Changing drinking age

[auxdarastrix]

 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,405766,00.html

College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus

Of course, MADD is quite

Comments

[dekarch]

I saw anyone who can be trusted with hand grenades should be trusted with a beer.

18 years of age is the requirement for registration for Selective Service. Hence it should be the age of full majority--beer, renting cars, cigarettes, voting, jury duty, etc, etc, etc.

A 17 year old who has completed initial entry training in the Armed Forces should also be considered a legal adult.

[auxdarastrix]

Traditionally, political rights have been closely linked to military service. I wouldn't mind a drinking age of 18, but democracies are, after all, all about compromise.

Actually I wouldn't even mind a drinking age for non-distilled beverages of 16 and a purchase age of 18.

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[sappersmom]

Effects of drinking are worse the younger you are. What about making drinking a privilege like driving and gun ownership--you have to take classes and pass tests about "responsible drinking," effects of alcohol, etc., get a license, and if irresponsibility is shown, the license is revoked?

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[sappersmom]

Effects of drinking are worse the younger you are. What about making drinking a privilege like driving and what I think should happen with gun ownership--you have to take classes and pass tests about "responsible drinking," effects of alcohol, etc., get a license, and if irresponsibility is shown, the license is revoked?