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Selatius

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Wed Aug-20-08 05:35 PM
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10. Drinking age should be dropped to 18.

Edited on Wed Aug-20-08 05:38 PM by Selatius

If you simply criminalize an activity, then you end up with Prohibition all over again. The activity goes underground, where no regulation is possible.

If the drinking age is lowered, drunk driving would still be drunk driving, and dying from alcohol poisoning would still be dying from alcohol poisoning, but the upshot is people who are not doing either binges or driving drunk would not be punished for something European teenagers do on a regular basis.

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