I find it outrageously dangerous that college kids get wasted at parties. I started drinking within the family (the safest route to responsible alcohol consumption) at age 3 - just homemade wine at first. I have never ever been drunk in my life (43 now) and I was responsible in college; never drank too much. But by the time I entered college, I had had 15 years of very moderate, positive, and supervised family drinking experience (drinking alcohol with food, with non-alcoholic beverages, in the circle of the extended family, and over an extended period of time - you get the picture). That modern American parents send their kids off to colleges without knowing FOR SURE that the kids can handle alcohol responsibly... Russian roulette.

Plus, all this criminalization leads to alcohol's being attractive as a forbidden fruit and as a rite of passage. I think that partially explains drinking binges among colleges students.

But this is tangential to the OP's Q.