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?
When the drinking age was lowered in the early 1970s, the only thing that changed was that teen drinking as well as drunk driving traffic crashes rose. How many times must we relearn the harsh lesson that you can’t bring a loved one back after a tragic alcohol-related death?
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