Should The United States Government Raising The Minimum Drinking Age?
Because The US government sought an answer to the ever increasing traffic deaths caused by the consumption of alcohol by young adults, a change in laws countrywide started a new dispute while trying to end another. There is speculation that the current minimum drinking age is not working, while in prior years, information suggests that past minimum drinking ages did not work either. Although there was a warranted change of laws in 1984 to raise the minimum drinking age in the United States, speculation that the new government ordinance was not the best choice is apparent.
The idea behind the national drinking age being set at 21 has a long history of faltering laws between states. The gray area of concern has been erased by the presence of …show more content…
The government adjusted the laws in order to find a solution to the ever increasing number of traffic deaths resulting because of alcohol intoxication of young adults. The weight of the change of laws barres on the states individually as a levee used to keep receiving government highway funding. Mothers Against Drunk Driving continues to weigh the overwhelming benefits and countless lives saved because of the new law in order to gain support and diminish the views of opposers. Likewise, The Amethyst Initiative is supporting the other end of the theory in order to gain support towards lowering the drinking age back to 18. They are using the power of many high ranking collegiate officials to cater to the younger crowd as well as the government. The young adults of today’s society themselves are the ones who see the effects first hand on their generation, and through time, are gaining the fight on both sides. The governments change in laws to raise the minimum drinking age in 1984 can be defended and seen as counterproductive. Only time will tell how this problem will resolve in the future, while the binge drinking epidemic that surrounds young adults today will continue, and has not yet officially been identified as being more dangerous than the traffic incidents that the change in laws had originally tried to
The idea behind the national drinking age being set at 21 has a long history of faltering laws between states. The gray area of concern has been erased by the presence of …show more content…
The government adjusted the laws in order to find a solution to the ever increasing number of traffic deaths resulting because of alcohol intoxication of young adults. The weight of the change of laws barres on the states individually as a levee used to keep receiving government highway funding. Mothers Against Drunk Driving continues to weigh the overwhelming benefits and countless lives saved because of the new law in order to gain support and diminish the views of opposers. Likewise, The Amethyst Initiative is supporting the other end of the theory in order to gain support towards lowering the drinking age back to 18. They are using the power of many high ranking collegiate officials to cater to the younger crowd as well as the government. The young adults of today’s society themselves are the ones who see the effects first hand on their generation, and through time, are gaining the fight on both sides. The governments change in laws to raise the minimum drinking age in 1984 can be defended and seen as counterproductive. Only time will tell how this problem will resolve in the future, while the binge drinking epidemic that surrounds young adults today will continue, and has not yet officially been identified as being more dangerous than the traffic incidents that the change in laws had originally tried to