0
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. The law was later amended, lowering the penalty to eight percent from fiscal year 2012 and beyond. States were forced to outlaw the purchase and public possession of Alcoholic Beverages by people under 21. Exceptions include possession (and presumably drinking) for religious practices, while in the company of parents, spouses, or guardians who are over 21, medical uses, and during the course of legal employment. The act was expressly upheld as constitutional in 1987 by the United States Supreme Court in South Dakota v. Dole. The minimum drinking age is 21 in all 50 U.S. states.
Wiki User
∙ 6y ago
Wiki User
∙ 6y agoThe 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. The law was later amended, lowering the penalty to eight percent from fiscal year 2012 and beyond. States were forced to outlaw the purchase and public possession of alcoholic beverages by people under 21. Exceptions include possession (and presumably drinking) for religious practices, while in the company of parents, spouses, or guardians who are over 21, medical uses, and during the course of legal employment. The act was expressly upheld as constitutional in 1987 by the United States Supreme Court in South Dakota v. Dole.
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoWhy did new york state change the drinking age to 21?
Because Fat chicks were getting pregnant at an early age!
Wiki User
∙ 14y agoThey didn't...it'd 19
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Who raised the drinking age?
the drinking age is 8. TB+D*
Should the drinking age be raised?
no
When was the drinking age raised?
1984
What was the drinking age in Florida in 1984?
The drinking age in Florida in 1984 was 19 years old. It was later raised to 21 in 1985 as part of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act.
What is the drinking age in Louisiana?
in 1987, the legal drinking age in Louisiana was raised from 18, to 21.
What was the legal drinking age in Florida in 1983?
It hasn't During the early 1970s it was reduced to 18.
When did Massachusetts change legal drinking age?
Massachusetts changed the legal drinking age from Age 18 to Age 20 on April 16, 1979. It was raised again from Age 20 to Age 21 on December 5, 1984 by Governor Michael Dukasis. He was forced to raise the drinking age to 21 or face losing $25.5 million in Federal Highway Funding. All states were mandated to raise the drinking age to 21 by October 1, 1986.
What year did New Jersey change the drinking age from 18 to 21?
After the end of prohibition the minimum drinking age in New York was 18. New York State raised its minimum drinking age from 18 to 19 years in 1982 and raised it from 19 to 21 years on December 1, 1985.
When was the drinking age raised to 25?
The minimum drinking age is 21 in all 50 U.S. states. It never was age 25.
What is the drinking age in NY?
The minimum drinking age in New York is 21. New York State raised its minimum drinking age from 18 to 19 years in 1982 and raised it from 19 to 21 years on December 1, 1985.
When did the legal drinking age change in ga?
Prior to 1972 the minimum drinking age was 21 in Georgia. Georgia lowered its minimum drinking age from 21 to 18 years in 1972, raised it from 18 to 19 in 1984, raised it from 19 to 20 in 1985, and raised it from 20 to 21 in 1986.
Minium drinking age in Spain?
The legal drinking age in Spain used to be 16 in many regions. From time to time the age was raised from 16 to 18. In 2013 the last (autonomous) region, Asturias with a drinking age of 16 raised it to 18. Today the drinking age is 18 in all regions, but often unenforced.
