EDITOR:
In your article on the juvenile party that was published on Nov. 3 you referred to a juvenile who had a ".25 blood alcohol content, three times the legal limit" and four juveniles that "were over the legal limit of .08."
This may lead some readers to believe that there is a legal limit for minors consuming alcohol. There is. That limit is zero.
The .08 limit, of course, only applies to adults consuming alcohol, and then only when they are driving a motor vehicle on a public street.
I know that your use of the .08 blood-alcohol standard is a handy way of measuring how intoxicated a juvenile is, but it implies that the same limit applies to them as it does to adults.
Jim Hill
Minden
