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  1. Great cartoon Neal. Project Extra Mile is a neo-prohibitionist movement funded by tax dollars that would like nothing more than for alcohol to be illegal in this country.
    They spend our money to find a bunch of high school outcasts to parade in front of the liquor commission and ask for these types of drinks to be taxed at higher levels. Let me guess, the extra money from this tax increase would go towards PEM’s budget? Come on! I would love to understand these kids’ motivations.
    Who would this legislation effect more? Adults or children? Adults for sure. If a kid wants to drink a hard lemonade they will only have to mix Smirnoff and Country Time.
    This is what anyone who enjoys to have a drink now and again are up against. People like Cole from the LJS story’s comment section:
    “The more restrictions we can put on alcohol, the happier I am. Even if it means stepping on free enterprise and your rights.”
    Now: flavored malt beverages. The future: ???
    Instead of tougher restrictions on these kids the emphasis should be on educating kids to be responsible drinkers when it is their time.
    Law enforcement can’t prevent underage drinking; instead it drives it into less socially responsible environments. The goal should be not to stop minors from drinking but to create a set of social norms that make drinking irresponsibly unacceptable and pounding that into teens’ heads.
    Your son or daughter will drink someday, whether you like it or not. Would you rather they learned how to drink from you or from some smashed senior holding a beerbong in a cornfield?

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