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I grabbed this off a blog--This has been the talk of most the news shows today...Some of the most prestigious college Presidents are coming out in favor of lowering the drinking age- and again the resurfacing of the old argument of a country at war- and old enough to die for your country- you should be old enough to drink...
I know personally when the drinking age was 18 I saw that for many the intrique and excitement soon vanished once drinking was legal and it became no big deal...I did think it made booze more easily available for the High School parties as many of the Seniors were 18-19 years old- and they still had the parties to find all the underclass 16-17 year old chicks at...
I know personally when the drinking age was 18 I saw that for many the intrique and excitement soon vanished once drinking was legal and it became no big deal...I did think it made booze more easily available for the High School parties as many of the Seniors were 18-19 years old- and they still had the parties to find all the underclass 16-17 year old chicks at...
Current drinking age laws encourage "dangerous binge drinking." Discuss. (+)
by: Jay Stevens
Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 13:31:12 PM MDT
Remember all that hubbub around the state Democratic platform, when LiTW friend Denver Henderson wedged a plank in about an 18-year-old drinking age? The state's elders pretty much decided an 18-year-old drinking age is a bad idea, and you don't hear much conversation around the issue anymore, do you?
Turns out Henderson may have been onto something:
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.
I have to agree. As soon as kids are out from under the guidance and watchful eyes of their parents, it's party time. I saw it in classmates when I went to college - heck, I did some binge drinking myself. (I played rugby. 'Nuff said.) Binge drinking and general drunkenness doesn't seem to be as much a problem in Europe, where the drinking age is substantially lower - as young as 16 in some places. Heck, Finland, Hungary, and Greece, among others, don't even have a drinking age. Kids in Europe encounter booze earlier, and learn responsible drinking. It doesn't have the allure of being forbidden, like in the United States.