MOTION GRAPHICS PAUL HANEGRAAFF: 2015

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

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The drinking age of 21 was made so in 1984, when Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, an act that would in essence be positioning alcohol as a forbidden fruit.

Jeffrey Miron, a Harvard University economics professor and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, has argued that the law had "little or no life-saving effect." While a few states that adopted a stricter drinking age on their own saw limited, temporary success, the vast majority of states that prohibited

Ruth C. Engs, a professor at Indiana university states in her article, “Alcohol is neither seen as a poison or a magic potent, there is little or no social pressure to drink, irresponsible behavior is never tolerated, young people learn at home from their parents and from other adults how to handle alcohol in a responsible manner, there is societal consensus on what constitutes responsible drinking. Because the 21 year old drinking age law is not working, and is counterproductive, it behooves us as a nation to change our current prohibition law and to teach responsible drinking techniques for those who chose to consume alcoholic beverages.”