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The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 (23 U.S.C. § 158) was passed by the United States Congress and was later signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on July 17, 1984. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The act would punish any state that allowed persons under 21 years to purchase alcoholic beverages by reducing its annual federal highway ...
The current purchase age of 21 remains a point of contention among many Americans, because of it being higher than the age of majority (18 in most states) and higher than the purchase ages of most other countries. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act is also seen as a congressional sidestep of the Tenth Amendment.
Since 1984, when the National Minimum Drinking Age Act made the minimum legal drinking age for every state in the nation 21, there has been a steady increase in the prevalence of alcohol use, heavy use, and frequent use among underage drinkers as the age increases. Across all ages, the highest rates of alcohol abuse occur among persons 19 years ...
In the United States, the national legal drinking age is 21 years old and has been so since 1984. However, according to information provided by the Alcohol Policy Information System — a project ...
On July 17, 1984, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was enacted. The Act requires all states to either set their minimum age to purchase alcoholic beverages and the minimum age to possess alcoholic beverages in public to no lower than 21 years of age or lose 10% (Changed to 8% in 2012) of their allocated federal highway funding if the ...
In 1984, the National Drinking Age Act raised the drinking age to 21 in all 50 states. Two years later, in 1986, the town of Lajitas, Texas, elected a beer-drinking goat named Clay Henry to be its ...
The hoax site, Sunday Times Daily recently reported that the legal drinking age in the United States would change to 25 and this new law would take effect on August 2, 2014. As you can imagine ...
In 1984, the United States Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act (NMDAA), which withheld a percentage – 5% in the first year the law was in effect, 10% thereafter – of federal highway funding from states that did not maintain a minimum legal drinking age of 21. [3]