Talk:Legal drinking age/@comment-86.131.17.246-20150819123357/@comment-26279493-20150819185806

The US still allows underage consumption in some States. In my State, children are allowed to consume alcohol at home under their parent's supervision. Prior to the Reagan revolution, each State established it's own drinking age. At one time, in my youth, at least one State had no established drinking age. Drug laws were also forced onto the States by a later Conservative Administration, Bush Sr., as I recall. I'll have to research it to be sure of the causality, but as I recall, the Conservative prohibition came about at the same time that the use of sacremental wine disappeared.