Lower the Drinking Age

Lower the Drinking Age
        The drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. People in that age range should be allowed to drink in taverns, pubs, universities and colleges. Lowering the drinking age could result in teaching young adults responsible drinking. Places such as China, Fiji, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Thailand and Viet Nam do not have a drinking age. As a result there are fewer cases of drunk driving and misconduct while intoxicated. In the USA you must be twenty-one to legally buy and consume alcohol. If someone is considered an adult and expected to act like one at the age of eighteen, it is not right to confine young adults to a drinking age of twenty-one. At the age of eighteen you are allowed to drive cars, fly planes, get married, vote, pay taxes, take out loans and even risk our lives as a member of the U.S. armed forces. Laws in all fifty states say that no alcoholic beverages may be sold to anyone until that magic twenty-first birthday.
To begin, it is completely necessary to question this law. Why is twenty-one the “magical” age that makes a person smart and mature enough to consume alcohol? Why not eighteen or thirty-five or even forty? At the age of eighteen, people are considered adults. It may seem odd for adults to allow eighteen to twenty year olds to marry, have children, own cars, homes, pay taxes, vote, fly planes, risk their lives in the armed forces own firearms and to be financially and socially independent. Yet to be legally prohibited from drinking a glass of wine in a restaurant, or even a glass of champagne at their own wedding is unlawful. Also, I think if parents are 100% against drinking it makes some young adults more likely to rebel.
        Some children also see alcohol as a “forbidden fruit”. It is viewed as an adult activity and teenagers strive to have adult-like qualities. In order to get alcoholic beverages, teenagers choose to carry fake I.D.’s which can create a negative situation. This kind of devious... [continues]

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