We Can Lay Down Our Lives, but Can’t Pick Up a Drink Drinking is a big part of our society. We drink on holidays. We have big bonfires. We have alcohol. The drinking age should be set to eighteen. Eighteen year olds are considered adults and are allowed to make adult decisions but can not legally drink at all. What sense does that make? Are twenty one year olds any more responsible than eighteen year olds? There are more news story about DWI with people of age, than those who are underage. Eighteen years old can buy and sell tobacco, vote for leaders for our country, buy cars, get loans, buy a house, sell alcohol, but cannot drink any. Why be allowed to act like an adult and have all the same opportunities as twenty one year olds but stopped from purchasing alcohol? If that is the case, eighteen year olds should not be considered adults if they are not given all the rights that other adults have. Eighteen year olds should be allowed to purchase and intake alcohol, just as twenty
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In Germany and Austria, teens are legally able to drink at sixteen. Even in Canada, the drinking age is set at eighteen. Why are foreign teens able to drink, but not us in the United States? Americans develop the same way as teens in other countries. Our brains and bodies mature and develop at the same rate. According to Dr. David J. Hanson in Pro/Con: Should Legal Drinking Age Be Lowered to 18, “There has been experiments on people of different cultures for many years. Greeks, Italians, people from Southern France, Portugal, and Spain all drink at young ages. So far there has been no proof of their alcohol intake hurting their intellectual or behavioral growth.” (par 10) There has been harm found. It is time for legislation to quit protecting us from alcohol and let us make that decision on our own. Foreign governments believes their citizens can handle it at much younger ages, surely we could handle it as
In Germany and Austria, teens are legally able to drink at sixteen. Even in Canada, the drinking age is set at eighteen. Why are foreign teens able to drink, but not us in the United States? Americans develop the same way as teens in other countries. Our brains and bodies mature and develop at the same rate. According to Dr. David J. Hanson in Pro/Con: Should Legal Drinking Age Be Lowered to 18, “There has been experiments on people of different cultures for many years. Greeks, Italians, people from Southern France, Portugal, and Spain all drink at young ages. So far there has been no proof of their alcohol intake hurting their intellectual or behavioral growth.” (par 10) There has been harm found. It is time for legislation to quit protecting us from alcohol and let us make that decision on our own. Foreign governments believes their citizens can handle it at much younger ages, surely we could handle it as