Second Missouri Initiative to lower drinking age (2008)
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The Second Missouri Initiative to Lower Drinking Age an initiated state statute that would:
- lower the legal age to manufacture, sell, dispense, supply, purchase, possess and consume alcohol from twenty-one years of age to eighteen years of age
- revise related criminal penalties consistent with the lower legal age
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Proponents
- Mr. Michael Mikkelsen
It has been noted that drinking ages should be the right of the states to set-not federal issue. Other states running a similar initiaitve include: Kentucky, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Opposition
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is the leading opposition of this measure. "We welcome the attention to the drinking age," says MADD CEO Chuck Hurley. "The data is in fact overwhelming."[1]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says laws setting the drinking age at 21 have cut traffic fatalities involving drivers ages 18-20 by 13%.
Also, according to a federal mandate, 10% of of the states federal highway funds would be revoked if the drinking age is lowered.
Initiative stalled
Missouri 18 To Drink has concluded it can't collect the 100,000 signatures needed by May. The initiative is now aiming for the 2010 election, says organizer Michael Mikkelsen.
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See also
- Missouri 2008 Ballot Measures
- Missouri Initiative and Referendum Law
- Campaign finance requirements for Missouri ballot measures
- Missouri signature requirements
- Petition drive deadlines in 2008
