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Should the Minimum Drinking Age Be Changed?
Journal article by Eileen H. Tamura;
Social Studies, Vol. 83, 1992. 6 pgs.

In this journal article a group of student first looks at the law that changed the legal drinking age from 18 to 21. This is a topic that most high school student could relate to so they first looked at the fundamentals’ of how the law was changed. Some new facts that I found out while reading this was that the law was changed because of highway regulations. Only 26 states actually changed the legal drinking age to 18. When legislation was passed to change it back to 21 the states that did not change it back to 21 had reduced highway funding by 10% which extremely hurts the state transportation funds. If we are ever going to change the legal drinking age we will have to lift this piece of legislation first. With the complications that must take place to lift this ban I do not see the drinking age changing anytime soon.