College Presidents asking for a lowered drinking age.

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Because it's at 21 I think there's a good portion of kids that have little to no exposure to alcohol UNTIL they get to college. And let's face it college isn't the best place to get your first exposure to alcohol. If your first real exposure to drinking involves doing keg stands and beer bongs, that's probably not a great idea.

Honestly I don't know what the answer is, but it's clear that the 21 age limit really isn't doing anything to deter drinking so why not try a different direction?

Yes it is detering people from drinking, and a lot of them, but there are still a lot that are undetered.

You're saying there is a problem, and to solve that problem, let's make the laws looser?

If we would ever change the law, it should go up, or go away completely. I would support either of those options.

(if we allowed it to go away completely, it would take a generation to get to where people are responsible like other countries with no drinking age, so we have to be willing to go through those growing pains.)

I personally wouldn't even care if we did another prohibition, but I know that would not be received well and would cause more problems than it creates, but alcohol and alcoholism is a bigger problem in this country than gun control and other issues that people are worried about, maybe our attention needs to be more focused on real issues like this?