Since 1984 the federal government has ordered the fifty states to raise their legal drinking age to twenty-one or the budget will be cut 10% of highway money. Since the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1987 the act has saved 17,000 lives since 1988. The group name CR (Choose Responsibility) are a nonprofit group founded by McCardell, whose main goal is to lower the drinking age to eighteen. McCardell has the assumption that excessive and reckless alcohol consumption from teens are the effects of a higher drinking age.MADD on other hand has taken the toll that the MLDA has helped many teens today with the drinking age being 21.The drinking age shouldn’t be considered to be lowered to 18 years old, the drinking age should stay at 21 years old because there are disadvantages with it being 18.
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Also vulnerability to addiction, memory loss, violence, depression and so on. Since the MLDA has risen from 18 to 21 the National Highway Traffic Administration has estimated that 60% of traffic fatalities were among drunk teen drivers in the 1970s, but in the 2000s the fatalities has dropped to 37% from the results of the MLDA. The american public has supported the drinking age for so long that the Gallop 2007 poll has found over 70% of Americans would oppose the law that lowers the drinking age to 18. There are studies showing that lowering the drinking age will invite more use of illicit drugs among our teenage population meaning there will be more drugs trafficking in the US. Newly- legal drinkers usually purchase beverages for underage peers which is call the trickle-down effect when the law is passed to legalized 18 year olds able to buy alcohol beverages is when alcohol will start sipping through our schools and into kids well under 18
Also vulnerability to addiction, memory loss, violence, depression and so on. Since the MLDA has risen from 18 to 21 the National Highway Traffic Administration has estimated that 60% of traffic fatalities were among drunk teen drivers in the 1970s, but in the 2000s the fatalities has dropped to 37% from the results of the MLDA. The american public has supported the drinking age for so long that the Gallop 2007 poll has found over 70% of Americans would oppose the law that lowers the drinking age to 18. There are studies showing that lowering the drinking age will invite more use of illicit drugs among our teenage population meaning there will be more drugs trafficking in the US. Newly- legal drinkers usually purchase beverages for underage peers which is call the trickle-down effect when the law is passed to legalized 18 year olds able to buy alcohol beverages is when alcohol will start sipping through our schools and into kids well under 18