For any of you who are for legal age 21 rely on the "brain developement" argument, which is the strongest argument applied. However, if even moderate & responsible consumption of alcohol under 21 really did cause brain damage & alcoholism, then most of Western Europe's population would be brain damaged alcoholics. Most baby boomers would be alcoholics too & nearly every US State & Canadian Province that didn't have prohibition before 1919 had absolutely no drinking age or war on drugs at all. Were New Yorkers more Alcoholic than North Dakotans throughout much of the 20th century? This is gonna shock the neo-prohibitionists when I tell them that North Dakota is the most alcoholic state in America, despite a legal drinking age of 21 since prohibition. Canada has less problems with alcoholism & drunk driving because laws against dangerous driving are actually enforced instead of harassing responsible drinkers who DONT drive after drinking. Does that make sense? I hope so, & what's awful is the legal drinking age of 21 was paraded as the best solution to curb drunk driving over every other common sense measure such as strict enforcement against dangerous driving & seeking justice for victims. America is a backwards country when it comes to this issue. Is it better for society to accept people damaging their brains with excessive alcohol abuse after they turn 21 while pretending to curb alcohol abuse by punishing 20 year olds and under for sipping beer regardless of how responsible they are; or is it best that the truth be heard, alcohol education teaching people the difference between the use & abuse of substances, & alcohol abuse & deadly driving at ALL ages be condemned as a social infidelity? Neo-prohibitionist scaremongers like D.A.R.E. have failed to prevent substance abuse by bombarding students with treachery & lies.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”-Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister
The Neo-Prohibitionist elitists such as M.A.D.D. use the majority to help promote their agenda & suppressing all dissent sounds like a wonderful thing for tyrants to accomplish!
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