This is the story of how the drinking age in the United States became 21. If you enjoyed this episode consider checking out the resources we used to make it:

1. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/19437/why-drinking-age-21
2. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/minimum-drinking-age-legal-21-america-history
3. https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0386-21-legal-drinking-age
4. https://drinkingage.procon.org/state-history-of-mlda-21/
5. https://www.boston.com/culture/health/2014/07/17/why-21-a-look-at-our-nations-drinking-age/
6. New Hampshire Public Radio https://www.nhpr.org/politics/2020-10-23/ask-civics-101-why-is-our-voting-age-18
7. NHTSA https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/810942
8. https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA67/AA67.htm
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_Act
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_driving_in_the_United_States
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._history_of_alcohol_minimum_purchase_age_by_state