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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Lowering the Drinking Age Will Not Stop Binge Drinking.
- From GHSA
By Governors Highway Safety Association - The States' Voice on Highway Safety
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Misleading Statistics
Under-21 students might drink the same amount of alcohol in a night would the drinking age be lowered, but they would drink this amount over a longer period of time. The Age 21 law forces students to "pre-game" by drinking to get drunk, but doing so for an hour or so BEFORE going out for the night. Normal adult social lives include the drinking with the socializing, but this is not usually an option for someone under 21.
- Daniel Demetri August 23, 2008 5:39PM
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Just a small opinion
Data is flawed. I am a Former State Trooper, worked the night shift my career and arrested alot of DUI suspects, sometime the same person multiple times. A DUI is the following:
1. Bad luck (the ratio of police to drunks on the road is flawed)
2. Good luck (if you have the skills to detect "truly" drink drivers)
3. Skilled (if you can stumble into mud and make it a gold mine)
Kids will drink and DO DRUGS (yes do drugs), the laws DON'T make a difference. There are establishments that sell to minors (and eventually get caught, but another replaces it)
SOLUTION: www.18or21.com
- FormerTrooper September 15, 2008 12:38AM
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