Why Teens Experiments With Alcohol Should Be Allowed

“Why do teens experiment with alcohol despite all the potential negative outcomes?” This is the story about a beautiful and generous teenage girl named Molly, who had to grapple with this very question. She was an excellent student and very popular in high school. Molly always enjoyed coming home and eating dinner with her loving family, Molly was living the life of her dreams. Her idyllic life changed one day when she came across several known partiers that were talking to one of her friends behind the school. Molly was unaware that she was about to make the biggest decision of her life, but was quickly confronted with the choice of whether to drink or not when the group asked her to join them. Molly had many questions about underage drinking, but knew that it was bad for her body, illegal, and could result in a serious injury if she got in a car with this group. Molly stood alone as she struggled with this choice. Molly was experiencing first hand that experimentation with alcohol is …show more content…
She’d soon have no friends in high school except for those in the wrong crowd. Aggression and abuse towards family and friends could become a part of her life if she chose to drink alcohol. Molly knew that she must tell the partiers that she couldn’t keep her agreement to drink with them. Molly shared this decision with a friend in the group and found an ally to stand with her against underage drinking. Having an ally would make resisting peer pressure much easier for both of them. Knowing that she didn’t stand alone comforted Molly. Molly and her friend decided to cooperate with handling the peer pressure, and to spread the word regarding the consequences of alcohol use and abuse. This cooperation resulted in a plan to confront the partiers the next day as well as a way to increase student body knowledge of the consequences of underage drinking. The next day, they put their plan into