Dropping The Legal Drinking Age

Dropping the legal drinking age. The legal Drinking age was once the age of eighteen, that is until the 1980s when the law was that the drinking age should be risen to twenty-one to diminish the amount of deaths caused by young drunk drivers. It has succeed but it has also driven it to unsupervised parties such as high school parties and fraternity and sorority parties where all age groups have access to alcohol. But in this day and age the amount of deaths cause by drunk driving is not mostly caused by underage people alone, it is caused by people above the age of twenty one who believe that they can handle their intake of alcoholic beverages. The age of legal drinking from twenty-one to eighteen seems reasonable because we are considered …show more content…
“A person 's brain does not stop developing until their early to mid-20s. During this period, alcohol negatively affects all parts of the brain, including cognitive and decision-making abilities as well as coordination and memory. Adolescent drinkers not only do worse academically but are also at greater risk for social problems like depression, violence, and suicidal thoughts. Lowering the drinking age would have dangerous long-term consequences: Early teen drinkers are not only more susceptible to alcoholism but to developing the disease earlier and more quickly than others” …show more content…
Eighteen year olds have the right to join the military and fight for their country then there should be no problem in dropping the legal drinking age. If you give them the rights to bear arms and the rights to marry at the age of eighteen why restrict them from consuming alcohol it is only fair they have the right to do that other stuff then they have the right to alcohol. That is like telling a person who is already legal to enter clubs, buy tobacco products, start a family, have a job, buy a car, even buy a house that they are incapable of drinking alcohol because they are not responsible enough to handle those dangers that go along with it until they are twenty-one. That is ridiculous. Why tell a person that they can do all that stuff but they cannot consume or even think of purchasing alcohol at the age of eighteen. Most eighteen years old in this day and age have their lives together and are doing better than most people over the age of twenty-one who still live at home with their parents and are not doing anything to support themselves or are even thinking about doing majority of the stuff that eighteen year olds can and have