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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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Permits prevent drinking but laws don't?
This arguement is just silly. They're arguing that a revokable permit will keep people from drinking if they misbehave whereas a law permitting all below 21 to drink doesn't stop them!
And they're arguing to adopt something that hasn't been tried because there's no evidence against it!
This is a group with no reality contact - just a need to sell booze! And they've conned college presidents.
Why not propose things that DO work? Why not enforce laws against drinking instead of revoking them? Why not spend all that education money that's supposed to be effective on educating not to drink instead of educating to drink? Or educating how to drink when 21?
If all those European countries have such success, then how about some specific suggestions based on those successes? With all those countries, surely there would be a course such as suggested. Either these folks havent bothered to research their subject or it doesn't work - surely someone would have tried an education course in one of those countries?
- larrylangdon
September 4, 2008 9:10AM
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