Re: [CH] US Alcohol policy
Brent Leatherman (BrentLeatherman@netscape.net)
Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:56:27 -0400
21 to drink? Heck, I was a dishwasher in a bar & grill when I was 15...
B
"robhuns1" <robhuns1@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> How many of us that are in the United States of North America actually
> waited till they were 21 to drink? I started to drink beer and whiskey when
> I was in the 6th grade. I remember street vendors in Washington DC(the
> nations capital) selling me and my friends beer while on a school field trip
> to the Smithsonian. Now heroin and crack are more accessable than alcohol is
> for kids in the USA. They can't seem to get the drug dealers to enforce an
> age limit.....go figure.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <mstevens@exit109.com>
> To: <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:28 PM
> Subject: [CH] US Alcohol policy
>
>
> > At 08:00 AM 6/6/01 +0200, T wrote:
> > >> It's not always that easy; restaurants and bars that serve alcohol are
> > >> frequently the target of 'sting' enforcement by decoys, and the servers
> > >> of alcohol may have a *responsibility* to report such
> > >
> > >Don't police in the US have more important things to do, especially when
> in
> > >most of the world even 18 year olds can buy alcohol?
> > >
> > >Here in CH it's 16 (18 for hard liquor), and not enforced.
> >
> > There's a separate country for Chile Heads?
> >
> > >Until recently,
> > >most people here didn't even know that there was a minimum age.
> > >
> >
> > It's a political football here. A largely prudish population demands that
> it's
> > elected officials and law enforcement be resolute on maintaining the "War"
> on
> > the use of alcohol by minors. Anyone in public service that does not toe
> the
> > party line on this is considered not to have the best interest of the
> children
> > in mind. They refuse to let their opinions be clouded by inconvenient
> facts
> > and feel that not allowing people under 21 enjoy a sip of beer or wine in
> a
> > social setting will somehow prevent them from succumbing to alcoholism.
> As a
> > result alcohol becomes a "forbidden Fruit" and gives those who indulge in
> it
> > underage that slight thrill of rebellion.
> >
> > The fact that so much of the world includes alcohol in a family/social
> setting
> > with no age barriers and suffer much less substance abuse seems to make no
> > impression. The irony that folks who can drive, vote and join the Armed
> Forces
> > and die for the country is often cited, but as was said, no public
> official
> > would commit political suicide by questioning the status quo.
> >
> >
> > =Mark "Runs With Scissors" Stevens
> >
> > @ http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens @
> > @ ICQ# 2059548 @
> >
> > Dyslexic Agnostic Insomniac...
> >
> > Lying awake at night, wondering if there is a dog.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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