America Must Lower the Drinking Age The current drinking age in the United States of America is 21. There are some people who agree with the current drinking age even some who think it should be raised. On the other hand, a number of people feel that the current drinking age produces more problems than it prevents (“Cross Fire”). The United States has unsuccessfully tried prohibition legislation not once, but twice in the past. These laws were eventually done away with due to the inability
When looking at the drinking age in many nations, a trend of relatively young minimum legal drinking ages (MLDA) can be seen around the world. As it stands, all of America’s 50 states employ a MLDA of 21 making America one of only seven countries in the world to have a drinking age set at 21; the oldest age set as the minimum legal drinking age in the world. Where many of our friends in Europe are happily drinking away at 18, many here in America are left wondering why we don’t employ the same age
Binge Drinking is an Epidemic Researchers have found many risk factors for drinking among teens and young adults. Adolescents long to have fun, and enjoy their youth years as much as they can. They reach out for things that make them feel older and more alive. Little do they know that the result of alcohol is detrimental to a fun easy-going lifestyle. According to Deborah Morrow (2017), binge drinking is when someone abuses alcohol, and they go over the 5/4 limit in two hours or less. The 5/4 limit
The drinking age in America should be changed and it is because the tax revenue caused by the increased population of drinkers will be paying more taxes for the alcohol produced. The maturity of the adult population changes through the span of three years, but adults can drink in other countries while fighting for it. In the year of 1919 prohibition for alcohol was introduced into America. The tax revenue from alcohol would increase due to the population of people buying alcohol would increase. Between
The use of alcohol has been dated back thousands of years past the Egyptians and Greeks, drinking wine or beer was not an uncommon sight to see thousands of years ago and although times have changed its still not uncommon to see someone drinking today. Fermenting grains or fruits simplifies the processes of making the substance we call “booze”. Drug-Free World’s “The Truth about Alcohol” provides information to anyone free on the Internet about alcohol, the drug, we commonly consume today. It
are you going to drink under age. What if I could tell you that the drinking age use to be 18 years old in 30 states. Should the drinking age go back to 18 years old? I am one who believes that as an adult you should have the ability to make those decisions. Lower the drinking age to 18, but we need to enforce the laws and educate our youth. Drinking has been a big part of American. A lot of families will tell you that drinking has ruined their families. That is why this is such a controversial
whether to lower the legal age to purchase alcohol from the age of twenty one to eighteen. Majority of Americans agree in saying that this would only add to the ever growing problem America already faces with alcohol. Many questions have derived from this debate such as: How would this change effect society? Adult hood in America starts at the age of eighteen, but should this apply to the responsibilities of alcohol? What medical challenges will be faced with such a change? The decision for this matter
important to the culture of America. United States has surely been accustomed to controversies relating the consumption of alcohol. The most recent and ongoing controversy is whether the legal drinking age should be lowered from twenty-one to eighteen. college students have found drinking at American universities has grown to become a defining part of college life despite the fact that a majority of college students cannot even legally drink. Lowering the drinking the drinking age could prove to be
drink, especially youth, although society and culture are possibly the two most important factors. These almost-essential factors convey the thoughts and attitudes of a certain individual 's culture, society and essentially their identity. As each society and each culture has their own rules and beliefs on the consumption of alcohol, it is sometimes very hard for adolescents to make up their own minds on whether to consume alcohol or not. This could lead to adolescence drinking from a much undesired
students that get drunk on a minimum basis of one night a week (Foster, 1996). In Mexico I can be drunk any night of the week because of the 18 year old age limit on alcohol; so if I were in Mexico right now drinking, I would be drinking legally. Europe as well has very low or no drinking age laws at all. In Germany all you have to do is reach up to the counter and order a beer. In fact, mothers give their infants a substance called maltzbeir, which has several important proteins and carbohydrates