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Re: Shiri - A one time thing?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 27 Jul 2001 06:04:51 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Dave Low writes:
> In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Charles Eric McCarthy writes:
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> > Actually, the drinking age in all the USA is now 21, so that can't be the
> > reason.
> > I was guessing the real reason had to do with pornographic Lego models. :-)
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> May I ask why the drinking age in the US is 21? Do any other
> rights/privileges accrue at that age, or is everything else 16/18+? Or is
> alcohol thought to be such a dangerous drug that it shouldn't be used while
> someone is still in their teens?
Because US Congress, overstepping their bounds as usual, attatched a
conditional to highway funds so that if a state had a lower drinking age
than 21, they would not get the highway funds. (Of course the money comes
from the citizens of the states in the first place..)
So the states with drinking ages of 18 raised it. About 3 years ago the
Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that it was wrong to deny drinking rights to
those aged 18 - 20 and it was immediately once again lowered to 18 in that
state, but a few weeks later they were pressured to change the ruling.
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