Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered from 21?

Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered from 21?

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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  • JSearles
    Your welcome

    Actually, CR had nothing to do with my reading of this peer-reviewed artile. It's what scientsits do to keep up on the literature. It is disingenuous to fault a study for using the only data available. This was a study on the effects of policy and policies don't change on a regular basis. The data suporting the MLDA-21 laws are overwhelming. Here is the bottom line: lower the MLDA and adverse outcomes increase; raise the MLDA and adverse outcomes decrease. Pretty simple, really!

    - JSearlesUS January 30, 2009 10:10AM

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