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.”
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