Responsibility Lowering the drinking age to eighteen‚ mistake or a way to stop larger problems? I have found a website that‚ if you are for lowering the drinking‚ will clear a lot of these kinds of questions up. Choose Responsibility is a non-profit organization founded by President Emeritus John M. McCardell Jr. of Middlebury College‚ when McCardell was approached by the Robertson Foundation‚ a foundation interested in investigating the consequences of the 21 year-old drinking age. The Effects of
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Lowering the Drinking Age The U.S. has the drinking problem. The young people‚ especially the college students‚ drink in excessive ways that have dangerous and damaging effect. Many people say the best way for combat this problem is to keep the Minimum Legal Drinking Age‚ or the MLDA‚ for 21 years and older adults. They argue the worst thing is to encourage more young people to drink alcohol because this will cause more risky behavior and even more deaths‚ as from traffic fatalities. Of course
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2014 Drinking Age of America When turning 18‚ you are classified as an adult‚ you can vote‚ you can signature your own legal documents‚ and you can suit up for the army; the one thing you cannot do in America when you’re 18 is drink. Drinking nowadays in many countries is a very popular social activity amongst teens and adults. With Colleges and the upbeat culture America has‚ it’s hard for young adults to not have a drink here and there; but American Law lists that the drinking age is 21 and
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ABby Not Lowering Drinking Age “Approximately 92% of U.S. adults who drink excessively report binge drinking in the past 30 days (Fact Sheets).” The local government should not lower the drinking age to 18 because lowing this effect the frontal lobes development‚ there would be more ‘binge drinking’‚ and there would be more alcohol-associated violent behavior. But if the local government were to lower the drinking age‚ there would be less of a thrill. According Christian Moyer research‚ “"We know
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Underage drinking has been a major issue in the United States and can be severely solved by just simply lowering the drinking age by 3 years and will drastically reduce the thrill of breaking the law for teanegers. Teenagers are rebellious and know it if the drinking age were 18 they would not consider breaking the law because there is no fun if the law were to get lowered. Reducing the law will also stop the manufacturing of false id where teenagers deliberately disrespect the law. The high
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Should the legal age for the consumption of alcoholic beverages such as wine‚ beer‚ and liquor be lowered? In America‚ any person that is twenty-one years of age is considered ‘old enough’ to consume such beverages and allowed to socially drink. Even though any person of eighteen years or older is considered an adult in the view of the the United States. Any eighteen year old is able to vote for said leader of the country even if they don’t factor in certain the effects a leader would have on the
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Between 1976 and 1983‚ many states begin to raise the minimum legal age for purchasing alcohol. The primary reason for this was to combat drunk driving fatalities. Then‚ in 1984‚ Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act‚ which stated that states must raise the minimum drinking age to 21 by 1986‚ or they will lose ten percent of their federal highway funding. This act shows just how serious of an issue youth drinking had become. As a result of this‚ there has been a dramatic decrease
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Lowering the Legal Drinking Age Today we live in a country that prides itself on being free‚ although there are a number of people that feel they do not have as much freedom as they deserve‚ such as the freedom to drink at a younger age. The legal drinking age should be lowered to the age of 18‚ where in the eyes of the law you are seen as an adult. Many different opinions are opened as the subject of lowering the legal drinking age is brought up. For most‚ if not all‚ teenagers in high school
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Legal Drinking Age The legal drinking age has been a huge controversial issue for an extremely long time (Meldon). Some people say the legal drinking age should be left alone at age 21. Others believe it should be lowered to age 18; the age when someone is considered an adult and given many responsibilities (ProCon.org). I believe the legal drinking age should be kept at age 21. Alcohol is the number one drug problem in the United States. Americans spend a slightly under 100 billion dollars
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The Drinking Age 18 the dawn of adulthood. An age where you are allowed to vote‚ allowed to buy a lottery ticket‚ and allowed to register and fight for our country. Is there anything you can’t do? Yes‚ at 18 you cannot buy liquor of any form‚ at anytime‚ or anywhere legally. I think that the legal age for drinking and purchase of liquor should be lowered from 21 to 18 and I will briefly explain my position on this matter. Firstly‚ when a person turns 18 they are considered and adult in the American
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