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Can you be arrested for underage drinking in this case?

Can you you be arrested for underage drinking (see post)?

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Luna Tick

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If you're 19 or 20 and get drunk in Mexico, where it's legal to drink at those ages, and return to the United States still drunk, can you be arrested for underage drinking?
 
spud_meister said:
No, it's not a crime to be drunk and under-age in America.
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If you are driving it is, pretty much every state has a zero tolerance law in effect. Unfortunately mouthwash tends to do that to drivers though and I've heard of under 21 drivers being affected by that for mouthwash, though they have from what I know got out of it.
 
Luna Tick said:
If you're 19 or 20 and get drunk in Mexico, where it's legal to drink at those ages, and return to the United States still drunk, can you be arrested for underage drinking?
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When I was in college, we would spend weekends in Quebec, where the drinking age is 18. We would return on Sunday, some of us still drunk, but not the driver, and the border people gave us no problem at all... but it could depend on the laws of your specific state... if it makes being inebriated under the age of 21 illegal, they you could have a problem... otherwise, you should be ok...
 
You can be charged with drunk in public and drunk driving, no matter where you did the drinking.

If you are 21 or older don't do with someone under age because you could get charged with contributing.
 
Councilman said:
You can be charged with drunk in public and drunk driving, no matter where you did the drinking.

If you are 21 or older don't do with someone under age because you could get charged with contributing.
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Not if you are a passenger in a car of a sober driver...
 
It isn't illegal to be drunk. It's illegal to possess alcohol. As long as you're not driving, you can drink anywhere it's legal to drink without worrying about the law when you get home.

Same thing with minors drinking under their guardians' supervision.
 
spud_meister said:
But that's for being drunk in public, not for being drunk and underage, that law still applies to people over age.
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Aren't Koala bears constantly drunk?

Something about the eucalyptus leaves fermenting in their stomach?

Or is that just a rumor?
 
It may depend on where you are, but I know that here it wouldn't be a crime assuming you didn't drive and weren't a public nuisance.

In Minnesota you could drink underage so long as a legal guardian was supervising. There may be some consumption limit, but I'm not sure what it is.
 
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