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Bump for an article I wholly agree with (well, except for that WOD stuff...)

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You agree with legalizing for ALL ages?

Instead, children should learn to drink wine or beer with meals, as they do in Europe.

My (Wisconsinite) parents drink wine with dinner nearly every night, and I frequently did so too. When I went off to Madison for college - one of the nation's binge drinking meccas - I had no desire to do the same thrashing of my liver as so many of my classmates did. I had a different view of what alcohol was "good for."

Now, as for the people who saw it as their duty to be drunk for 72 hours starting Thursday night, even they aren't worse for the wear. By senior year, they no longer got drunk all of the time, and for the most part were intelligent enough to refrain from driving or jumping off of balconies.

(Most) People (eventually) learn about alcohol. Why not give them the opportunity to do it at a younger age, and under the supervision of their parents?

Tack that on to the argument that this is one area of policy that the government doesn't need to dictate, and I think you have reason enough to kill the National Minimum Drinking Age. After all, it's limited prohibition.