Drinking Age

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

Susan Weissman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living


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.

Spending On Alcohol

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living


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.

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

Morris E. Chafetz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics


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.

Ending Drunkenness in America

Stanton Peele | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living


Stanton Peele

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

You Know, Drinking Ain't So Bad for Most

Stanton Peele | Posted 01.21.2009 | Style


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!

Let Them Drink Beer

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics


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...

Vermont Looks To Lower Drinking Age

AP | JOHN CURRAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


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 ...