Lowering the Drinking Age to 18
There is a move afoot on some university campuses to lower the legal drinking age to 18 from 21.
We fully support the effort -- when we were in college the age to drink was 18 -- and having that legal limit sit at 21 now only indicates a failed intention and false effort to curb college drinking.
Students want to drink alcohol. They will drink even if they have to break the law.
Lowering the legal limit to 18 means universities can better enforce and police drinking on campus.
Instead of forcing the kids into underground and surreptitious drinking binges, universities can teach kids the safe way to maintain alcohol as part of college life.
We find it incredible teenagers can enlist in the military to die a hard death in the Middle East, but they are not "old enough" to enjoy a beer on their porch at home.
Let's accept the reality of teenage experimentation and lower the legal drinking age to 18 and help the kids learn the responsibility of managing their alcohol intake in the light of day and not underground in the sneakiness of night.
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Safe drinking required education. It makes sense to let universities teach what students should know instead of denying what's really happening on campus parties.
Yes, why not use the campus as a place for all learning? The artificial barrier to drinking on campus only encourages lawlessness instead of supporting it. Legalize it and control it.
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