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First Missouri Initiative to Lower Drinking Age (2008)
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If it had made the ballot, and if voters had approved it, it would have:
- lowered the legal age for the manufacture, sale, supply, purchase, possession and consumption of alcohol from twenty-one years of age to eighteen years of age
- removed the age limit to sell or handle liquor or beer
- revised related criminal penalties consistent with the lower legal age
The Missouri 18 To Drink campaign concluded it couldn't collect the 100,000 signatures needed by May.
Proponents
- Mr. Michael Mikkelsen
It has been noted that drinking ages should be the right of the states to set-not federal issue. Other states running a similar initiaitve include: Kentucky, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Opposition
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) led opposition to the measure. "We welcome the attention to the drinking age," says MADD CEO Chuck Hurley. "The data is in fact overwhelming."[1]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says laws setting the drinking age at 21 have cut traffic fatalities involving drivers ages 18-20 by 13%.
Also, according to a federal mandate, 10% of of the states federal highway funds would be revoked if the drinking age is lowered.
