What About the Drinking Age?

Jeff Krantz has an article here. It shows what some European students studying in the US think about the drinking age at 21.

The Initiative

It’s a little superfluous to start this blog now. Either we will get the 100,000 signatures we need to get the initiative on the ballot by May 5th or we won’t. Right now, it’s looking like it’s on the ‘won’t’ side of things. But that doesn’t mean the initiative is dead. Not even close. We’ll be back at it for our chance at 2010.

In case you’re stumbling on this and don’t know what I’m talking about here, I’ll break the movement down into it’s basics.

What it is:

• An initiative to lower the drinking age in Missouri to 18.
• An initiative to give all adults the respect they deserve instead of holding some in reserve until they turn 21.
• An initiative for equality.

What it is not:

• An initiative promoting binge drinking.
• An initiative seeking anarchy.
• An initiative looking to lower the drinking age just because 18 year olds want to drink.

The Journal speaks

Read it here.

It’s a nice little article. Pretty good coverage of both sides of the debate.

It’s from The Journal.