I think the interpretation of teens drinking in this movie also depends on what generation you are from
I'm a gen-xer, and my teen years were in the 80's most of my friends drank or smoked pot. What I saw in the movie is pretty much what we called "every weekend." The kids in the 70's called it the same thing, even though they were much wilder than we were. We were also the last generation to really get away with partying before the nannies clamped down in the late 80's and early 90's
I don't really see a problem with kids doing this in their teens. I think we need to pull back on the over-nannying of teen drinking in the US. I don't believe we ought to be handing kids six packs on their way to school, but I think we really over react and over protect and it shows - millennials are total pussies because of it. Now kids get caught drinking and they want to throw them in counseling, diversion programs, or skrew with them academically.
The kids of the late 50's to the early 90's also handled drinking alot better than they are given credit for. Granted it wasn't always pretty - some of those keggers turned into a cross between a Dothraki wedding party, and the Altamont Concert, but we took our lumps and we lived through it. It was a part of growing up that most of America did and parents looked at as just one more inevitable drama you go through while raising a teenager.
I just don't buy that this is a problem. My guess would be that this would actually be less of a problem (I'm talking alcohol only, not drugs. You millennials are hopeless when it comes to drugs) due to all the nannying and hovering that goes on by dogooders.
I will now sit back and take that flaming that I will gladly endure
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