Drinking

fifty states to raise their legal drinking age to twenty-one or the budget will be cut 10% of highway money. Since the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1987 the act has saved 17,000 lives since 1988. The group name CR (Choose Responsibility) are a nonprofit group founded by McCardell, whose main goal is to lower the drinking age to eighteen. McCardell has the assumption that excessive and reckless alcohol consumption from teens are the effects of a higher drinking age.MADD on other hand has…

Underage drinking has always been a big argument on how the age limit should be lowered from 21 to 18. In 1919 the 18th amendment prohibited the sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Just like today, a lot of people disobeyed the fact that you can’t drink until you’re 21. With that, it made the government want to change the law. In 1933 they changed the 18 amendment to the 21st amendment. The whole point of it was not to get rid of alcohol from everyone but that only adults could use…

now or you’re legal to drink alcohol. In US the legal drinking age in all 50 states is 21 years of age. The problem of underage drinking has become a major problem in Unite States, especially in school and colleges. Some of the people drink and drive which cause a deadly accident and usually people died. There have been debates going on that discuss if the legal drinking age should be lowered or should it stay the same. I believe that the drinking age should not be lowered and leave it as it is…

occurred with underage drinking. The number of teens who have been drinking has increased dramatically in the past couple years. This is a huge problem because drinking can cause health risks and can cause teens to get into deadly situations. Underage drinking usually happens when teens are unsupervised, under peer pressure,or even when parents let their children. These are just some reasons why underage drinking is becoming a problem. One of my solutions to stop underage drinking is to educate…

Drinking Age I believe that the drinking age of twenty one is appropriate and should remain as is, for these reasons. At that age, the drinker is more responsible and is less likely to be reckless than an underage drinker, their brain is still developing and consuming alcohol at a young age can be a serious problem, and even though eighteen year olds have the right to vote, get married and serve in the military, they are not able to drink due to military standards. When it comes to drinking,…

The National Minimum Drinking Age Act in 1984 set the drinking age in the US to 21 and there has been an intense debate ever since of whether or not the age a person is allowed to drink should be changed back to the age of 18. On one hand, you have some people who say the drinking age should not be lowered because it would increase drunk driving and alcoholism. On the other hand, there are people who question why we can vote, get married, join the military, buy guns, and serve on juries at the…

Drinking may not be the flashiest activity to some, but it is often seen as a way to “prove” your matureness and/or you being an adult. However, the United States government recognizes that a person becomes an adult at the age of eighteen. Enabling those of that age to vote, buy lottery tickets, buy cigarettes, sign up for the military, gamble, buy a car, take out a loan, rent an apartment, pay their own taxes, be recognized as independent from their parents, and so on. On the contrary, alcohol…

There is one topic that has been discussed and argued for over a hundred years. The topic that has caused so much controversy is the U.S. drinking age. The drinking age in the U.S. has been changed numerous times since it was put into action. The U.S. use to not have any drinking age and it was just up to the parent’s discretion if their child was allowed to drink or not, but after a while people started getting concerned with the effects alcohol had on people and then the era of…

determine the minimum drinking age that they thought was most appropriate. Most states decided on 21 years old at the minimum legal drinking age. In 1971, most states lowered the drinking age to 18 because the voting age was lowered to 18 also. The Enactment of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 raised the minimum legal drinking age was back to 21 years old (“Drinking age,” 2015, p. 1). Many believed that establishing the minimum age at 21 would prevent underage drinking, risky and…

Of the 190 other countries in this world, 61% have a legal drinking age of 18. This is the age that many teenagers get a first job, a first car, and try new things for the first time. Although these young adults can have almost unlimited responsibility, drinking is one thing they cannot do. If the United States were to lower the drinking age, it would allow for new opportunities to make everybody’s life easier. Lowering the drinking age to 18 would give young adults the chance to feel like they…