Hi All!
Speaking of "(Insert "violation of states' rights" diatribe here.)"
I'd love to get some opinions on this, especially from Matthew and all the Canandians on the board.
I live in San Diego, which is only a 20min drive to the Mexican border and a 5 min taxi ride to Revolucion Ave. in Tijuana.
Basically what happens is all the 18+ (and some as young as 13) go to TJ and get bombed out of their mind because the drinking age is 18 in Mexico. They all then come back across the border barely able to walk. Many can't even crawl.
So then the SDPD is stuck with all of these underage drunks who also drunk drive.
The club owners (a surprising number of which are Americans) contribute to all this by plastering college AND HIGH SCHOOL campuses with flyers. Most of the bars are all you can drink. And on college night the cover is only THREE DOLLARS for girls and eight for guys!
So what does the San Diego City Council do to deal with all this? They reinforce police presence at the border. Arrest all the drunks as they come across and call the parents. AND HERE COMES THE DOOZY!
TRIES TO FORCE MEXICO TO UP THEIR DRINKING AGE!!!!
And the city doesn't understand why Mexico isn't going for this idea! Come On!
How would Cananda react to this? Should we make European countries conform to us too?
I admit that having the lower drinking age so close makes it really hard to convince our members that they shouldn't be drinking at their age. But that's our problem. Not Mexico's!
Sorry, I had to rant.