When Was The Drinking Age 18

The two exceptions are Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands where the age is 18.

When was the drinking age 18. Other provinces followed suit with PEI. In 1980 it was raised back to 21. In 1973 the drinking age for beer and wine was lowered to 19.

In the 1960s the age for buying or drinking beer and wine in the District of Columbia Washington DC was 18. Between 1970 and 1976 30 states lowered their Minimum Legal Drinking Age MLDA from 21 to 18 19 or 20. In the early 70s the sale of alcohol was reduced to the age of 18.

The enactment of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 4 prompted states to raise their legal age for purchase or public possession of alcohol to 21 or risk losing millions in federal highway funds. Michigan lowered the minimum drinking age from 21 to 18 in 1972 raised it from 18 to 19 in 1978 and. Being the last to move to a drinking age of 19 in 1987.

1 of 1839 became the first liquor licensing legislation in the Province including three licenses. Possibly because of concerns about 18-year-old high school students being able to legally purchase liquor and then illegally consume it school the state raised the drinking age to 19 in 1980. After the abolishment of prohibition Michigan established the minimum drinking age as 21.

Even the neighboring Canada has set the drinking age to 18 and 19 years depending on the province some people exclaimed. Return the drinking age to 18 -- and then enforce the law. In Mexico it is 18 for each.

Advocates of lowering the drinking age use examples such. 3 According to the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility 4 between 1982 the first year of record-keeping with an all-time high of 5215 persons under age 21 killed in drunk-driving accidents and 2017 most recent statistics 1064 under age 21 killed drunk driving fatalities nationally fell by almost half down 48 while all-cause driving fatalities fell 16. Residents from Virginia and Maryland would often drive to DC.