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The Drinking Age Debate: MADD vs College Deans

By Lawrence Taylor

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The debate over the minimum drinking age has continued for decades, with the recent focus being on whether it makes sense to send American youth to fight and perhaps die in foreign countries – but not to drink alcohol. Our generals have expressed strong views on the subject. See MADD vs USMC. Mothers Against Drunk Driving, ever vigilant in its Prohibitionist goals (see MADD and the New Prohibition), has fought hard (and successfully) against exposing our troops to the evils of alcohol. A second front, long simmering, has now errupted: the drinking age for college students. MADD, whose "Mission Statement" was amended a few years ago from preventing drunk driving to including preventing underage drinking, is adamantly against lowering the age to 18...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on August 19, 2008 (boomark / email).

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