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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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Minimum Drinking Age Laws have Proven Their Effectiveness
Shouldn't be a shock
that alcohol related arrests or accidents were on the rise when (for example) the drinking age changes were staggered chronologically. In DC the age was 21 while it was 18 in Baltimore for a time. Naturally, the 18-20 set were driving into Baltimore, getting drunk, and coming back to DC, turning Route 1 (the old route from College Park to Baltimore) into a carpile. Oversight like this, coupled with a total lack of responsibility-based education, definitely had something to do with it in my mind.
- Schmevbo August 25, 2008 9:35AM
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