Alcohol Laws On Sundays Should Be Illegal

Many Americans do not feel like adults until their 21st birthday. At age 18 an American has the ability to vote, be drafted or enlist into the military, own a weapon, request a loan, get married, buy cigarettes and many more liberties and consequences that come when a teenager becomes an adult. Nonetheless, in the United States and adult does not have the ability to legally drink until the age of 21. I find the regulation of alcohol necessary and as a protection for the citizens because, as the article “Effects of Alcohol Use” states, the abuse of alcohol contributes to liver damage, leads into driving under the influence, domestic violence and in the long term it can cause cancer and death of brain cells. However, I believe that the alcohol regulation is bias and should be at the same level of liberty as voting, joining the military, owning a weapon, buying cigarettes, requesting a loan and getting married.

In 1920, The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution that prohibits the manufacture, sales, and transportation of the alcohol was passed and continued until 1933.

drinking laws) target sales of alcohol to minors and public possession of alcohol by minors.

dealing with alcohol. Alcohol have always had a pull on the U.S because we have huge death

Prohibition was introduced to all American states apart from Maryland in 1920. Prohibition was the banning of alcohol; you could be arrested for sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol. There were many factors that influenced the introduction of prohibition. One of the main factors was the temperance movement’s two examples of this

Called the "15-gallon law," it prohibited the sale of alcohol in amounts of less than 15 gallons (57 liters). This limited the sale of alcohol to the wealthy. In 1846 Maine passed the first state Prohibition law. By the mid-1850s 13 states had such laws, but by 1863 all except Maine had repealed them.

Changes are taking place to prevent and minimize binge drinking. Colleges, Mothers Against Drunk Driving program, community and even parents are now realizing how crucial their involvement is in order to improve the situation. Law enforcement has also stepped up their game by ensuring local establishments, especially those around college campuses and high schools, abide by the rules, and punishing those adults who are willing to break them. They constantly patrol areas known to be used for “breaking the law” to create a safer environment for those around (4).

The temperance reform. The government blamed everything bad that happened on the use of alcohol. So, they banned the manufacture, transportation, and selling of alcohol. This never really worked though. There were hundreds if not thousands of people who distilled their own alcohol, usually called moonshine, and sold it themselves. This is where the term “bootlegging” comes in. Bootlegging by definition is the making, selling, or distribution of illicit products such as liquor illegally. Although this reform has since been changed back, moonshine is still mostly illegal. This reform edited the 18th

I am going to address the Oklahoma State Liquor Laws. The law specifically in question is section 534, chapter 3 of Title 37 in the Oklahoma Statues. The issue being that, in the state of Oklahoma, the sale of any alcoholic beverage that is over 3.2 percent alcohol volume by weight has to be sold at room temperature and cannot be sold in grocery stores or convenient stores. By law it can only be sold by state-licensed liquor stores. This means that the general public has to pay a higher mark-up for the alcohol purchased in these privately owned liquor stores and businesses. The law says that such drinks are to be sold only at room temperature. It is also illegal for the sale of higher alcohol content drinks on Sunday’s, on election days, and on holidays. Texas, on the other hand, makes the sales of all alcoholic drinks legal in grocery stores, convenient stores, and liquor stores.

After fourteen years of the national Prohibition, it finally came to an end in 1933, meaning you had to be twenty-one to buy or consume alcohol at this time. In 1972 Iowa lowered there drinking age to nineteen after decades of it being the same post prohibition. A year later Iowa lowers there drinking age once again down to eighteen years old, and also businesses are allowed the sales of alcohol on Sundays. Once again Iowa decides to rise their drinking age eight years later to nineteen years old, but allowing individuals born on or before June 30, 1960 to be grandfathered in. And lastly on July 1, 1986, Iowa’s legal drinking age is raised to twenty-one and remains until this day today due to President

Prior to 1920, each state established its own minimum legal drinking age. When the Eighteenth Amendment was passed on January 17, 1920, the era of prohibition began. While the Eighteenth Amendment was in effect, it was illegal in the Unites States to manufacture, distribute, and/or sell alcohol. Prohibition ended on December 5, 1933, when the Twenty-first Amendment was ratified. The states were

The prohibition was a widespread movement during the first decade of the 20th century that sought to illegalize the widespread distribution of alcohol. Although enforced by the Volstead Act legislation proposed on December 18, 1917, it was very difficult to mandate and often resulted in illegal production and sale of liquor, known as “bootlegging”.

Central idea: Alcoholism has been popular in modern society and it has so many health risks.

Some states have already begun to put limits on when one can buy alcohol. Texas is one state that has implemented the law of not selling alcohol after midnight. Two

Alcohol in large doses can be very detrimental to not only the user but to people around him/her. For example, if a man was to go to a club and drink a lot of alcohol, in which his body cannot withhold; his heavy intakes will lead to dizziness, vomiting, and impaired breathing and in extreme cases, unconsciousness and coma that can lead to death. According to Caron, underage drinking is a leading public health problem in the United States. Each year, approximately 5,000 young people under the age of 21 die as a result of drinking: 1,900 from motor vehicle accidents, 1,600 from homicides, 300 from suicides, and hundreds from other injuries such as falls, burns, and drowning. This shows that anyone on the road near an intoxicated driver is in grave danger as they can be killed or badly injured in an instant as the drunk driver has slight control over anything they are doing. Many reckless kills have been made by drunken drivers/people over the years resulting in many families to pay the price of losing a family member for no relevant reason at all but making alcohol increase death rates that could be provoked by intruding prohibition.