Many people, mostly teenagers, believe that the legal drinking age should be lowered to sixteen years, instead of nineteen. However, I disagree. The benefits of this action are few and far between, and the consequences are too heavy to ignore. Lowering the legal drinking age may promote binge drinking in teenagers, which will induce horrible consequences in the teenagers of our generation and possibly even the generations after. Young adults would be influenced into drinking while driving because they don’t know any better. Lastly, it could affect brain development, and a student’s performance in school will be severely impacted with alcohol introduced to the student’s lives.
Lowering the legal drinking age to sixteen will allow teenagers to …show more content…
However, drinking alcohol in abundance can severely impact the overall health of your brain for your entire life. It will also impact a student’s life at school; In academic and social ways. Teenagers are more impulsive because the pleasure center of the brain develops before the impulse control. Binge drinkers or heavy drinkers are eight times more likely to miss classes or fall behind in schoolwork, and people who have their first drink at the legal drinking age are up to six times less likely to have alcohol problems later on in life. Therefore, if the legal drinking age is lowered, a lot of young people are more likely to become addicted to alcohol, and there will be nothing we can do about it. On the social side of this situation, people still aren’t benefitting from the lowered legal drinking age. Some students will be excluded in friend groups or even bullied because they don’t drink alcohol. It is something seen even now, when the legal drinking age is nineteen. However, if they submit to peer pressure it might ruin their lives. Young people who drink are more likely to be the victim of violent crimes engage in unprotected and underage sex. They are also more likely to be involved in violent behaviours and develop alcohol-related problems later on in their
Lowering the legal drinking age to sixteen will allow teenagers to …show more content…
However, drinking alcohol in abundance can severely impact the overall health of your brain for your entire life. It will also impact a student’s life at school; In academic and social ways. Teenagers are more impulsive because the pleasure center of the brain develops before the impulse control. Binge drinkers or heavy drinkers are eight times more likely to miss classes or fall behind in schoolwork, and people who have their first drink at the legal drinking age are up to six times less likely to have alcohol problems later on in life. Therefore, if the legal drinking age is lowered, a lot of young people are more likely to become addicted to alcohol, and there will be nothing we can do about it. On the social side of this situation, people still aren’t benefitting from the lowered legal drinking age. Some students will be excluded in friend groups or even bullied because they don’t drink alcohol. It is something seen even now, when the legal drinking age is nineteen. However, if they submit to peer pressure it might ruin their lives. Young people who drink are more likely to be the victim of violent crimes engage in unprotected and underage sex. They are also more likely to be involved in violent behaviours and develop alcohol-related problems later on in their