October 9, 2008 11:47AM 

# Why Does the US Government Dictate the Drinking Age? 

By Cato Editors 

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Cato’s Caleb Brown [sat down](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=755) with John M. McCardell Jr., former president of Middlebury College and director of [Choose Responsibility](http://www.chooseresponsibility.org/home/), a non-profit group that supports changes that will allow 18–20 year olds to purchase and consume alcoholic beverages.

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