Lowering the Drinking Age from 21 to 18

Bert — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:04:00 GMT

What a major announcement! Of all the people to support lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 I would never have thought that the college presidents from the big universities (Duke, Dartmouth, Ohio State, Syracuse, Tufts, Colgate, etc) would be the leaders of it. But, it is smart since it will relieve some of the university liability of constantly trying to stop underage drinking...which is probably impossible. My gut feel says it will never pass but it will be fun to watch them try.

It just seems right that if you are old enough to defend your country in war that you should be old enough to legally drink, right? The only problem is working through the social impacts of the change.

But, on the bright side, you could give Papa Bert Sneaky Drinking gifts as high school graduation presents in addition to college graduation presents ;)

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/08/18/college.drinking.age.ap/

Cheers!
Bert

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Lowering the Drinking Age from 21 to 18