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Should the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Be Lowered from 21 to a Younger Age?
Pro (Yes)
Pro
"I'm always the guy to advocate for lower ages. I just believe that the lower the age the better you come to grips with what these substances are...
If you can go to Iraq and die, or Afghanistan and die as a service man or women at 18, and you can’t drink — I'm sorry I don't buy into that...
Hypothetically no, there shouldn't be [a drinking age]... but the lower the age the better."
Source: Steven Nelson, "Gary Johnson: Lower the Drinking Age!," dailycaller.com, Apr. 10, 2012
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Not Clearly Pro or Con
"Empower communities to implement preventive programming for adolescents about drug use and addiction. Clinton believes that we need to do far more as a nation to educate our youth, as well as their families, teachers, coaches, mentors and friends to intervene early in order to prevent drug and alcohol abuse and addiction. School-based programs that are developmentally appropriate, and community-wide peer mentoring and leadership programs, can be highly effective means of delaying or preventing the first use of alcohol or drugs. Clinton will help state and local leaders put in place effective, evidence-based, and locally-tailored programs to meet their needs."
Source: 2016 Hillary for America, "Hillary Clinton's Initiative to Combat America's Deadly Epidemic of Drug and Alcohol Addiction," hillaryclinton.com, Sep. 2, 2015
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No position found as of July 6, 2016
Not Clearly Pro or Con
"The world is so tough and it is so competitive that you can't put yourself, as a child, or even as a parent, if you want that child to be successful, at a disadvantage of letting them drink or letting them take drugs because it is not going to work... They are going to be at a tremendous disadvantage and ultimately they may not recover."
Source: Seth McLaughlin, "Trump Says Straight-Edged Lifestyle More Likely to Lead to Happiness, Success," washingtontimes.com, Dec. 1, 2015
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FORMER CANDIDATES
(Candidates who have withdrawn or who no longer meet our criteria appear below in black and white and in alphabetical order.)
Pro (Yes)
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"I do not feel the drinking age should be raised [from 18 to 21]. Aside from the economics involved, if our young people are given the right and responsibility to vote and are drafted into the armed forces to die for their country, then they should be given the responsibility to decide when and how much to drink."
Source: Jacob Holzman, "The Bernie Files: Bernie Sanders on the Drinking Age," [quoting a May 9, 1985 letter from Bernie Sanders while he served as mayor of Burlington, VT, to a constituent], vtcynic.com, Aug. 30, 2015
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