Posted on 03/20/2014 6:52:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
(CNN) -- It's been eight years since a black exotic dancer in Durham, North Carolina, accused three white Duke University lacrosse players of rape, sexual assault and kidnapping at a party. Whether you believe justice was adequately served -- without a trial, the North Carolina attorney general unilaterally declared the indicted players innocent -- one fact remains indisputable: A whole lot of underage drinking of beer and Jack Daniels was going on throughout much of that March day, badly impairing the judgment of the more than 40 man-boys in attendance.
According to a June 2006 study by Aaron White, then an assistant professor at the Duke University Medical Center, about 40% of college freshmen admitted they engaged in binge drinking: five or more drinks on one occasion. Some 20% of college freshmen admitted they drank even more: between 10 and 15 drinks per drinking session.
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Kansas had an 18 year old drinking age limit when I was in high school. They had 3.2 beer also. This may have only been for beer, and not hard liquor. I’m not sure of that, but it does seem to ring a bell.
Will these robot cars use the same gps that tells us to turn off an overpass?
No. Looking it up, I find , though it was always that way, and only on base, the law has changed:
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/justicelawlegislation/a/drinkingage.htm
Oh, boy.
What possessed me to jump in on a thread re drinking age ... this is the consequence.
Anecdotal.
There are far more teenagers who are drinking irresponsibly - as well as unlawfully, I might add - than there are as you described. Furthermore, you must be joking. Germany? Sorry, but my family lives in Germany. A few years ago our nephew was busted stone drunk with his buddies by their dad. He will still attending Gymnasium. His father expressed great concern over his drinking, and now as a grown young man, the son really has a problem. This is a norm in Germany.
My family has traveled throughout Europe. Young Germans love to brag about their early-age drinking, and they have the Facebook videos, drunken stupor, and “What happened last-night?” stories to prove it.
I know that in Italian culture, children are given diluted wine at an early age. The two cultures cannot be compared in their view and approach to under-aged drinking.
Sorry kids, but if you have to live on your parents insurance until you are 26, then that is when you become an adult.
Don’t like it? Then vote accordingly.
I sincerely think that military should be exempt from drinking laws.
NY by chance?
No, they would have plenty of time to learn to drink irresponsibly. Being illegal to consume a substance mankind has been quite fond of for thousands of years, is easy to obtain illegally, and is easy to make at home, such a “no booze before 40” prohibition would serve only to instill contempt for the law. Heck, I was a teetotaler until age 35, by which point even I’d have found a way (and soon after did: 1 part honey, 3-4 parts water, add champagne yeast, put in glass jug with airlock, wait a month - bingo: mead).
I wonder if we could all agree on this: The Federal Government should have ZERO SAY in this question. And the idea that they would coerce states into acting against their will on this or any other local issue, by threatening to withhold OUR OWN tax dollars is beyond the pale.
Ah. Wisconsin I checked after posting(should have done that first :)
And the voting gender to MALE. Four words: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama.
Let’s see, the special prosecutor concluded the “victim” made the whole thing up, the original prosecutor was disbarred for prosecutorial improprieties, the University settled with the accused for millions of dollars, and the “victim,” who had been in trouble before, continued getting into trouble and is now in prison for murder. Yet the author of this article strongly implies that the lack of prosecution was a miscarriage of justice. Idiot!
Yes. Surprised the heck out of me when I heard it works that way!
That’s not my experience in Germany. Of course it is conceivably.
My point is, raise the driving age.
Families who raise their kids to drink with a respect for the substance, come out ahead, in my experience.
Any parent has the responsibility to instruct and observe a kid’s propensity, and his family history.
Sending an 18 year old or even a kid who will turn 21 after he gets out of the house, after parents cant instruct them is not necessarily better.
19 months no doubt. Why start with teenagers.
I agree,,, if we raise the voting age to 45...
For a long time I’ve thought the legal drinking age should be the day you graduate from high school, or 19 if you didn’t graduate by then, or ever.
That would get drinking out of the high schools (provided there was enforcement, of course.
The problem now is that even most adults think it’s silly that a 20 year old, working, possibly married with child, adult can’t drink a beer or mixed drink legally. So everyone ignores the law. Kids see everyone ignoring the law, so they figure it’s no big deal to drink in high school, or earlier.
It was the same when Congress lowered the speed limit to 55 on the interstate in the 70’s to save fuel. Everyone ignored it and drove 70-75 anyway, but the effect on the kids riding in the back seats was to teach them that speed limits meant nothing.
The 19 or a high school diploma cutoff would be respected by most adults, and kids would learn the same respect. Combine that with decent enforcement and we could seriously curb teenage drinking.
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