The Aftermath of Teenage Drinking
The Aftermath of Teenage Drinking
In America today many cultures use alcohol in many different occasions, For instance when toasting at weddings its ceremonial to pop champagne, as well wine is served during the Christian communion, or just simply going out to a club or bar to celebrate birthdays. The legal drinking age throughout the United States is 21. However we all know majority of high school students have tried alcohol. When drinking at an early age it can lead to alcoholism. Despite the fact that drinking is so much fun, it’s such a widespread and terrible problem. Drinking usually leads to sitting around having hilarious conversations with friends or people you don’t know. Deciding whether to drink is a personal decision that we each eventually have to make, but drinking at a young age in America has proven to be reckless and irresponsible and can lead to negative consequences.
In the history of the United States, Prohibition, also known as The Noble Experiment, is the period from 1919-1933, during which the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned nationally as mandated in the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. About half a million people were thrown in jail and millions of dollars were spent to enforce the law. During this time thousands of people were killed when enforcing the law. One of the terrible consequences of the prohibition was that it put money into the pockets of organized crime in the United States. Gangsters like Bugsy Siegel and Al Capone ruled the under world and sale of alcohol estimated to be a 250 million dollar business (Defining Moments Prohibition, Jeff Hill). Then the United States realized that it was a failure and decided to end prohibition and let people do whatever they like with alcohol. Although alcohol was legalized there was no age limit of who could drink it. Wikipedia states, “ The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 was passed on July 17, 1984
In America today many cultures use alcohol in many different occasions, For instance when toasting at weddings its ceremonial to pop champagne, as well wine is served during the Christian communion, or just simply going out to a club or bar to celebrate birthdays. The legal drinking age throughout the United States is 21. However we all know majority of high school students have tried alcohol. When drinking at an early age it can lead to alcoholism. Despite the fact that drinking is so much fun, it’s such a widespread and terrible problem. Drinking usually leads to sitting around having hilarious conversations with friends or people you don’t know. Deciding whether to drink is a personal decision that we each eventually have to make, but drinking at a young age in America has proven to be reckless and irresponsible and can lead to negative consequences.
In the history of the United States, Prohibition, also known as The Noble Experiment, is the period from 1919-1933, during which the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned nationally as mandated in the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. About half a million people were thrown in jail and millions of dollars were spent to enforce the law. During this time thousands of people were killed when enforcing the law. One of the terrible consequences of the prohibition was that it put money into the pockets of organized crime in the United States. Gangsters like Bugsy Siegel and Al Capone ruled the under world and sale of alcohol estimated to be a 250 million dollar business (Defining Moments Prohibition, Jeff Hill). Then the United States realized that it was a failure and decided to end prohibition and let people do whatever they like with alcohol. Although alcohol was legalized there was no age limit of who could drink it. Wikipedia states, “ The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 was passed on July 17, 1984