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Yes. Persons under age 21 may be on licensed premises, and can be sold and allowed to drink alcohol beverages, if they are with their parents, guardians, or spouses, as long as those persons are of legal drinking age; but this is at the discretion of the licensee."
There was a federal mandate in 1986 that any state with a drinking age under 21 would lose federal highway funds. Basically the same thing they did to get all states to require 55 mph speed limits back in the 70s. The drinking age in Wisconsin prior to that was 18.
Interestingly, 19 states do not specifically prohibit drinking under the age of 21, only the purchase and public possession (with certain exceptions) of alcohol.
Actually , the drinking age change in Michigan preceded the National Minimum Drinking age Act (July 17, 1984). Proposition 13 ( 1980) changed the drinking age from 18 to 21 . I know , because i was attending MSU at the time , and all of the bars suffered greatly as a result .
Interestingly, 19 states do not specifically prohibit drinking under the age of 21, only the purchase and public possession (with certain exceptions) of alcohol.
It's 1980, not 1978, I know because I was 18, when the law was 18, 19 when it changed to 19 and 21 when it changed to 21 - I turned 21 in 1980 - I was a student at EMU.
The minimum purchase and drinking age is a state law. Each individual U.S. state establishes by law the minimum age at which an individual may purchase alcoholic beverages. The U.S. Government passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act on July 17, 1984. This did not change the drinking age. However, it forced the individual states to establish the minimum drinking age as 21 or lose 10% of their federal highway funding. All U.S. states adopted the age 21 law by 1986.
After the abolishment of prohibition, Michigan established the minimum drinking age as 21. Michigan lowered the minimum drinking age from 21 to 18 in 1972, raised it from 18 to 19 in 1978, and raised it from 19 to 21 in 1978.
Wisconsin increased the minimum drinking age from 19 to 21 on September 1, 1986.
It was July 17, 1984 when the national drinking age was passed.
They raised it in 1967 after theiejdk
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In 2009, under Nicolas Sarkozy's Government.
In 1969, the legal drinking age in New York State was 18 years old. It wasn't until the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 that all states were required to raise their drinking age to 21.
The legal drinking age in Vanuatu is 18
16 is the legal drinking age in France.
there is no drinking age
UAE legal drinking age is 21, so It's same drinking age as USA.
18 is the legal drinking age in England, however there is talk of raising it to 21.
The legal drinking age in the Cayman Islands is 18.
It depends. 3.2 Beer was legal at age 18 in many states until Federeal Highway dollars were held hostage from states who did not raise their drinking age to 21.
The legal minimum drinking age in Mississippi is 21.
The current legal drinking age in Saskatchewan is 19.