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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Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered from 21?
This is a stupid argument!
You can kill yourself with Tabacco legally before 21 and you can be thrown into an uneeded war and be killed before you are 21. Either lower the age or change the system.
- bhall
June 17, 2009 1:07PM
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