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UPI reports: Seven U.S. states are contemplating changing their laws to allow residents younger than 21 years to drink alcohol, officials said.
ST. PAUL (AP) - Some state lawmakers have introduced bills that would lower the drinking age in Minnesota from 21 to 18....
It's a milestone for many Minnesotans. Turn 21, and be of age to drink. But three lawmakers say if some under 21 drink anyway, why not make it legal?
More than two decades after the country established a uniform drinking age of 21, a nascent movement is afoot to allow 18- to 20-year-olds to legally buy alcohol under some circumstances.
During the Democratic debate at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire last month, the candidates were asked to answer a viewer's question about whether they would support lowering the national drinking age from 21 to 18 years old.
Bartenders may have a knack for telling jokes, but there may be a few things they're keeping mum about.
The age at highest risk for an alcohol-related auto fatality is 21, followed by 22 and 23, an indication that delaying first exposure to alcohol until young adults are away from home may not be the best way to introduce them to drink.
McCardell, 57, president emeritus of Middlebury College in Vermont and professor of history there, says alcohol is and always will be a reality in the lives of 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds.
Although all 50 states ban drinking by persons under 21, technically there is no national drinking age.
It's been 20 years that America has had a minimum federal drinking age. The policy began to gain momentum in the early 1980s, when the increasingly influential Mothers Against Drunk Driving added the federal minimum drinking age to its legislative agenda.
The United States currently has the worlds highest drinking age, but this could all change thanks to new legislation in Thailand. This leads to the question, why do we have a drinking age? Should we get rid of it? I think so.
Both political parties have a history of using kids as tools to control the actions of parents, the neo-dries want an alcohol free America. The best way to combat "under age drinking" is to lower the legal drinking age. Stop turning 18 to 21 year olds into criminals.