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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Lower the Drinking Age? Kyle Altic November 4th‚ 2013 Abstract There was a big debate on whether or not the minimum drinking age should be lowered. The media gave this debate a lot of attention. It’s not about the age it’s about the decisions they make with alcohol at a very young adult age. I do like the argument if you are old enough to serve our country and die for your country then you should be able to drink at that age. After all the research I have done and retrieved
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At the age of 18 you are legally considered an adult in the U.S. It entitles you to what you would think to be the freedoms of a responsible adult. You can vote‚ get married‚ join the army and fight for our country‚ and even sign contracts. But somehow you’re not considered mature enough to have a sip of alcohol? This law should be considered discrimination against young adults in the 18-20 age range. What many people don’t know‚ is the real reason why we have the world’s highest drinking age. In 1984
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Lowering the Drinking Age Since the drinking age has been raised to twenty-one in 1984‚ there has been alarming evidence that illegal drinking still occurs between the ages of eighteen to twenty-four‚ more prominently on college campuses. Although there are a plethora of reasons as to why the drinking age has been raised‚ there are extensively fundamental reasons as to why the drinking age needs to be lowered in an effort to halt the rising illegal drinking rate. These reasons include teaching responsibility
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In the U.S. the age of adulthood is 18. And with that comes many responsibilities and decisions that can now be made without consents. But there is still one thing a now young adult can’t decide on their own and that is if they will consume alcohol. The legal drinking age is not until you are 21 years of age. People argue that it should be lowered for it is an individual decision and 18 is old enough to make that decision. The legal drinking age should remain as is because the brain of a young adult
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society is drinking. Drinking in the United States has been an issue since the start of prohibition; alcohol was never the same in the US after that. It taught people to hide when they are drinking‚ just like most underage teens do now days. Although‚ alcohol is treated as a big scary issue‚ in most fatalities from drunk driving have dropped significantly since the drinking age was raised from 18 to 21‚ lowering the drinking age back down would drastically help the U.S.’s binge drinking problem‚ therefore
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that the current legal drinking age which is 21 should be lowered to eighteen or not. Alcohol consumption has become the number one choice drug to be used by America’s adolescents. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) wrote in their fact sheet titled “Underage Drinking”: “Particularly worrisome among adolescents is the high prevalence of binge drinking... Underage drinkers consume‚ on average‚ 4 to 5 drinks per occasion about 5 times a month. By comparison‚ drinkers age 26 and older consume 2
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irresponsible under aged person‚ can be deadly. Furthermore‚ for anyone to consider lowering the legal drinking age from 21‚ to 18‚ in my opinion is simply ludicrous. John Bowersox reports‚ “Since Colonial times‚ drinking alcohol has been part of American culture and its use by young people has been accepted by many as part of growing up. In fact‚ during the late 1960s and early 1970s‚ many States lowered the legal drinking age from 21 to 18. Following this change‚ the number of alcohol-related traffic
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Although the legal purchase age is 19‚ a majority of young people under this age consume alcohol‚ and too many of them do so in an irresponsible manner. This is largely because drinking is seen by these youth as an enticing forbidden fruit‚ a trophy of rebellion against authority‚ and a symbol of adulthood. We can relate the illegal ways of the youth today‚ to the measures taken during the prohibition in Canada from 1918 to 1920. These efforts to prevent drinking were unenforceable and created serious
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Proposal Paper: Lowering the Drinking Age Although the initiative opens up a popular discussion‚ Congress‚ however‚ does not share this desire to open this topic up for conversation. In 1984‚ Thorson 2 Organizations such as M.A.D.D. (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) are already frowning upon the institutions that‚ assuming the current laws will not be enforced‚ have shown their support for the Amethyst Initiative. It was stated in September 5th‚ 2008‚ in the University of Connecticut’s Daily
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