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I am totally in favor of raising the drinking age. In Ohio we have the Ohio Responsible Drinking Initiative (ORDI) that will accomplish 5 major points.
1. Raise the drinking age to 23. (College age children should not have access to alcohol.)
2. Lower BAC to 0.07%.
3. Ban all Sunday sales, purchase and consumption of alcohol.
4. Give Ohio State Highway Patrol same jurisdiction on private property as well as public property for DUI and alcohol/drug investigations and arrests.
5. Give 72 hour automatic drivers license suspensions to any person arrested for alcohol related offense. (This would be for licensed drivers who commit an alcohol related offense while not driving.)

Only until we accept that alcohol related offenses are killing our young and destroying our families can we dare say we are a just society.

(One footnote: MADD will not support this initiative and we encourage everyone from holding back financial support for MADD until they support ORDI!)

I wholeheartedly disagree with everything you posted. Everything.

1. Raise the drinking age to 23. (College age children should not have access to alcohol.)

Why should "college age children" not have access to alcohol? At 18 one can vote, enter legal agreements, purchase a firearm, join the military and fight for and possibly die for America, but they shouldn't have "access to alcohol"?

2. Lower BAC to 0.07%.

0.08% is low enough, though I supported keeping it at .10%.

3. Ban all Sunday sales, purchase and consumption of alcohol.

Why should people not be allowed to purchase alcohol on Sunday? Why should people not be allowed to go out for a nice dinner with a bottle of wine on Sunday? And by what authority and reason should the stated ban the consumption of alcohol on Sunday? Give me one good, legitimate, and non-totalitarian reason that I should not be able to sit on my couch, watch football, and have a beer on Sunday.

4. Give Ohio State Highway Patrol same jurisdiction on private property as well as public property for DUI and alcohol/drug investigations and arrests.

Let me know what other amendments besides the 4th you would like to eliminate.

5. Give 72 hour automatic drivers license suspensions to any person arrested for alcohol related offense. (This would be for licensed drivers who commit an alcohol related offense while not driving.)

Why should one lose their drivers license for non driving related offenses?