Opinion on "binge drinking"

[darklordoftech]

Sometimes politicians, the media, and schools talk about "binge drinking." Is it a legitimate issue or is it prohibition reborn?

[darklordoftech]

Sometimes politicians, the media, and schools talk about "binge drinking." Is it a legitimate issue or is it prohibition reborn?

Do you think this is 1994?

What does 1994 have to do with alcohol?

[darklordoftech]

Sometimes politicians, the media, and schools talk about "binge drinking." Is it a legitimate issue or is it prohibition reborn?

Do you think this is 1994?

What does 1994 have to do with alcohol?

You seem to think it's the Clinton Era and Tipper Gote is fighting to slap labels on CD's.

Until the late 00s, most of Europe had a drinking age of 16. In 2007, Dubya's Surgeon General published a report on "binge drinking" and then Europe's attitudes towards alcohol started "Americanizing".

[darklordoftech]

http://theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/13/france-teenage-drinkers-alcohol

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/07/increase_in_legal_drinking_age/

[darklordoftech]

http://www.thelocal.es/20140403/raising-spains-drinking-age-to-21-is-absurd

[darklordoftech]

http://theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/13/france-teenage-drinkers-alcohol

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/07/increase_in_legal_drinking_age/

So they raise the drinking age to 18, like in most European countries... how exactly is that "Americanization" from a random report that nobody in America read, let alone Europe?

I can't help but get bitter when people insist that Europe's drinking laws haven't changed whatsoever.

[darklordoftech]

If alcohol were to completely go away, 90% of society's problems would be instantly cured.  In an ideal world, alcohol should be illegal, but I think that we would have had to do that in the 1700s or 1800s and that the negative externalities of doing that today would outweigh the benefits.

Trump doesn't drink, and yet he is nothing but problems which have now found a world stage to spread to.

I always found it strange that Trump is a teetotaler and Cruz once was ticketed for underage drinking. One would expect the opposite from how they talk.