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Why the drinking age should be lowered: An opinion based upon researc ... The legal drinking age should be lowered to about 18 or 19 and young adults allowed to drink in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs and official school and university functions. In these situations responsible drinking could...
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Artist: Suzanne LeGault;; (or reasons why drinking age should be lowered) ... As UVM and other universities work to address student alcohol abuse, one of the greatest hindrances they face is the fact that the legal drinking age is set at twenty-one, an age most college students won't reach until their junior or senior years.
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Legal drinking age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The legal drinking age refers to the earliest age in a country that a person is legally allowed to buy alcoholic beverages, which may be different to the age at which they may be permitted to drink ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age
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60 Minutes on CBS News: The Debate On Lowering The Drinking Age - 60 Minutes: Some Say Age Should Be Lowered To 18, But MADD And Others Strongly Disagree ... But the college presidents got what they wanted: a national debate about the drinking age. When the age was raised to 21 in the mid-1980s, the goal was to reduce...
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www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/19/60minutes/main481357...
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In light of the answers the Review reached in response to those questions, we would like to postulate another: why should the drinking age be 21? Sadly, ... Therefore, some sort of legal drinking age makes sense. This leads to a second enigma: when does society consider a person responsible for their actions?
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In 1984 Congress passed and the president signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. The Act, which raised the drinking age to 21 under threat of highway fund withholding, sought to address the problem of drunken driving fatalities.
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www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/16/mccardell.lower.drinkin...
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The national policy that set a minimum legal drinking age of 21 is being questioned by a group of 135 college and university presidents through an effort called the Amethyst Initiative. ... New Zealand recently lowered the drinking age based on many of the same arguments advanced by the Amethyst Initiative. The result was...
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www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/29/nelson.retain.drinking.age/in...
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Studies show that moderate drinking can be good for you. But we legally proscribe alcohol until the age of 21 (why not 30 or 45?). Christine and her classmates can drive cars, fly planes, marry, vote, pay taxes, take out loans and risk their lives as members of the U.S. armed forces.
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www.mindfully.org/Industry/ACSH-Lower-Drinking-Age.htm
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