Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The Dangers of Drinking

I was surfing Instapundit and came upon this article.  It seems that freshmen at Central Washington University went to a party and were given alcohol, with something else in it. 

In the headlines over the weekend was a what looks like a mass drugging of mostly female students at a party held by students of Central Washington University. Police were tipped off and arrived to find more than a dozen overdosed students, many passed out on the ground. Authorities suspect foul play:
Ya think?

Somewhere along the line, we got the idea that college students are children.  That's a bad idea.  As horrific as the thought of drugging someone might be, I'd propose that it's even more horrific to legislate that a person who is 18 years old can't legally drink alcohol.  It's just another iteration of our nanny-state, who believes that we should be wet-nursed until we're in our grave.

The simple fact of the matter is that college kids are going to consume alcohol.  If they can't do it legally, they'll find a way around the law.  I'd bet that if these kids were partying in a bar, they'd have been less likely to get a drugged drink.  How's that nanny-state working out for you?

1 comment:

Paul said...

When and where I grew up, at 18 you could get beer, liquor was 21. They raised the drinking age to 21 about the time I turned 21 -- to "keep the booze out of high school".

Observation of teenagers 30 years later shows that idea didn't work out.