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In many parts of America, you are not allowed to drink alcohol{{U}} (4) {{/U}}. That is, you may not sit in a park or{{U}} (5) {{/U}}drinking beer, and you cannot even take a nice bottle of wine{{U}} (6) {{/U}}. In some public places, people can be seen taking drinks from cans{{U}} (7) {{/U}}. These are not cans of Coca-Cola. {{U}}(8) {{/U}}you are not allowed to drink alcohol while driving, or even{{U}} (9) {{/U}}container in the car. Some bars{{U}} (10) {{/U}}only for beer and wine. Others are also allowed to sell spirits and thus, as Americans say, "{{U}} (11) {{/U}}".
Many bars have a period{{U}} (12) {{/U}}, often longer than an hour, when they sell drinks with prices{{U}} (13) {{/U}}. This is usually around 5p.m. and may be only{{U}} (14) {{/U}}of the week.
Legal drinking age varies from state to state but is generally{{U}} (15) {{/U}}. Some states permit{{U}} (16) {{/U}}at 18 but spirits only at 21. Others permit the consumption only of "three-two" beer from 18 to 21. {{U}}(17) {{/U}}, in some parts of the USA, young people{{U}} (18) {{/U}}, marry, raise children, keep full-time jobs, be tried in courts as adults, join the army and even buy guns but not{{U}} (19) {{/U}}. 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{{U}} (20) {{/U}}are not even allowed to sell alcohol.