Legal drinking age should be lowered Introduction: Once a person turns 18 years old they are already considered an adult. Yes‚ it may sound bad saying that 18 years old should have the right to legally drink‚ but lets look at the facts; you can drive a car‚ vote in all elections‚ smoke cigarettes‚ serve on juries‚ be prosecuted as an adult‚ get married‚ have children‚ fight in a war‚ gamble‚ but not have a beer until your 21? Now‚ if young men and women under the age of 21 can legally get married
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If age 18 is legally considered an adult‚ why can’t they drink alcohol? In 1984 the drinking law was changed from 18 to 21(Procon.org)‚ since then there has been a 13% rise in car accidents due to under age drinking ‚ 300 deaths and 2‚100 homicides per year due to under age drinking. Therefore I believe the age to consume alcohol should be lowered to a younger age. At age 18 you are legally considered an adult‚ you are able to join the military‚ get married and even start taking classes to run
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question should the drinking age be lowered to 18? In today’s society‚ most young adults drink behind their guardians back‚ but do not realize the consequences that come with their choices. With much speculation‚ this topic has became a very intriguing argument. What does drinking do to the growth of the brain? Can alcohol do just as much harm to someone 18 then someone 21? Will they be just as responsible? Can someone that young make the correct decisions? Underage drinking can cause multiple issues
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the Uniform Drinking Age Act‚ a law which would severely penalize states who failed to restrict the drinking age to 21 or higher‚ was signed into law (Hoover). It is odd to think‚ in today’s day and age‚ that 35 years ago the drinking age was below 21 in over 70% of US states (“Minimum Legal Drinking Age…”)‚ however‚ this all changed when the federal government took away highway funds and dangled them in front of these states like a carrot‚ waiting for them all to raise their legal age for consumption
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In the United States‚ there is a law that prohibits youth twenty-one years of age and younger not to drink any alcoholic beverages. However‚ there has been an ongoing controversy on whether the drinking age should be lower than twenty-one. Underage drinking has been a major controversial issue for years‚ yet why is it not under control? A lot of people believe that it should be lowered‚ but also there are a considerable amount of people who think it should stay the same. This debate has been going
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Minimum Drinking Age According to the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine‚ in 2010 underage drinkers from ages 15-20 were responsible for 48.8% of alcohol purchases. The minimum legal drinking age(MLDA) in the United States was 18 years old until 1984‚ when all fifty states raised their legal drinking age to 21 or older. The drinking age should be lowered from 21 years old to 18 years old because at that age one legally becomes an adult‚ it would reduce the amount of unsafe drinking activity
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Appellation Do you believe the drinking age should be lowered to allow eighteen year olds to consume alcohol‚ or should the legal age to drink alcoholic beverages stay at the age of twenty-one? Prior to 1984 you were‚ once you turned eighteen‚ in most states permitted to purchase alcohol. It was completely up to the state government. At age 18 they are legally an adult‚ and can therefore abide by their own rules and if they make a bad decision they have to pay the price. Why is it that as an
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Lowering the Drinking Age to 18 in the United States While it may seem to some‚ drinking at age eighteen is frowned upon. It is actually true that many people between the ages of 18 and 20 drink alcohol illegally without any sense of guilt. On July 17‚ 1984‚ a law was established in the United States that impacted a large number of America’s youth. The indicated law was the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. Legal drinking ages were originally determined by each state. Many states kept the age at twenty
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Tayrin O’Rand 14 March 2012 Should the Minimum Drinking Age be Lowered? The minimum drinking age became a hot topic ever since it was set to twenty one years old. It is a law not everyone welcomes with open arms‚ one that has the most impact in the lives of adolescents and if violated‚ one that can put a state at risk of forfeiting ten percent of its annual federal highway appropriation. John M. McCardell Jr.‚ president of Middlebury College; founder and president of Choose Responsibility‚
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Teenagers become adults at the age of eighteen; they earn the responsibility to vote and to fight for our country‚ so why shouldn’t they be able to consume alcohol? Some adults feel that lowering the legal drinking age would cause more problems on the road and in bars or night clubs‚ but until we give young adults the opportunity to prove themselves‚ we are just stereotyping every eighteen-year-old. Here are a couple of reasons that lowering the legal drinking age makes sense: eighteen-year-olds
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