cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
If my 25 years in high school teaching taught me anything it is that the 21 drinking age is a laugh. I've yet to hear of a lack of access to beer by students. What I'm wondering is if it would not make more sense to go back to the days of 3.2 beer. In the sixties you could by 3.2 beer on your 18th birthday.
You had to drink a ton of the stuff to get whacko, though hormones, inexperience with alcohol and party mentality made many of us act like we were drunk.
It created a situation where bars in college towns could cater to that clientel. It eliminated some felony offenses such as forging legal documents. Perhaps being able to purchse kept us away from hard liquor... at least I was pretty willing to stay legal... why risk arrest for 6% or hard stuff if you could legally drink 3.2?
You were motivated to get your draft card to prove you were 18...
I know that there is some research on the correlation of early drinking and alcoholism that would push against the idea of allowing any form of drinking at age 18, but it seems to me that this (age 21) is a law that most of America winks at now.
You had to drink a ton of the stuff to get whacko, though hormones, inexperience with alcohol and party mentality made many of us act like we were drunk.
It created a situation where bars in college towns could cater to that clientel. It eliminated some felony offenses such as forging legal documents. Perhaps being able to purchse kept us away from hard liquor... at least I was pretty willing to stay legal... why risk arrest for 6% or hard stuff if you could legally drink 3.2?
You were motivated to get your draft card to prove you were 18...
I know that there is some research on the correlation of early drinking and alcoholism that would push against the idea of allowing any form of drinking at age 18, but it seems to me that this (age 21) is a law that most of America winks at now.