National Minimum Drinking Age Act

Lowering the drinking age makes a lot of sense if you think about it. If we did lower the drinking age it would have multiple benefits. Lowering the drinking age would not have hardly any bad effects on our country if we ended up doing it. The drinking age should be lowered from 21 because if you are allowed to fight for your country, you should be able to drink, if we don’t allow young people (specifically eighteen to twenty year olds) drink in licensed locations, they drink illegally, and…

Drinking, under the age of 21, is outlawed throughout the United States. In today’s society, teenagers use alcohol more than any other drug, including tobacco. Underage drinkers experience a wide range of alcohol-related health, social, criminal justice, and academic problems. Some problems include risky sexual behavior, may impair brain development, violence, lack of awareness, and emotional satisfaction. Young drinkers report a range of negative effects from alcohol, all of which can lead to…

Underage drinking is a very common problem. Underage drinking has been around for some time and parents are still debating whether or not they should let their kids drink or not. The answer is they shouldn’t. Many adults already let their kids drink in their home, but they don’t know the negative effects on underage drinking. From examining alcohol related accidents, and data from underage drinkers, it is clear that parents shouldn’t allow underage drinking at home. Accidents that result from…

drowning”( “Underaged-Drinking”).Newly legal adults hold an ample amount of accidents that happen already.Why would we accumulate the risk of accidents by depreciating the drinking age? In chance,there will inhabit a risk of exposing illegal habits to younger drinkers.The drinking age should not be lowered because of the negative effects to a person's lifestyle. Alcohol has negative effects on the still developing body and brain.After the research they concluded,”Drinking…

alcohol have higher GPAs than those who do. Furthermore, students that indulge in binge drinking experience deficit in their academic performance. Some scholar on educational research have proposed that excessive alcohol consumption among underage students should be included among factors such as sex, race, community of residence, and family background, that is responsible for negative academic performance. Binge drinking particularly affect the cognitive ability of individuals thereby limiting…

Underage drinking can facilitate poor judgment that poses countless health and safety risks including drinking and driving, violent behavior, and unwarranted or unprotected sexual activity; consequences may lead to disciplinary actions performed by the school or even with the law. Data concluded from a 2003 case study included in Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility, a book which details the developmental and environmental factors concerning groups of adolescents in relation…

Allowing Adults to Act Like Adults. Of the 190 other countries in this world, 61% have a legal drinking age of 18. This is the age that many teenagers get a first job, a first car, and try new things for the first time. Although these young adults can have almost unlimited responsibility, drinking is one thing they cannot do. If the United States were to lower the drinking age, it would allow for new opportunities to make everybody’s life easier. Lowering the drinking age to 18 would give young…

Raising Drinking Age Have you ever thought what the world would be like if the drinking age was raised to 25? For me, I know it would be a great thing to do. People who are alcoholics probably won’t be happy but it isn’t really about them but it’s more about the safety of this world. According to a recent report, 63% of people that are aged around 18-24 say the drink to get drunk and 35% say that the aren’t able to stop drinking once they have started. One reason to raise the drinking age…

passage raises many concerns. Some argue that the minimum driving age should be raised from sixteen to eighteen; others argue the opposite. I believe, however, that the driving age should not be raised from sixteen to eighteen. Many argue that raising the driving age from sixteen to eighteen will reduce the number of serious or fatal road accidents that occur in the United States; however, this may not necessarily be true. Raising the driving age won't necessarily prevent teen driver crashes…

What is the true age of responsibility? This question is addressed by Alan Greenblatt in his article “The Age of Responsibility”(2009), where as a political author he suggests that the age requirement system is outdated. He does this by giving various facts on informative statements on laws regarding age. Through Greenblatt's persuasive statements he supports my argument that there are some restrictions which I do agree need to be changed, but there is still few that are fine the way they. The…