Rose to Hy-Vee

Kudos to Hy-Vee Inc. for its support of the proposed keg registration legislation, their support will help further a movement that needs to taken seriously (Hy-Vee voices support for keg registration - 2/17/06). I don’t understand those in opposition of the legislation and their logic that the ruling wouldn’t help anything and simply move teens focus to large quantity packs and hard liquor or that there are already laws in place that make it illegal to provide alcohol to minors, so what’s the point? The point is that the law is not intended to restrict alcohol sales, but rather a tool to help investigators in the case that a keg is used for illegal purposes. The parallels to the new law on pseudoephedrine are uncanny. If its necessary that we pass tougher penalties on possession of high quantity packs of beer or hard liquor then so be it, but Iowa needs treat the issue of underage drinking with a little more sensitivity. If we truly care about the youth in Iowa then we need to stop being hypocritical and stop treating underage drinking as a right of passage.