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Drinking Age

The World's Best Hole In The Wall

Al DeLuise | Posted 02.05.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Friendship, Hole in the Wall, Watering Holes, Drinking Age, Best Bars, Drinking, Best Holes in the Wall, Fifty News
Al DeLuise

Everyone had a favorite bar growing up, a place you could go to anytime and you'd be sure some of your friends would be there. For me, that place was Pete's. Pete's wasn't just a hole-in-the-wall -- it was where the hole-in-the-wall went when it wanted to get drunk. In other words, it was the greatest bar in the world.

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Shelley Emling

Do You Drink More Than Your Kids?

HuffingtonPost.com | Shelley Emling | Posted 01.08.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Health Post50, Middle Aged Drinking, Drinking Habits, Binge Drinking, Rethinking Drinking, Drinking Age, Teenage Drinking, Drinking, Alcoholism, Fifty News

For as long as I can remember, I have reached for a glass of wine when I wanted to relax. No, I’ve never made a habit of three-martini lunches -- an...

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Choices and Consequences: College and Beyond

Beverly Low | Posted 12.26.2012 | College
Read More: College Students, First Year of College, Freshmen, College Drinking, College, Residence-Halls, Choices, Parents of College Students, Dorms, Non-Drinkers, Drinking Age, College Freshmen, College Social Life, Parents, College News
Beverly Low

A lot of students will choose to drink alcohol at some point during their time in college. That's the reality. It's how they drink and how they value drinking that always gets my attention.

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In Defense of the Drinking Age

Deni Carise | Posted 08.06.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Binge Drinking, Drinking Age, Teen Drinking, Teens Drinking, Legal Drinking Age, Drinking Age 18, Drinking Age 21, Drinking Before 21, Underage Drinking, Health News, Healthy Living News
Deni Carise

Prohibition is not the answer. But neither is lowering the minimum legal drinking age.

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Rasmussen: 56% of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization; 58% if it's in Pharmacies

Russ Belville | Posted 07.22.2012 | Politics
Read More: Polls, Marijuana, Alcohol, Medical Marijuana, Cocaine Legalization, Rasmussen, Lower Drinking Age, Drinking Age, Cocaine, Politics News
Russ Belville

The latest public opinion poll to ask Americans about legalizing marijuana like alcohol and tobacco shows 56% agree with the idea, according to Rasmussen Reports. The support for marijuana legalization rises if it is to be sold only in pharmacies.

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High School Gay-Straight Alliance Takes On Mayor

| Posted 01.11.2012 | Home
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Every week, HuffPost High School rounds up the best local news stories about high school students from across the country through our friends at Patch...

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French Lessons: Why You Shouldn't Let Teens Drink At Home

www.npr.org | Posted 12.12.2011 | Fifty
Read More: Underage Drinking, Alcoholism, Drinking Age u.s., Lower Drinking Age, Binge Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Consumption, Europe, Drinking Age, Teen Drinking, Fifty News

Many European parents, and some American ones, too, have long figured if they let their kids drink alcohol at home, they'd be less likely to go hog wi...

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What's Wrong With the Drinking Age

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 10.04.2011 | Home
Read More: Parenting, Binge Drinking, Drinking Age, Drinking, Alcohol, Food, Drinking Age u.s., Lower Drinking Age, Teen Drinking, Home News
Kurt Michael Friese

As a group, the American people decided we were unable to raise our children with the understanding that wine, beer and cocktails are foods, and so we asked our government to treat them as drugs.

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Throw It Back Or Throw It Up: How Will The Allergy Generation Handle Their Drink?

Susan Weissman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Food Allergies, Immunity, Drinking Age, Teenagers, Allergies, Alcohol, Health, Healthy Living News
Susan Weissman

Let's call them The Allergy Generation. They are the approximate two million children in the U.S. who are growing up with life-threatening food allergies.

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Spending On Alcohol

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Economy, University of Michigan, Beer, Economic Crisis, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Youth Radio, Drinking and Driving, Wine, Lauren Silverman, Binge Drinking, Youthradio, Drinking Age, Drinking, Addiction & Recovery, Health, Healthy Living News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

They say to start saving when you're young. After my 21st birthday I took this advice and made a commitment to cut down on spending. Unfortunately, beginning to save and turning 21 seem to mix about as well as Bailey's Irish cream and lime juice.

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The 21-Year-Old Drinking Age: I Voted for It; It Doesn't Work

Morris E. Chafetz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Drinking and Driving, Legal Age 21, Drinking Age, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Addiction & Recovery, Politics News
Morris E. Chafetz

It is time to liberate ourselves from the tyranny of "experts," who invoke "science" in order to advance a prohibitionist agenda. Prohibition does not work. It has never worked. It is not working among 18-20 year-olds now.

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Ending Drunkenness in America

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Stanton Peele

Hopefully, teens will never drink. Instead, they can consume tons of corn starch in soft drinks and snack foods.

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You Know, Drinking Ain't So Bad for Most

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Drinks, Mixed Drinks, Growing Up, Bacardi, Manischiewitz, First Drink, Birthday Parties, Drinking Age, Drinking, Memories, Social Drinking, Celebratory Drinking, Moderate Drinking, Style News
Stanton Peele

At my neighbor's 87th birthday, we practiced harm reduction. None of us got stinking drunk. Furthermore, the birthday boy and I each only had to stagger back out across the hallway-no steps!

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Let Them Drink Beer

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Chris Weigant

There was a news item today about a group of college presidents who have signed on to an effort to "rethink" the drinking age in America. While not e...

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Vermont Looks To Lower Drinking Age

AP | JOHN CURRAN | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Drinking Age u.s., Lower Drinking Age, Drinking Age Vermont, Drinking Age, Teens and Drinking, Drinking Age 18, Healthy Living News

MONTPELIER, Vt. — More than two decades after the country established a uniform drinking age of 21, a nascent movement is afoot to allow 18- to ...

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