In that case, said Tom Cecial, I was a madman of my own accord when I volunteered to become your squire, and, of my own accord, I'll leave off being one and go home. View in context
The 1984 National Minimum Drinking Age Act, [23 U.S.C. Â§ 158], requires that States prohibit persons under 21 years of age from purchasing or publicly possessing alcoholic beverages as a condition of receiving State highway funds.
Pennsylvania is one of 11 states whose minimum drinking age has been 21 since the 1930s. New Jersey changed from age 18 to 19 in 1980 and then to age 21 in 1983. New York changed from age 18 to 19 in 1982 and to age 21 in 1985.alifornia, Oregon and Washington have had 21 year old minimum drinking ages since the 1930s. Alaska adopted an age 21 law in 1984 and Hawaii did so in 1986. Oregon was the third state in the nation, after Maryland and Arizona, to adopt a zero tolerance law.