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Some people think alcohol abuse at colleges has gotten WORSE since the age was raised to 21 in the mid-80s. (I'm one of them.) It actually was 21 in many states back in earlier decades. It was around the time of the 1960s if I'm correct that most states lowered it to 18 in large part due to "if I'm old enough to get drafted and have my ass shot off, I'm old enough to have a beer" agitation on the part of young people. By the time MADD was raising a ruckus in the 1980s, those same people didn't seem quite so concerned about protecting their children's rights to drink.
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