Legal drinking age

In today’s world underage drinking is not an issue taken lightly by most people. It is a serious issue. No matter what you might think the actual drinking age should be, the fact of the matter is that you cannot drink alcohol if you are under twenty one. This is something that I obviously did not take very serious. The outcome of my choice wasn’t the end of the world, but I think it definitely changed the way I look at drinking underage. I may not have taken it is as serious as I should…

In Texas a federal law states the minimum drinking age is 21, however does that stop adolescent from consuming alcohol. “According to results from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health published in 2015, 34.7% of 15-year-olds reported having at least one drink in their lives. About 8.7 million people ages 12 to 20 (22.8%) reported drinking alcohol in the past month” (Underage drinking, 2015, P.1). These statistics prove that the federal law has not stopped adolescents from consuming alcohol…

Three beers. Four missed assignments. Five tardies. Six detentions. The effects of drinking on a teenager are obvious. The problem with teens drinking is that they are getting the alcohol one way or another. They are going to have access to it anyways, but more precautions should be taken to prevent this from happening so often. Some parents do not see the problem with their children or their children’s friends drinking. There are too many incidents that occur with the use of alcohol in teens.…

you to think of fun and not the repercussions of drinking the alcohol. It in no way would make “game day” any better. In fact, it would do the opposite. As Dunayer mentions, “Even in small amounts, alcohol dulls the brain, reducing muscle coordination and slowing reaction time. It also interferes with the ability to focus the eyes and adjust to a sudden change in brightness – such as the flash of a car’s headlights.”…

set an age for when people should start to be responsible? That is the controversial topic at hand. It is understandable that we must have laws and regulations to be“safe.” Whether that be setting an age for drinking, driving, voting etc. However, the government appears to have set these age marks in an arbitrary manner. There are many arguments supporting why the current laws regarding the age of responsibility are fine as are. However, the current system in place for determining the legal age…

that the legal enlisting age is only eighteen, yet the legal drinking age is twenty-one? In all fifty states of America a person is considered a legal adult at the of eighteen. Adults who are under the legal drinking age are more likely to consume more alcohol than those who are legally allowed to drink. While increasing the legal drinking age has decreased the amount of young drivers involved accidents, it has also increased the number of underage drinking in today’s young adults. The legal…

When it comes to the legal age of a person who wants to consume an alcoholic beverage, the age limit should be raised. There are many factors on why the age limit of drinking should be raised. For instance, when we think about death caused by drinking, we think about it happening to a person who is underage; but that is not the case. Most deaths that happen by someone drinking an alcoholic beverage comes from someone over the age limit of twenty-one years of age. “Studies show that 70% of…

Since raising the age of drinking in the mid-1980s to 21, many national debates and discussions have been taking place about lowering it again to age 18. Advocates who are for reducing the drinking age from 21 to 18 again usually use common weak arguments. Some experts even believe that not lowering the drinking age does not stop teens from drinking; it may increase the extreme drinking or would drive teens to still drink underground or behind closed doors. However, most of those arguments or…

the Minimum Drinking Age: A Four-State Study). The legal drinking age should be lowered to about 18 or young adults allowed to drink in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs and official school and university functions. Currently, too much time, effort, and money is being put into making sure that kids below 21 aren’t drinking and at the same time, a majority of adults are assuming that…

party. They get used to it and want more and more partying and binge drinking till it completely overtakes them and they always ant to party. A method to try and help their kid ends up destroying…