Why legal drinking age should be banned

today is whether the drinking age should be lowered from 21 to 18. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed by Congress back in 1984 that required states to raise the ability to possess and purchase alcohol from age 18 to age 21. The question is whether or not Congress made a mistake by passing this Act. Although there are some excellent points arguing against a lower drinking age, there are far more reasons to allow 18-year-olds to legally purchase alcohol. At the age of 18,…

The voting age in the United States is eighteen years old. Most of the countries in this world have a voting age established. Surprisingly, the youngest voting age is sixteen, and the oldest minimum age is twenty-one. The only known maximum voting age is in the Holy See, when electing a new pope is under the age of eighty. I believe that the United States should change the voting age to twenty-one years old, due to the fact that most teens are immature, are not very knowledgeable, and are easily…

percent of high school kids consume alcohol at one point in their high school career, according to the U.S Department of Justice. Consumption of alcohol through minors with a parent's consent should be legalized in the United States. I believe learning how to drink responsibly should be taught at a young age, for example; college, you always hear about how much fun people have and about all the ragers friends and family attend or attended when they were in college. They go off the deep end…

driving crash. From the ages of sixteen through nineteen the risk of vehicle crashes is substantially higher. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among fifteen to twenty year olds, according to the National Center for health Statistics. You are at risk every time you step into a vehicle that risk automatically doubles when you decide to drive under the influence, distracted by texting while driving, or just going way above the posted speed limit. Drinking while driving is a…

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…

believe that the drinking age should be lowered to 18, and here are my reasons: I believe that if you are able to die for country at the age of eighteen that you should be able to drink at the age of eighteen. There would be a lot more drunk drivers, but that is why responsibility needs to be taught, so that there could be less drunk drivers in the future. My last reason is that at the age of eighteen we are basically adults. My first reason is that if you can die for your country at the age of…

Should the drinking age be lowered? I believe if we are adults then we can drink. If we can go into the military at 18 why not be able to drink. Sometimes bad things happen if you go to college with never drinking before. Most parents think we shouldn’t drink because we can get drunk and do stupid things, why not let us make choice. I am old enough to make my own choices I’m 18. So I’m an adult I believe that drinking age should be lowered because if we are considered an adult then we should be…

Currently the legal drinking age in the United States is 21 which was increased from the age of 18. On July 17, 1984 President Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. This law ordered states to increase the legal age but each state was free to say no. If they didn’t increase the age limit they would lose 10% of its federal funding for highway public transportation. There were several states that initially declined but by 1988 every state passed the law to increase the…

fifty states to raise their legal drinking age to twenty-one or the budget will be cut 10% of highway money. Since the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1987 the act has saved 17,000 lives since 1988. The group name CR (Choose Responsibility) are a nonprofit group founded by McCardell, whose main goal is to lower the drinking age to eighteen. McCardell has the assumption that excessive and reckless alcohol consumption from teens are the effects of a higher drinking age.MADD on other hand has…

they should be able to drink (Wechsler & Nelson, 2010). Over the next decade, drinking, alcohol sales, and the number of car accidents involving alcohol increased exponentially for young adults aged 18 to 20 years (Wechsler & Nelson, 2010). In response to the “unintended health consequence” (Wechsler & Nelson, 2010, p. 986) of a lower drinking age, some states opted to restore the minimum legal drinking age (MDLA) back up to 21. In 1984, President Ronald Regan, in an effort to make the…