More Evidence That The Land Of The Free Was Only Marketing

"In every state of the union, the drinking age is twenty-one, but not exactly because of any federal law that mandates such age. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 (H.R.4616, P.L. 98-363) mandated that the states raise their drinking ages to twenty-one or their federal highway funding would be cut by 10 percent beginning in fiscal year 1988. All of the states compiled. The United States is one of only three developed countries in the world with a nationwide drinking age over eighteen."