National Minimum Drinking Age Act

the legal drinking age is 21 years of age, but in the past recent years people have been questioning if the legal age should be lowered. The problem of underage drinking on college campuses has been growing for the past few years and people are beginning to question if the 21 laws are still helping rather than harming young adults. As teenagers begin to experience the taste of freedom and drivers license many are also exposed to the taste of alcohol at some point before the legal age. Alcohol has

At the age of 21 is when the philosopher Aristotle believes is when you finish the seven year stage of youth development this means a lot sense Aristotle did study about human nature. The age 21 makes people feel like they must be more responsible and not make any excuses for what they do and how they react to a situation. Drinking should be kept at the age it's at right now and that is the age of 21 years old there's no perfect age for it expect this. Jobs and renting a car shouldn't be based

One reason that children should play competitive sports at a young age, because then they are less likely to do drugs and alcohol. For example, Top 10 Health Benefits of Youth Sports says “It is well-known that children who participate in sports are less likely to drop out of school, and become involved in drugs and alcohol activity.” Michelle Obama, the former First Lady, had a very big speech on it, and she had a very powerful point. Her point was how athletes are less likely to become involved

York Daily Record Advocates for Changes in Pennsylvania ARD Law Recently, the York Daily Record published an editorial advocating for changes in Pennsylvania law about Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition or ARD. The changes deal with how the law works with the state’s new ignition interlock law. If the state charged you with a minor criminal offense in York or anywhere in Central Pennsylvania, you should contact the law firm of Carrucoli and Associates. Our firm can help you determine if your

The minimum drinking age in all 50 US States should remain at 21. Exceptions do exist on a state-by-state basis for consumption at home under adult supervision, medical necessity, and other reasons. If parents allow their teenagers to consume alcohol, then we are saying that it is acceptable for a 10 year old to drink beer. In 1976, US Supreme Court case Craig v. Boren ruled 7-2 that this age difference violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment (American Medical Association).

Should the drinking age in the United States be changed? This question has been raised many times throughout my lifetime. I am interested in this topic for many reasons. I know many people who participate in underage drinking, which makes me wonder what effects this choice could have long term. I also know people who chosen not to drink until they are 25 years old. The legal drinking age in the United States is currently 21, which is four years shy of when the brain stops developing. Previously

upon underage drinking and adults drinking responsibly. Whereas, the counter argument goes as far as to say that the ads have no direct correlation with underage or reckless drinking and that they’re just used to redirect blame onto the ads rather than the person. The first article states that alcoholic beverage ads should be restricted and then goes on to describe the overwhelming amount of scientific evidence there is to support the correlation between the ads and underage drinking. Leiber also

1984 brought change to the United States of American, but South Dakota did not want any part of it. In 1984, the United States passed a law saying that people needed to be 21 years of age to purchase and consume alcohol that was considered low point beer. In the years prior it was 19 years of age to purchase and consume low point beer that had 3.2% of alcohol. Any states that did not comply with the new law would hold five percent of their road funding from the Secretary of Transportation that

everyone is aware about the harm of consumption of too much alcohol, sometimes when someone is constantly extremely stressed they tend to find relief at the bottom of a bottle. It’s interesting that most of the times you only hear about teens underage drinking to the extreme, but if they thought high school was rough. Apparently the real world’s tougher to deal with and leads to getting drunk as well. This article caught my attention because all they talk about in health class how not to underage drink

underage drinking. As a high school student, this public service announcement grabbed my attention due to the fact that I see underage drinking daily. I chose this public service announcement because I feel that underage drinking currently has one of the most negative effects on teenagers. Underage drinking can physically and mentally abuse a person. I can relate to this issue because I have interacted with underage drinking which led to trouble and danger several times. Underage drinking is considered