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The National Minimum Drinking Age Act is also seen as a congressional sidestep of the Tenth Amendment. Although debates have not been highly publicized, a few states have proposed legislation to lower their purchase age, [5] while Guam raised its purchase age to 21 in July 2010. [6]
Some states have lower alcohol taxes and even made alcohol available to be purchased tax-free at state-owned stores to compete with Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts. [13] Teen drinking in high school is down 23% since 1983, when the minimum legal drinking age was enacted, and binge drinking is down 17%. [14]
"The case against 21: Lowering the drinking age", National Review. April 2007. "A sobering proposal". Chronicle of Higher Education. Live discussions. April 5, 2007. "Binge drinking and the drinking age". Huffington Post. May 8, 2007. Routly, P. "All stirred up: A former Vermont college prez is leading a national campaign to lower the drinking ...
A 2023 survey from Gallup found that the share of adults under age 35 who say they ever drink dropped ten percentage points in two decades, to 62% in 2021-2023 from 72% in 2001-2003.
In Australia, where the legal drinking age is 18, researchers conducted focus groups and surveyed teens ages 15 to 17 about the use of what they called zero-alcohol beverages. They found that more ...
In the United States, the national legal drinking age is 21 years old and has been so since 1984. ... Some parents point to Europe, where the drinking age is lower and there is, generally speaking ...
It’s time to rethink the drinking age. In 1984, Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which imposed a penalty of 10% of a state's federal highway appropriation on any state setting its drinking age lower than 21. Twenty-four years later, our experience as college and university presidents convinces us that…
The NIAAA reports that the Dietary Guidelines for Americans: 2020-2025, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture state that adults of legal drinking age can ...