Age drinking

were allowed to choose their own drinking age. In the 1970’s, 30 states lowered their drinking age to tie into the 26th amendment lowering of the voting age to 18. In 1984 US congress decided they would put a ten percent cut to infrastructure funding to states who did not adopt a 21 year old drinking age. Many countries around the world have a legal drinking age or 18 years old and sometimes even younger. There are only three other countries that have a drinking age of 21 years old and those countries

starting to drink at a younger age, and their drinking patterns are becoming more extreme.” Keeping the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) at twenty-one or lowering it to the age of eighteen has been a continuous issue in the United States. People, mostly adolescent teenagers, say it should be lowered because if one is able to vote at the age of eighteen, they should also be allowed to drink. Sure, when a seventeen-year-old turns eighteen they are considered an adult, but age does not define maturity;

Legal Drinking Age in America: A Discourse Appraisal You know an issue has evoked large levels of community discussion when interest groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving and rappers like J-kwon are telling us the same thing: teen drinking is very bad. But discussion on the topic tends to vary far more than that. Congress discussed the issue in 1984, with the National Minimum Drinking Age Act: an act that withheld federal highway funding from states without a minimum legal drinking age (MLDA)

legal drinking age in America has been 21 for about 32 years. There are many discussions going around about the pros and cons of lowering it back down to 18. While drinking alcohol under the age of 21 is illegal in america, does it really stop teenagers from drinking before they turn 21? Some states have have exceptions of this law for specific reasons which are, at home, under adult supervision, religion, and other reasons. There are plenty of people that are considering lowering the drinking, as

Here in the United States, there is a law that prohibits youth 21 years of age and younger not to drink any alcohol beverages. However, in this country, anyone who turns 18 can sign up and be in the armed forces to protect the country. In the year 2001, war broke out between the Middle East and the United States and thousands of men and women were deployed to the Middle East to deal with the problem. While they were over there, the soldiers would witness many things that civilians could never

the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) appropriate? In 1984 the legal drinking age was changed to 21 for all states. Previously, the drinking age varied between the ages of 18-21. There have been many studies done to show why the MLDA of 21 is appropriate and should not be changed, and I stand by this statement. The 21 year old MLDA saves lives. There has been reduced alcohol-related traffic crashes and alcohol consumption among teens (DeJong np) Raising the legal drinking age has decreased the amount

One concern of legalizing alcohol at age 18 is known as the trickle-down effect. The idea is that if young adults can legally obtain alcohol when they are still in high school, that alcohol will often end up in the hands of much younger kids. The same problem that exists today, where juniors in college who are finally legally old enough to buy alcohol will supply their younger friends with alcohol, would happen but this time the alcohol would be coming from seniors in high school. This would result

Let The Drinking Age Be Lowered Should the drinking age be lowered? This question has been stumbled upon for more than 50 years by the United States government. Fighting to keep the age 21 has made alcohol seem like a “forbidden fruit” taboo, in our nation. This law is not helping minors stay away from drinking at all, but making underage consumption worse. The drinking age is inferior and should be lowered because citizens of the U.S. are considered an adult at 18, minors are drinking, and there

Logan Brady Mrs. Angela Bates English 2 5 April 2016 Joining Adulthood You know, a huge topic of discussion we hear a lot about at my age is about the drinking age. Some say it should be lowered and others say it should either stay the same or increase. Now, there is a lot of underage drinking that occurs in this time period because of the fact that it is easier for underage teens to get alcohol. Some steal their parents, fake id’s are harder to recognize, and some stores don’t id people and

Should the drinking age be increased to 21 pros physiological argument which is saying there is evidence that the brain does not fully develop until the mid twenties in fact, and that when the brain is not yet fully developed the impact on the brain of alcohol abuse is much more severe than it is on the fully developed brain Evidence from other countries where the drinking age was increased also showed that the the consequences of alcohol abuse, such as road crashes had gone down, said Davies. The