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Presidents of 100 prominent colleges are behind a new effort to have the drinking age lowered from 21 to 18. The Presidents of Duke, Dartmouth, Ohio State, Syracuse, Tufts and Colgate are included among the group who claim that drinking earlier in life prevents college students from feeling like they need to drink way too much all the time, according to the Associated Press. Big Think asked Garrett Oliver, Brewmaster of the Brooklyn Brewery what he thought about America’s stupid laws, which allows kids to fight and be killed in war before they can shoot a Jager bomb. He explains that Europe has a much for civilized relationship with alcohol.