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I hear that being under the influence of alcohol while underage is illegal since you are "in possession" of alcohol: Your body is a container, and it contains a

• jroll 13y ago
  Yes, I've been convicted of this. :/ If I remember correctly, the legal limit is 0.02 for underage people, to account for mouthwash etc.
• kcg 13y ago
  That was, and still is, the case where I went to school in New Hampshire. The decision to treat the body as a container is made at the state level, I believe (as the drinking age is determined by the individual states, although effectively federally-mandated by the threat of withholding significant federal funding).