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The Drinking Age: An 18-Year-Olds Right
Ever since the end of prohibition in 1933 the United States
government has placed the issue of MLDA (minimum legal drinking age)
sensitively in the hands of the states, letting each decide for itself what
the minimum age should be. At that time all agreed that the minimum lega ....
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.... to drink alcohol when before they
couldn't, it's going to take a while before that becomes the norm, and
therefore less exciting and alluring. These studies would have been far
more accurate if they had been done after society had adapted to the change.
When the government found that many of the states were lowering the
drinking age to 18 and 19, it began to worry about the safety of teens in
those and neighboring states. One of the ways that the government tried to
discourage this was by offering increased highway incentives for any states
who maintained a minimum. The states ....
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