Choose Responsibility

This needs to be addressed. We expect our young adults to be responsible, yet we give them mixed messages. They can vote, they can register guns, they can enlist...but they can't be introduced to alcohol legally until they are 21 years old? This causes secretive, dangerous binge drinking and is a perverted and very dangerous approach, which in no way teaches responsible alcohol use.

They should all have that policy!

RIDICULOUS! We expect college-age young adults to fight and vote but drive them into "the closet" with regard to alcohol. It is abnormal and makes for dangerous situations promoted by secrecy, dishonesty and desperation for a social life that is age-appropriate. No beer with a burger after school on Friday? Instead, let's go to a frat house and ... Read Moreplay drinking games and binge. The ignorance among those making the rules astounds me. Wonder what they did at their ages? I think I know. So soon they forget. Europeans have it right. Decriminalize alcohol and teach people to sip and enjoy, not guzzle in darkness and die.

not sure I think it's ignorant to try to protect people from themselves.

Good to have rules. Don't understanding treating 19 year olds who can vote like they are 15. Education and expectation of responsibility needed. I think we are causing more problems with this attitude. But you are more of an expert on this than I am, for sure. I just don't see what is going on as something that is working to promote healthy ... Read Moredrinking (if that makes sense). If anything, I think 21-25 year olds seem younger and more obsessed with alcohol when it finally becomes legal than our generation did. And in college there is a double standard between the Greeks and the non-Greeks, as this article states. I can't say I completely know what the answer is. I just don't think this is working.