Lower The Drinking Age

Partying hard, car accidents, and expensive tickets – all of these have one thing in common: they are often associated with drunk driving. In most countries, even developed countries, people are able to drink at the age of eighteen. In some countries, about 61%, the drinking age is commonly eighteen or nineteen (Minimum Legal Drinking Age). In America, however, the national drinking age has recently been ruled as 21 (Griggs). The national drinking age should be overall lowered to eighteen because it will lessen the risk of accidents, discourage teenagers to rebel, and offer a better understanding of the effects of alcohol. How about facing the cold, hard facts: in America, every 120 seconds one person is harmed in an intoxicated driving collision (MADD - Drunk Driving Statistics). This is often due to the “forbidden fruit,” aspect of drinking to teenagers. Due to teen alcohol …show more content…
Often with alcohol abuse, the drinker can experience setbacks later in life due to the effects of abusing alcohol. If the drinker were educated and exposed earlier in life, it would be unlikely that they would be having the symptoms of psych disorders. Alcohol isn’t toxic at regular doses, it shouldn’t physically hurt or injure any eighteen year old who drinks responsibly. Lowering the drinking age is taking away the risk factor that’s associated with drinking, eventually taking away much of the alcohol-related incidents. This is why we need to enact a law that lowers the drinking age from twenty one, to eighteen. It’s easy to be distracted by the fact that eighteen year old brains are still developing, but if they are given the chance to experience alcohol it’s unlikely they’d do it later in life. The national drinking age needs to be set at eighteen because it will cut the alcohol-related driving accidents down, take away the ‘ahh’ factor of drinking, and allow people to become more educated about