowed to drink alcohol while driving, or even
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container in the car. Some bars
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only for beer and wine. Others are also allowed to sell spirits and thus, as Americans say, "
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".
Many bars have a period
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, often longer than an hour, when they sell drinks with prices
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. This is usually around 5p.m. and may be only
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of the week.
Legal drinking age varies from state to state but is generally
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. Some states permit
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at 18 but spirits only at 21. Others permit the consumption only of "three-two" beer from 18 to 21.
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, in some parts of the USA, young people
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, marry, raise children, keep full-time jobs, be tried in courts as adults, join the army and even buy guns but not
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. In some places 18 to 21 year olds are allowed into bars but not allowed to drink.
Another even more interesting aspect of American drinking-age laws is that in some places people
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are not even allowed to sell alcohol.