Lowering the drinking age to 18 would be a “fatal mistake,” and university officials in Maryland should remove their names from a list that supports debating the idea, said Delegate William Bronrott, chairman of the House Special Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse.

“If you want more highway crashes, more death, more injuries, more alcohol abuse and addiction, and all that goes hand-in-hand with more addiction in our communities, then go ahead and lower the minimum drinking age to 18, because that’s what you’re going to get,” said Bronrott, a Montgomery County Democrat who helped pass a federal law aimed at keeping the drinking age at 21.

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