Legal drinking age

Alcohol is legal for everyone in every state who is twenty one or older. There are many different types of alcohol, depending on what you’re in the mood for. For example, there’s beer, vodka, scotch, whiskey, wine, tequila, bourbon ext… All of the alcoholic beverages you can purchase have a different taste, and a different method of making them. “Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, is an intoxicating ingredient found in beer, wine, and liquor. Alcohol is produced by the fermentation of yeast, sugars, and…

The drinking age has been a common topic of discussion for years now. Both sides have very valid arguments. That being if we should keep the drinking age in the United States at 21 or if we should lower it to 18. As I see it, I have no problem with how the drinking age is now, but I feel like the United States would work better with the age being lowered to 18. There are many reason why the drinking age was raised to 21. First of all, “the goal of the change in drinking age from 18-21…

Minors Drinking in Their Homes With Parental Consent The idea has been do not drink until the age of twenty-one, but why is twenty-one significant and special? Why should people under the legal age not be allowed to drink under parental supervision within their homes? The idea is that drinking under the legal age will cause harm to the body of the consumer or even cause the person to become an alcoholic before they enter into adulthood. There has been many different research studies trying…

There Should Be No Alcohol in The United States The United States is one of freedom country in the world. Alcohol is the most commonly used addictive substance in the United States it is legal and pervasive. Alcohol impacts strongly in the relationship between families and other social problems. Alcohol can have many effects on adults; it can also affect teenagers as well. Alcohol has a negative impact on youth. Besides the fact that alcohol influences murder, suicide. The American dreams is…

Lowering the Drinking Age The day kids turn 18 they are no longer kids, they are adults. As adults there are so many things you can do. From voting to buying a house, but there is one thing 18 year olds can’t do… drink. The three topics I will be talking about in this paper will be traffic related accidents, sexual dangers, and college campus dangers. There are many stories about teenagers drinking underage. Even if the drinking age dropped to eighteen from twenty-one do you think that…

Although this may seem as though it punishes all of the population for the mistakes of a smaller number of people, driving is a privilege, not a right, and people misuse this privilege. This would ensure drivers are not above the legal limit while driving, which would further reduce the number of drunk driving incidents. The installation fees of an ignition interlock range from $70 to $150 and monitoring and calibration fees range from $60 to $90 a month (10). These fees could be…

same age that people could exercise other adult-like responsibilities, such as voting. Between the early and late 1970’s 29 states lowered their drinking age to 18. In 1984 Congress passed the Uniform Drinking Age Act, this required states to have a MLDA of 21 in order to receive money to fix highways (Main 35). The governments wish for states to raise the drinking age was because of increased driving under the influence in young adults. Now in the 2000’s underage drinking, binge drinking, and…

Encyclopedia of Science, science research shows that people who have alcoholism in their family are four times more likely to start drinking or become an alcoholic. If a child has a parent who is an alcoholic, he or she has a higher chance of becoming an alcoholic as well (“Alcoholism” Sick) . Many alcoholics blame stress and their children as the reason for drinking. The parents who blame their kids also tend to abuse them (“Alcoholism”Sick). Generally the children who have been a victim of…

passing on because of the asinine crowd that assumes drinking and driving is an acceptable thing to do. This horrendous and selfish act is not only endangering the lives of the other citizens on the road, but the innocent lives of those who choose to drive sober. If the rate of drunk drinking continues to increase, so will the amount of accidents and fatalities. I think it is agreed by all parties that the life-threatening occurrence of drinking and driving is much to common. Two in three people…

Underage Drinking is when anyone under the minimum legal drinking age of 21 drinks alcohol. In most cases people abuse alcohol around freshman year of high school. Some people even drink at an earlier age with the permission of their parents. Young people usually drink because an older brother or sister is doing it so the pressure to fit in attracts them to start drinking. Underage drinking is a huge problem and I think it’s even a bigger problem here in Las Vegas because our city drives on…