Listening to the radio today, I heard a Michigan college (i.e. university) proudly announce that it had had no alcohol-related deaths among its students since 1999.
To my ears, that's not good news, but an exception-proves-the-rule indictment of American alcohol laws, which forbid people from drinking alcohol under the age of 21 (who says Prohibition ended in 1933?).
Given that most Americans only drink light beer, which contains about 2% alcohol, it beats me why they don't lower the legal drinking age to, say, 18.
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