Put drinking age back to 18, reduce troubles

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The drinking age should never have been raised to 21. The puritans who thought this up were wrong and created the problem we have today.

In the early 1970s I was a high school senior when I was legally able to buy alcohol in North Carolina. Sure I ran out and had a beer or two on my birthday, but it was very anticlimactic because I could co so legally.

I also watched the "lottery" back then to see if I was going to Vietnam, since I was 18. People who are 18 are able to vote, go to war, etc. To not allow them alcohol is what creates the prohibition problem.

I don't think people are more responsible at 21 and that's why the alcohol problem is reduced, I believe they are encountering what I did at 18, it's no longer a big deal. It's human nature, we want what we can't have.

As far as all the statistics, we have a saying in government employment "figures lie and liars figure." Everybody has statistics to prove their points. Junk science, my research was life, we didn't have these binge drinking problems because drinking alcohol was legal. Let's try it again.

Keith Olson

Ferndale

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