The debate over what age should be legal for a person to drink has been going on for a long while now. The talk of lowering the drinking age has been because many young people in today’s society believe that since they are adults at the age of 18, then they should be able to decide when they themselves should be able to purchase and consume alcohol. A lower drinking age would have a worse affect rather than a pleasing one, so it would be more beneficial to keep it as it is rather than changing it. Some of the benefits of keeping the drinking age as it is would be: less drunk driving accidents, less brain damage and better decision making. The statistics of having drunk driving accidents occur are significantly higher when the drinking age …show more content…
She shows this by stating, “Lowering the drinking age will help slow the need for pregaming and bring the college fake ID business to a dead stop. It can’t help but reduce the binge drinking, drug overdoses and sexual assaults.” (Cary). She uses the example that now there a lot stricter rules on drunk driving and that is the reason for the decline and not the MLDA21 exactly. Although this is a good reason, the government and states cannot fix every single problem with just one law and the solving the drug and alcohol use problem will probably take several decades instead of just one law. By lowering the age limit, some of the younger and less experienced teens in this generation will have an easier time getting their hands and possibly even abusing alcohol. By increasing the use of alcohol the mistreatment of alcohol also increases which correlates with how developed the brain is, especially in the decision making area. The brain is not fully developed until age 25, so a younger person’s decisions may not be fully thought through. Since the brain is still growing, while people are consuming alcohol, they are harming the parts that are still trying to form. The frontal lobe, which is the decision making part of the brain, is also still