While I can get raw milk without much trouble here, the common belief is that you risk your health if you drink it (without cooking it before). To an extent that I can not google "raw milk" and get reasonable results (there was a huge affair about two years ago where people died after eating cheese sold by a big supermarket. The supermarket and the media coverage sold the whole thing as "raw milk cheese scandal" even though the deadly cheese was NO raw milk cheese but pasteurized... I don't even want to say any more about that...).

Drinking raw milk seems to be more common among health conscious people in the US it seems to me? What are the benefits (compared to drinking fresh pasteurized milk)?

Nowadays it's even getting difficult to buy fresh milk in supermarkets, because it gets displaced by ESL milk silently.