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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe not a minority or niche opinion, but the 21 drinking age has outlived its usefulness and needs to be abolished in America. Old enough to vote, pay taxes or join the service= old enough to drink. States should be free to lower the legal age to 18 or maybe 19 to keep alcohol more out of reach from high school kids.

My college president was a member of "Choose Responsibility", a coalition of college presidents who banded together around 2008 and commendably acknowledged the fact that prohibition doesn't work, this stopping young adults from purchasing booze or coming into bars after certain hours= dangerous underground campus drinking culture. The group proposed a conditional drivers licenses for new drivers under 21 who completed extra alcohol education. Pass the class and you can buy beer or wine but not liquor. But if you get an alcohol-related driving offense then your alcohol and driving privileges get suspended til you're 21. I get why the Feds raised the age in the 80s, but now that road deaths are down and society now treats DWI seriously it's time we treated 18-20 year olds as real adults. A few schools (AU I believe) have gone bone dry and even 21+ students are barred from having alcohol at parties or in their dorm rooms. College frats and sororities now serve as the de facto campus speakeasies; I can't help but wonder how much less antisocial behavior (especially sexual assault) there'd be on campuses if we took some of the novelty/forbidden fruit aspect out and encouraged moderation instead. College kids will drink eventually...why kid ourselves that prohibition works?[/quote]

So college kids aren't mature enough to drink, so we. LOWER the drinking age  :roll: [/quote]

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