National Minimum Drinking Age Act

Bibliography: Should the drinking age be lowered to 18? "Drinking While Young." State Legislatures 34.6 (2008): 11. Health Reference Center Academic. Web. 2 Nov. 2015. . This article, although short, contains very important information. Drinking under the age of 21 is obviously illegal, and as a result it leads teens to drink in private due to the fact that they are not allowed to drink publicly. The problem with this is that drinking in private often leads to heavy drinking, which has…

Should the legal drinking age be lowered? I don’t think it should. This has been an ongoing debate about the MLDA (minimum legal drinking age) that it should, and might, be lowered from 21 to 18 because, people at the age of 18 are considered adults. I think it should stay where it is at. Let’s look at all the points against and for the idea. Should the legal drinking age be lowered? I think not, my first piece of evidence is from procon.org, which states, “drinking should be similarly…

that at the age of eighteen anyone should have the right to drink, if they want to. Fulton addresses that at the age of eighteen in the United States you are able to vote, pay taxes, own a gun, go off to war, get married and become a legal parent, etc., but are not able to take a sip of a beer. The article is aimed at the people in the United States who believe the drinking age should not be lowered back to eighteen. He uses Europe as an example to show that having a low drinking age does not…

alcohol by this age. I believe that the age of illegibility to enter the armed forces nevertheless to enter combat is an extraordinarily fair age. The entrance age is adequately placed at eighteen years of age because by then hopefully you have matured enough to be ready for war. In my personal opinion the purchasing of any sort of nicotine should be a felony no matter the age. Since the purchasing of nicotine is legal at a certain age I presume that eighteen years of age is an acceptable age…

Was one of your family members affected by drugs or alcohol at a young age? I know mine have. People all over the world are affected or dying from alcohol the most killing drug out there. People seem to think of this drug as a normal thing now and it's harmless which is completely incorrect. Certain people seem to believe the opposite of this and think it should be raised. When people say the word college at least half of the people in the room think of parties because in your 3rd year of…

When you think about underage drinking, what do you see? Is the scene you see one of intoxication and violence? If so, you are not alone, but this does not have to be true. I believe that Responsible Underage drinking is something that can happen and if we lower the drinking age to 18, there will be more time to teach teens how to handle alcohol responsibly. This nation is entering a time of great change-maybe this law should change with it. In America, at the age of 18 you’re considered an…

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.”…

Currently the legal consumption of alcohol is the age 21 in the United States. The United States has one of the highest drinking ages in the world. For example, most European countries the legal limit are either 16 or 18 to first drink alcohol. There have been a lot of on going arguments, such as; that the brain is not fully developed until around the age of 21 and that is why we have our limit set that high. Changing the legal drinking age from 21 to 18 would have been effects to this country,…

morning of January 17, 1920, “ordinary events like taking a bottle of wine to a friend’s house, sipping a drink in public or selling a beer were now illegal from coast to coast, punishable by up to six months of jail time and a fine up to $1,000” (Blumenthal 59). Americans were still reluctant to give up their favorite drinks. It was legal to make cider and beer at home as long as no alcohol was added. Beer could even be sold if most of the alcohol if most of the alcohol content was first…

of these laws is being broken every day and its bringing a lot of problems for teenagers and their parents. This law is underage drinking and there are a lot of scary stories that we hear every day about teenagers getting injured and killed for drunk driving. Even when people know drinking will cause a lot of problems, there is still a big argument about the drinking age being lowered to 18 or stay at 21. Many activities…