[Vision2020] Booze and Ballots

[Tom Hansen]

Rodna (my wife) attended UI back in '66/'67/'68, back when the drinking
age was 18, the voting age was 21, cannabis was the recreational drug of
choice, and UI's student body was right around 6,000.  You couldn't drink
in the Borah Auditorium, but you could certainly light up (legal or
otherwise).

College students used to have regular kegger parties out at the Spring
Valley Reservoir.  UI made Playboy's "Top Party Schools" list regularly. 
Moscow cops usually met their DUI quota (if there was such a thing back
then) by simply patrolling Highway 8 between Moscow and the Washington
stae line at 2 in the morning.  Pullman cops generally exceeded their
under-age DUI quota (again . . . if there was such a thing back then) by
patrolling the same highway from the state line to Pullman at 2 in the
morning.

Generally, the feds provided funds to state governments to maintain US
highways within their state IF certain requirements were met.  One of
these requirements was to raise the legal drinking age to 21.  For a
number of years Idaho refused, but eventually joined in.

Seeya at Farmers' Market, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho



> The whole reason they can get away with restricting 18-21 year-olds
> from drinking is they don't vote.
>
> Sent from my iPhone

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