2008-09-03, 10:49 AM
I don't know if any of you have heard about this, though its likely since a lot of us are affected by it (in the age range of 18-20).
http://www.amethystinitiative.org/
It's called the Amethyst Initiative and I guess originally it was just a petition signed by a hundred college presidents. Now, it's gaining momentum and they have decided to take it to the federal government and see if they can get anywhere. It would remove the highway clause (or whatever it's called)--the one that says states can have their drinking age at whatever they like, but if they don't make it 21+, they won't get federal funding for their highways...
Basically, it would lower the drinking age to ~18 (states could set it to whatever they like but in all likelihood they would set it to 18). I mean, it makes sense, right? We're old enough to sign our lives away to the army, smoke cigarettes, gamble all our money away, but we can't booze around!
Whatcha think? Do you support it? Is it a bad idea? Do you think that if teenagers had the opportunity to drink at an earlier age, they would be less inclined to have issues? (This is what my friends argue--if we lower the age, there will be less rebellion, and then people won't be so stupid about how they drink...)
http://www.amethystinitiative.org/
It's called the Amethyst Initiative and I guess originally it was just a petition signed by a hundred college presidents. Now, it's gaining momentum and they have decided to take it to the federal government and see if they can get anywhere. It would remove the highway clause (or whatever it's called)--the one that says states can have their drinking age at whatever they like, but if they don't make it 21+, they won't get federal funding for their highways...
Basically, it would lower the drinking age to ~18 (states could set it to whatever they like but in all likelihood they would set it to 18). I mean, it makes sense, right? We're old enough to sign our lives away to the army, smoke cigarettes, gamble all our money away, but we can't booze around!
Whatcha think? Do you support it? Is it a bad idea? Do you think that if teenagers had the opportunity to drink at an earlier age, they would be less inclined to have issues? (This is what my friends argue--if we lower the age, there will be less rebellion, and then people won't be so stupid about how they drink...)