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Do you remember your first taste of alcohol? How old were you? Twenty-one? All 50 states currently demand that their citizens reach age 21 before they can legally drink. But there's a growing movement that says mandatory minimum laws may do more harm than good. When determining the right date when a young person can take one of their final steps towards personal responsibility and freedom, what's the right answer?
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The Law Saves Lives
Drinking attitudes
An occasional drink isn't the same as binging or drunk driving, so how about raising the driving age? A higher drinking age cuts down on abuse, so why not raise it to 40 or 50? Or join the army or vote at 21?
Going from a total ban and then at 12:01 on a birthday one can drink as much as they want sets kids up to overindulge because birthdays are celebrated. Drinking attitudes matter more than one's age.
Gradually introduce it with a limit of 1 wine glass with a PARENT and MEAL at 17 as in Europe, 19 for low alcohol beverages and 21 to purchase. Close loopholes allowing FAKE IDs good enough to fool some police.
I have stories of kids sneaking into the nightclub I worked at when the drinking age went from 18 to 21. I chose to cut down on my drinking 20 years ago to only once a week after seeing so many people drink too much.
How about an ad of Jenna Bush's fake ID saying - Many of our children flaunt the drinking laws. - (I worked with the policeman that confiscated it.)
- dotkhan
August 23, 2008 9:52PM
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