Jackson50 on 11 November 2008
| Moongoddess256 said: ooo ooo I learned why the drinking age is 21 in political science class! So once upon a time there was this group called MADD and what happened is they pushed the federal gov't to make the drinking age 21. But thats not in the federal governments power to do! So what they did was threaten the states that if they didn't change the age to 21+ then they would cut highway funds by 10% per year. And thats the story of how a small minority made the federal government intervene in what should be a state issue! Also, I still think heroin and coke can stay illegal. Those really aren't things that should be readily available for people to try out. |
That was challenged in federal court, and the Supreme Court ruled that it was constitutional. This case was known as South Dakota v. Dole, and the ruling was most unfortunate.
