Persuasive Essay On Legal Drinking Age

Legal Drinking Age One of the biggest arguments that you will find going on today is, what the legal drinking age in The United States of America should be. Today in the USA the legal drinking age is twenty-one, but why twenty-one why not eighteen or thirty? Why have a drinking age of twenty-one in this country when there are over two hundred other countries that have lower drinking ages, and none that have higher? Who gets to decide the age at which someone is mature enough to consume alcohol? All these questions and more have been used to both keep the drinking age twenty-one and lower it to eighteen. Today in America you can not go through high school with out being put in a situation to consume alcohol. Ruth Clifford Engs an applied
This inevitably failed because the laws were unenforceable and it started to create many other social problems. Having the drinking age twenty-one is starting to look exactly like that time period. Underage drinking is on the rise and it is becoming easier everyday to get alcohol illegally. Also as I stated earlier binge drinking and other negative effects of alcohol are rising especially in our youth. Sooner or later these laws just like those of prohibition will have to be looked at and changed if the government wants to gain back its control and protect everyone from the dangers of alcohol. In conclusion underage alcohol consumption is an enormous problem in our country today. Whether the drinking age is twenty-one or eighteen there will always be underage drinkers, however by lowering the age to eighteen we could better protect our children. We would be able to raise more socially acceptable drinkers who by being better informed would be able to make better decisions. A drinking age of eighteen makes perfect sense for the reasons I have already stated and I urge those who have the power to, pursue lowering the drinking