Legal drinking age

America’s Legal Drinking Age Should be Held at Age Twenty-one In 1984, Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which required all US states to raise their ages for purchase and possession of alcohol to the age of 21. Although the legal drinking age has been debated upon, over the years it has been greatly proven that the age should not be lowered. Since the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was put into play in 1984, the legal drinking age in the United States has been the age of…

Evidently, underage drinking has become an epidemic throughout the world. Alcohol is the drug of choice among America's adolescents, used by more young people than cigarette or illicit drugs. The increase in the minimum legal drinking age has saved 23,733 lives in the United States this year. There are some reasons why the legal drinking age should not be lowered to 18. For example car accidents and binge alcohol are drastic ways to die. Many people want to lower the legal drinking age because…

have been several instances in across the U.S. where the police fail to punish minors for drinking under the age. When the police show up at a party where teens are getting drunk they have been known to respond to the situation by taking the alcohol and making their parents pick them up. Nothing goes on the person who provides the alcohol or the minor’s record; both groups are simply given a warning. The drinking law is a commonly ignored law by young adults, parents, and even law enforcement.…

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…

Writing 25 Sept. 2015 Drinking Ages The second ranked most watched sport in the United States was started thanks to young bootleggers carrying illegal moonshine. Yes, NASCAR was born from families like the Hatfield and McCoy’s to the Dukes of Hazard, who modified their carts or cars to outwit and outrun the police. In most states the legal purchasing/drinking age in the US has been twenty-one ever since the ratification of the twenty-first amendment. The legal drinking age should be lowered to…

The current drinking age in the US which is twenty one is a proper fit to the current US society. President Reagan addressed all the issues in the society regarding the use of alcohol when he formulated the “National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984” and he was very right. The act was crafted keeping in mind that the human brain is not fully developed until the age of twenty one. The use of alcohol at a lower age could be detrimental to one’s life and the path one chooses would be enough to ruin…

project on the legal drinking age in the United States and whether it should be lowered or stay the same. I and several of my friends who are currently under the age of 21 want it to be dropped to 18. They feel if they are considered old enough to be able to leave home to go to college, join the military, move into their own house, and pay their own bills by the government’s standards then they should have the right to decide and control what they put into their bodies. The legal drinking age…

idea that the drinking age should be lowered to 18 is a foolish statement. The drinking age was 18 at one time, but was changed in 1984 for the greater good in the 1984 National Minimum Age Drinking Act. (APIS) I believe the national drinking age should stay the same because the brain doesn’t fully develop by age 18, 18 year olds still hang out with enough minors, and if you’re going to drink for an appropriate reason, most states allow underage drinking anyways. Lowing the drinking age would…

On July 17, 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which he quoted, “The bill we 're gathered to sign today reflects the will of the American people. It takes the battle to stop drunk driving one crucial step further”. Since 1984 the minimum legal drinking is an on going debate for many U.S. citizens. According to Andrew Stuttaford, he believes that if eighteen year old are allowed to vote, marry, join the military and drive why are they not allowed to drink.…

changed the drinking age from 21 to 18. Since the early 2000’s, there has been an increase of alcohol-fuelled violence, causing communities to become concerned. This briefing note has been created as requested from the premier to see the viable options to reduce alcohol-fuelled violence. The proposed changes target young adults, as statistics show individuals aged between 15-24 were accountable for 52% of all alcohol related injuries in 2007. It is hypothesised that changing the drinking age…