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?
Sentinel.com - January 07, 2009
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - 6 hours ago
By Robert Nolin | South Florida Sun-Sentinel But if you're not yet of drinking age, better stick to the soda pop. From 12 to 16 state beverage agents will ...
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Crain's New York Business - January 05, 2009
... supports lowering the drinking age to 18 from 21 in an effort to curb binge drinking on and off campus. In a survey published last year by the American ...
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NJ.com - January 01, 2009
The Times of Trenton - NJ.com, NJ - 6 hours ago
The drinking age now set at 21 appears to have been randomly chosen at the conclusion of Prohibition, with no clear guidelines as to why. ...
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CNN - December 31, 2008
Mental Floss: Why is the drinking age 21? Several factors make the chardonnay, pinot noir, and pinot meunier grapes grown in the Champagne region ...
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The News Journal - December 30, 2008
The raising of the legal drinking age to 21 in 1984 and increasing scrutiny of alcohol consumption on campus have had some unintended side effects, he said. ...
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Medical News Today (press release) - December 28, 2008
Urges Congress and the states to maintain and enforce the current drinking age of 21 across all states and resist any efforts to lower the minimum drinking ...
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Huffington Post - December 21, 2008
Later, I started hitchhiking from Philly to New York (where the drinking age was 18) with friends to see jazz greats like Thelonius Monk. ...
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Charleston Gazette - December 18, 2008
This includes the 11 percent decrease in alcohol-related traffic deaths among 18- to 20-year-olds after the drinking age was raised to 21 in 1984. ...
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MyNC.com - December 18, 2008
"It's very clear the 21-year-old drinking age will not be enforced at those campuses," said Laura Dean-Mooney, national president of MADD. ...
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Business Gazette - December 18, 2008
Many American youth are lured south of the border by cheap drinks and Mexico's drinking age of 18. The logic is simple: If you tell a teenager not to do ...
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Hartford Courant - December 16, 2008
The irate group has criticized the Amethyst Initiative for attempting to lower the American drinking age to 18. 2. It is also crazy for doing so. ...
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Earthtimes (press release) - December 12, 2008
This is the case if you are younger than the minimum legal drinking age, pregnant, driving or operating machinery, or simply cannot control your drinking. ...
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Mansfield News Journal - December 12, 2008
Recent research underscores the continuing need for an emphasis on preventing crashes caused by impaired driving, particularly among America's youth: In ...
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Lower Hudson Journal news - December 11, 2008
Keeping the drinking age at 21 is one way to protect them and help them achieve their best. The writers are executive board members, Eastchester Communities ...
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Los Angeles Times - December 09, 2008
Though not of drinking age in America (she'll turn 21 next spring), Adele assures that she's more likely to hang at home vacuuming than go to a pub. ...
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Lower Hudson Journal news - December 07, 2008
... country called for lowering the drinking age (in most places from age 21 to 18 or 19) as a way to address "hidden'' campus drinking and binge drinking. ...
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Indianapolis Star - December 04, 2008
John McCardell, the former president of Middlebury College, thinks the answer is to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18. Then college students could be ...
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Wall Street Journal - December 04, 2008
Legislators in both countries are weighing whether to raise their minimum legal drinking age to 18 from 16. The survey showed that while young people in ...
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Washington Times - December 02, 2008
... including prominent schools such as Duke and Ohio State, prompted a national debate by calling on lawmakers to rethink the national drinking age of 21. ...
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News - December 02, 2008
Cumberland Times-News, MD - 7 hours ago
While presidents of more than 100 colleges called on lawmakers last summer to rethink the national drinking age of 21, Gibralter is ratcheting up his ...
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