Update: A new report has been released and added to the drinking age resource. This breaks the myth that raising the drinking age was good for drunk driving. It wasn't. Get the facts here. To keep this great resource updated, NYRA needs your financial support, to make a donation click here.
Lower the drinking age.
Consider this one-stop shopping for all your drinking age needs. The National Youth Rights Association strongly supports lowering the drinking age and has created this resource for the use of all like-minded individuals. Plenty of tools to confront and beat the Youth Prohibitionist movement. Find answers to your frequently asked questions, get legal research on drinking age laws for all 50 states, and read the history of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. Since NYRA believes in fairness, we even link to our opposition. If you do any research or writing on the topic of lowering the drinking age NYRA would love to add it to our collection, so please upload your paper here.
Opinion Frequently Asked Questions
Read NYRA's arguments for lowering the drinking age. Here we also address criticisms by Youth Prohibitionists. Solutions
Check out what we want to see, why we want to see the drinking age lowered, and how it will be better than our current system. NYRA Position Paper
Read NYRA's official position paper on the drinking age. This is where we take a stand on the issue.
Research Drinking Age Laws
Here is a plain english look at drinking age laws in all 50 states, plus BAC limits for under and over 21. A NYRA exclusive! Drinking Age History
This is the Legislative Analysis of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984. Read about just how the drinking age got raised to 21. Drunk Driving Study
This study shows that raising the drinking age had no effect on reducing drunk driving. In fact its possible it created more drunk driving. International Laws
This chart compares drinking ages from many countries in the world. One part of an expansive study comparing world alcohol policies. Support Our Troops, Lower the Drinking Age
We honor all our troops under 21, even if supporters of the drinking age do not. This lists the 175 dead in Iraq who were never regarded as equals.
Action NYRA on CNN
Read the transcript from a debate between NYRA and MADD on CNN Sunday. This debate was broadcast live nationwide on July 31, 2001. Drinking Age News
Keep up to date on developments in the movement to lower the drinking age, and of our opponents. Drinking Age Flyers
Read, download and distribute these NYRA Drinking Age Flyers.
Opposition MADD
MADD led the fight to raise the drinking age to 21, and has been the main opponent to lowering it. Center for Science in the Public Interest
CSPI is another opponent of lowering the drinking age, confronting NYRA in a debate on the issue in 2002.
Allies Missouri 18 to Drink
A petition campaign in Missouri to get lowering the drinking age on the ballot in the state. Choose Responsibility
Choose Responsibility works on stimulating a national discussion around lowering the drinking age to 18 and finding more reasonable methods for reducing the harm alcohol causes and encouraging responsibility.
Discussion Drinking Age Forum
Have something to say about the drinking age? Want to discuss and debate the issue with other NYRA members? Go check out the forum.
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