Legal drinking age

Coors Urges lower drinking age Page 2) 10.4 million kids reported drinking last year so obviously this law is not working. The average teen begins drinking at 14, seven years before they can legally drink. (Dr. Ruth Enys The drinking age should be lowered Page 1) Since the drinking age was raised teens have tended to drink in more of an abusive manor. (Author unknown Lowering the drinking age Page 1) More young people tend to drink abusively when they do consume alcohol since the age was…

Drinking culture, both in the United States and China, has transformed over generations of time. Dating back to the prohibition, alcohol consumption has played a big role socially in American history. In the United States- due to advertising, availability, and the social norm of drinking- there is a growth in alcohol related problems. The social norm of binge drinking, a major shift in the drinking culture, is geared towards groups and seen largely in college age students. “In the college…

The minimum legal age for taking alcoholic drinks in the USA is 21 and it has been so since 1984. There were interventions twenty-five years ago, and since then many groups have been trying without success to reduce the age limit for the consumption of alcohol. An initiative known as Amethyst Initiative was signed in the year 2008 by a group of college presidents who were not satisfied with the minimum legal age (Williams et al. 170). There was public awareness conducted to educate the society…

Congress enacted a withhold of funds to any state that did not raise their legal drinking age to 21 years of age. Many states, who didn't already have a 21-year-old minimun drinking age, fell in suit. Except for South Dakota, who had a 19-year-old minimun drinking age, who challenged the law. They believed that Congress was violating the Twenty-first Amendment by taking away states decision for their minimun drinking age. This case brings the issue of federalism into play by questioning who has…

The MLDA (minimum legal drinking age) has been a topic that has been debated for quite some time now and probably will continue to be debated in future years. Some people think the drinking age should be lowered while others think it should remain at twenty-one years old. At the age of eighteen when an adolescent legally becomes an adult, and with this comes many responsibilities such as enlisting in the military and the privilege to serve on a jury. Reasons like these are why people think one…

from peers of a higher age, or willing guardians. This also leads to the alcohol being consumed behind closed doors, under parental supervision, which in some states is legal. In Virginia, according to § 4.1-200, Exemptions from Licensure, “Any person who keeps and possesses lawfully acquired alcoholic beverages…

range of chronic health problems (Wade and Peralin 2005). It can also lead to traffic crashes, crime, unintentional injury, increased risk for diseases, risky sexual behavior, homicide, and suicide (Komro et al. 2007). Alcohol consumption at an early age can also have damaging effects on brain development. (Komro et al.…

person who has drank alcohol under the legal age of 21. Some underage people drink to be cool at a party while others drink because they want to forget something. Others drink because they want to be a rebel and drink underage. Many people drink underage and they all have a reason why they do it. The drinking age should be lowered to 19 because there is research that proves that lowering it would be helpful to many different groups of people. The drinking age should be lowered to 19 because if…

accepted thing at party’s or hanging with friends. Keeping the drinking age at twenty-one would be a smart thing to do because, If we were to lower the drinking age to eighteen we would be handing over more mature consequences that at their age, they could not comprehend, while if we were to raise the drinking age to twenty-five health problems would go down, but we would still have the problem of underage drinking. In the article “Keep Drinking Age at Twenty-One: Teens Aren’t Mature Enough To…

I really think the drinking age should be lowered to the age of eighteen. If you think about it, it actually makes a lot of sense. For three main reasons. One, teenagers are going to drink alcohol anyway so we might as well legalize it. Two, people are allowed to vote and fight for our country in the military yet they aren 't allowed to even drink alcohol. So they can go overseas and fight ISIS but wouldn 't be allowed to drink a beer while doing it. Finally, with all the time the police spend…