July 12, 2008
Suggested Law Would Allow Underage Military to Drink Alcohol
Columbia, S.C. A South Carolina lawgiver says minor military men and adult females should be permitted to imbibe alcohol.
Representative Fletcher Smith has patronised legislation that would permit alcohol purchases if service fellow members younger than 21 show a military designation card to a mixologist or store clerk.
State jurisprudence prohibits the sales event or ownership of alcoholic drinkables by anyone under 21.
Ever the jurisprudence would cost South Carolina to misplace federal main road money.
South Carolina embossed the imbibition age to 21 from 18 to follow with federal jurisprudence in 1984.
Refuge advocates fight back the Greenville Democrat’s measure. They say plenty of studies show that affording alcohol to citizenry younger than 21 does non make living safer for the military, nor for others on the nation’s main roads.