Westminster joins the party
Westminster College in Salt Lake City has joined 100 of the nation's top universities in calling for the drinking age to be lowered from 21 to 18.Westminster, along with Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, argue the 21 age restriction actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.
John McCardell, former president of Middlebury College in Vermont founded the so-called Amethyst Initiative to lower the drinking age (the Greeks believed the purplish gemstone warded off drunkeness):
Brigham Young University, America's "No.1 stone-cold sober" university, has yet to sign the initiative.This is a law that is routinely evaded. It is a law that the people at whom it is directed believe is unjust and unfair and discriminatory.
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I work in Amsterdam three weeks on and three weeks off. The drinking age for beer and wine is 16. Hard alcohol and soft drugs is 18. Holland has one of the lowest levels of soft drug and alcohol use in Europe. It's less than half the US. Accident? I think not. You don't demonize it. You teach responsibility. You end up with people who don't have problems. There's nothing worse than a young adult who's left the Mormon church. They go wild with no restrictions.
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