One hundred college presidents support lowering the legal age for drinking to 18 “based on research.”

This thought-provoking statement raises many interesting questions, such as research methods, design, population, sample size, etc. Is there a correlation between brain development, behavior, impulse control and alcohol?

Will this push the problem back into the middle and high schools?

Will mood disorders, suicides and fatal car accidents decrease?

Will the earlier introduction to alcohol with tweens and teens stop at its present levels?

Has the history of this issue been revisited? In 1974, the drinking age was lowered by the activism of the baby boomer generation during the Vietnam War. For some reason, in the mid-1980s, the age was raised back to 21 in a campaign led by the founder of Mothers Against Drunken Driving. Why?

Are these 100 presidents referencing research from one of their own academic think tanks?

History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.

Peter Stenberg, Lisbon Falls