Drinking Age Debate

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
You can vote, gamble, drive, go off to war at age 18, but you can't legally have a drink in the U.S. 114 college presidents are trying to reopen the debate about the drinking age, and to explain both sides are Laura Dean-Mooney, President of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and John McCardell, founder of Choose Responsibility and former president of Middlebury College in Vermont.

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