[UA] Explain American laws to me

[stuartanderson at uswest.net]

Gregory Paul Stolze wrote:

> At 03:29 PM 09/01/2000 GMT, you wrote:
>
> >I think its weirder that you can die for your country but it won't allow you
> >to drink.  Of course, underage drinking in the service isn't strictly
> >punished, I might add.
> >
> >From what I understand, states that didn't raise their drinking age to 21
> >where withheld federal highway money, and therefore were forced to do so.
> >Similar to how the federal government is trying to force medical marijuana
> >off the tracks.  Damn bastards.
>
> I believe that military personnel under the age of 21 are allowed to drink
> on military bases.

That's an old law. It's no longer the case. It's where 3.2 beer (otherwise known
as military beer, supermarket beer, 7-11 beer, or swill) came from. When I posted
previously on Lawrence's dryishness when I went to school there, I neglected to
mention that the difference between a private club and a tavern was that a tavern
could only serve military beer. The detail continues to pop up in arcane liquor
legislation, despite the fact there's no longer any reason for it. Maybe the
gubment doesn't want to appear to have not gotton its millions of dollars worth
from the project that determined 3.2 as the optimum alcohol content for
children's beer.
--Stu.

>
>
> -G.
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>         -- For my money, the scariest sentence John Tynes ever wrote.
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