There are many drinking laws to go with underage drinking. A person must be 21 years old to buy or consume alcohol. ... Current Utah law sets a limit of 3.2 percent alcohol by weight (4 percent by volume) in beer sold at grocery and convenience stores and at establishments operating under a "beer only" type license, such as taverns, beer bars and some restaurants.A conviction for violating a Utah’s minor in possession law is a misdemeanor. A violator’s driver’s license will be suspended for one year or two years if it’s their second offense.
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Developing brain damage and becoming addicted to alcohol is too big of a risk to take to just have a little fun. You are toying with your life and putting it at risk …show more content…
Alcohol damages the learning parts of your brain along with the decision making and your judging centers. As stated by parentsempowered.com teens who drink under the age of 21 are more likley to develope brain damage when they are older, becasue there brians havent yet fully developed and it could cause permenant damage the hippocampus and the cerebral frontal cortex. This, proving the damage and the risks of underage drinking shows that we need to keep the drinking laws the same and show more teens what underage drinking does.Underage drinking causes damage to teens in many different way. With the facts of teens developing brain cancer early, and having a risk of 40% being addicted to alcohol is the reason we have and should keep our drinking laws in tact.
Teenagers who drink under the age of 21 have a 40% chance of becoming addicted to alcohol. Parentsempowered.org says a kid who drinks before the age of 15 has a 55% chance of becoming alcohol dependent. A person who waits until they are 21 only has a 7% chance of becoming alcohol dependent. No one is immune to developing a problem. Underage drinking is a serious public health problem in the United States. Alcohol is the most widely used substance of abuse among America’s youth, and drinking by young people poses enormous health and safety