Why legal drinking age should be banned

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    has the lowest belt use in the country. For more than fifteen years, the safety board has recommended that states enforce seat belt laws. (HG.org Legal Recources) Despite it being the law, there are numerous individuals that refuse to wear their seatbelts. The simplest reason would be a short distance from one place to another. (HG.org Legal Resouces) Seat belts are effective. They are the number one defense against a crash or accident. Approximately nineteen percent of drivers…

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    Trying Teens As Adults

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    reason why i chose to make this my research paper because I think that typing up this paper will have people understand that trying teens as adults will teach them that breaking laws, and thinking that they are untouchable just because they are a minor should not make them untouchable. That is why teens think they can do whatever they want, but my opinion is that the age that should be tried as an adult is at the age…

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    a teenager should be able to consume alcoholic beverages in their household with parent consent. There is no harm when your parents are there to supervise you and make sure you don’t have to much. It also teaches kids how to drink responsibly. If your parents are there to supervise they can control how much alcohol you consume. So if you may go over the top on your drinking then your parents are there to stop you. Most parents won’t let you kid get drunk every weekend so there should be no…

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    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. In today’s culture when a kid turns eighteen they are expected to…

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    Marijuana Debate Essay

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    This paper explains the debate of legalizing marijuana use for those in the age of adulthood. It uses the aging that law governs as adult: eighteen (18), twenty-one (21), and twenty-five (25). It will discuss the adaptive changes in our brain and what constitutes as safe use from a legal perspective in these age ranges. States and countries that have legalized along with the defining factors of use will be discussed. The methods used were educational research through the Diagnostic and…

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    you can drink now or you’re legal to drink alcohol. In US the legal drinking age in all 50 states is 21 years of age. The problem of underage drinking has become a major problem in Unite States, especially in school and colleges. Some of the people drink and drive which cause a deadly accident and usually people died. There have been debates going on that discuss if the legal drinking age should be lowered or should it stay the same. I believe that the drinking age should not be lowered and…

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    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…

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    of another college student dying due to excessive use of alcohol? More than 1800 students die each year due to alcohol related causes. After researching this topic, I have come to the conclusion that the drinking age being 21 years of age is dangerous. The legal age for drinking alcohol should be lowered to eighteen years old; As an eighteen year old, they are considered adults, they can serve in the army, and they can already use tobacco. II. First i'm going to talk about how eighteen year…

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    have a minimum legal drinking age of 21, the other three being Mongolia, Indonesia, and Peru. We [Affirm/Negate] the resolution Lower the Minimum Legal Drinking Age to 18 years of age We would like to present the following definitions: Drinking is defined to mean drinking alcohol MLDA is defined to mean The legal age in the U.S. that people are allowed to drink alcohol The 3 main contentions we believe affirm/negate this resolution are: The age of adulthood in the U.S. is 18,why should they…

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    The drinking age in the United States is twenty one, and is a topic of debate today. In 1984 Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act which made the national drinking age twenty one across the nation. Before Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, the drinking age varied throughout the states between eighteen and twenty one. This caused many states to change the age and become what it is now. Reagan signed the act for drinking age requirements to be twenty…

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