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Drinking Age.
In July, a group of college presidents announced that they wanted to start a national conversation on the
drinking age. Their "Amethyst Initiative" suggests that we lower it to 18.
The college presidents said they wanted a national debate on the 21-year-old
drinking age. They got it.
A recent letter mailed to all college presidents suggests that one solution to this problem is to lower the
drinking age to 18.
Currently, the country's
drinking age varies depending on the type of alcohol involved and the place of sale.
The argument goes like this: Our current
drinking age forces young people to drink in private, so binge drinking of serious alcohol is on the rise and can be deadly.
There are a number of proposals which could address this - for example, raising the
drinking age to 21, policing pubs and bars more closely and dealing more firmly with drunk and disorderly behaviour.
Now there is talk of lowering the legal
drinking age to 16 in pubs, in order to curb teenage drinking on the streets.
A LEADING medical expert says the legal
drinking age should be lowered to 16 to tackle problems caused by binge drinking.
A learned expert now wants the legal
drinking age lowered to 16.
A TOP medical officer has called for the
drinking age to be lowered to 16 so teenagers could drink in pubs instead of in parks and on street corners.
The way former Middlebury College President John McCardell sees it, maintaining this country's legal
drinking age at 21 leaves parents, and college presidents, with a similar dilemma and two unacceptable choices.