The existing coordination, which prohibits alcohol to adolescents in the United States under 21, is extensively violated, with devastating penalties. Educating the public to consume liquor conscientiously prior to turning 21 would extremely improve the public 's wellbeing. At the moment, high school and college kids observe hazardous binge drinking as a rite of passage. The present law, approved within all 50 states in the 1980s, was proposed to reduce the amount of traffic accidents and deaths caused by immature intoxicated drivers. It has accomplished that, but a stronger seatbelt and D.U.I. regulations have contributed to the diminish, too. Boosting the legal age has not abridged drinking, it has purely galvanized it to go secretive
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As a teen I have evidence that all of this actually happens not only in college but in high school as well. There are a lot of reasons that are composed to why the legal age should be reduced to eighteen; the most apparent motive is too many people are ingesting liquor prior to turning twenty-one anyway. Liquor stores, bars, and clubs all desire to make funds and if they are able to get away with selling to juvenile teens, then they will. The drinking age is arbitrary, why twenty one and not twenty or twenty four, how does turning twenty one make anyone more responsible? For the most purposes today, we treat eighteen year olds as adults. They are allowed to do almost everything that everyone over the age of twenty one is allowed to except for drink, the judicial system believes that twenty one is when you become "responsible" enough to consume alcohol, but Italy believes that is sixteen and has less alcohol related deaths than our country for many years. The United States is one out of five countries that had a legal age limit of twenty one. In many European countries have alcohol apart of their culture for holidays and special occasions. The majority of people in these countries are very responsible with alcohol and I believe it has to do with their childhood, what their parents educated them about drinking and …show more content…
Lowering the drinking age from twenty one to eighteen would be an valuable and positive step in shifting the binge-drinking traditions in this country, encouraging the secure and pleasurable action of drinking alcohol, and permitting individuals of legal maturity the chance to completely and dependably make fully developed judgment calls. Decreasing the drinking age to eighteen will eradicate the excitement of violating the law for eighteen to twenty year olds. The thought of being seditious and breaking the law at the same time as having excitement and not damaging others in the development is an appealing and stimulating idea for numerous underage college students. With drinking being prohibited for those younger than twenty one and with the danger of “getting caught” always current and motivating, drinking tends to become a more cautious act with it taking place in people’s dorm rooms, basements, etc. It is in these circumstances where drinking becomes the most treacherous, where pregaming, taking multiple shots in a row, and attempting to get as drunk as quickly and proficiently encourages binge drinking. If the drinking age were to be lowered to eighteen, there would no longer be the amount of excitement that we usually have because it would not be
As a teen I have evidence that all of this actually happens not only in college but in high school as well. There are a lot of reasons that are composed to why the legal age should be reduced to eighteen; the most apparent motive is too many people are ingesting liquor prior to turning twenty-one anyway. Liquor stores, bars, and clubs all desire to make funds and if they are able to get away with selling to juvenile teens, then they will. The drinking age is arbitrary, why twenty one and not twenty or twenty four, how does turning twenty one make anyone more responsible? For the most purposes today, we treat eighteen year olds as adults. They are allowed to do almost everything that everyone over the age of twenty one is allowed to except for drink, the judicial system believes that twenty one is when you become "responsible" enough to consume alcohol, but Italy believes that is sixteen and has less alcohol related deaths than our country for many years. The United States is one out of five countries that had a legal age limit of twenty one. In many European countries have alcohol apart of their culture for holidays and special occasions. The majority of people in these countries are very responsible with alcohol and I believe it has to do with their childhood, what their parents educated them about drinking and …show more content…
Lowering the drinking age from twenty one to eighteen would be an valuable and positive step in shifting the binge-drinking traditions in this country, encouraging the secure and pleasurable action of drinking alcohol, and permitting individuals of legal maturity the chance to completely and dependably make fully developed judgment calls. Decreasing the drinking age to eighteen will eradicate the excitement of violating the law for eighteen to twenty year olds. The thought of being seditious and breaking the law at the same time as having excitement and not damaging others in the development is an appealing and stimulating idea for numerous underage college students. With drinking being prohibited for those younger than twenty one and with the danger of “getting caught” always current and motivating, drinking tends to become a more cautious act with it taking place in people’s dorm rooms, basements, etc. It is in these circumstances where drinking becomes the most treacherous, where pregaming, taking multiple shots in a row, and attempting to get as drunk as quickly and proficiently encourages binge drinking. If the drinking age were to be lowered to eighteen, there would no longer be the amount of excitement that we usually have because it would not be