The Drinking Age

You know what really grinds my gears? The Drinking Age.

Why? Here is a list of something that someone between the ages of 18 and 21 can do:
1. Buy tobacco
2. Qualify for Medical marijuana
3. Drive a Car
4. Vote
5. Die for their country
6. Pay Taxes
7. Keep a Job
8. Get Married
9. Have kids
10. Adopt
11. Become a Notary Public
12. Become a Real Estate Agent
13. Fly a plane
14. Become a clergy member (What, you dont believe this? I am a fucking reverend!)
15. Get a credit card
16. Get a loan
17. Open a business
18. Bar tend
19. Teach High School students
20. Work at a Suicide Hot Line
21. Be tried as an adult
22. Make a Will
23. Change your name
24. Men are required to register with the Selective Service
25. Become a bureaucrat.
26. Become an RA or TA in a Univeristy
27. Serve Jury Duty
28. Sign a Lease
29. Sign any legally binding contract
30. Drive a truck
31. Drink in Almost any other country in the world
32. Have sex
33. Buy Porn
34. Hire a Prostitute in NV.
35. Be tried as an adult
36. Be subject to laws of statutory rape
37. Gamble
38. Purchase Lottery Tix
39. Move out
40. Go to Dance Clubs
41. Go to strip clubs
42. Get a Drivers License with out having to get a permit
43. Get any piercing
44. Ger any tattoo
45. Get a checking account
46. Buy stock in your name
47. Have a savings account in your name
48. Get control of a UGMA/UTMA account
49. Be considered the guardian for any children on a flight with you
50. Basically everything besides drinking and joining AARP.

So I can do ALL of that but not have a nice Shiraz with dinner? What the Fuck America?

So why is the drinking age still 21? I have a conspiricy involving tobacco companies trying to get people hooked, but people think I am crazy. What do you think?