Should the Drinking Age be Lowered?

An article in Sunday's Parade magazine makes the case for lowering the drinking age. The article, which quickly rose on the charts on the web through news sites like Digg and Reddit on Sunday, points out that today's young adults are ill-equipped to learn to drink in social settings, but rather binge drink in back-alleys and fields."''It's bad social policy and bad law,' says John McCardell, the former president of Vermont's Middlebury College, who in January launched an organization called