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Explain Why The Drinking Age Should Be 18

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According to a survey by National Public Radio, young people can be identified as young adults at the age of 18 as the brain is fully developed and the young adults can think and make decision like another mature person. Almost each and every country has its legal voting and driving age as 18. If a person has the right to choose the president of a country and drive on the roads which requires a lot of responsibility because its the question about the safety of other people on the road as well the leader who has to lead the country in each and every possible way which requires maturity. If a person is capable of taking responsibilities like electing the president and driving then I think that the legal age to drink should also be 18 instead …show more content…

Most students join fraternities as it is a group which has like minded people or a group of people who take care of each other like a family member and are always together with each other like a team. The fraternities are famous for its parties where the parties have a lot of alcohol in it where identification cards with the age 21 are not required. There are even tasks that members have to do like having shots, drinking a lot of alcohol where there is peer pressure too. Even school kids drink alcohol which is really common in the United States. Moreover underage drinkers have older friends who get alcohol for them so the law where the legal age is 21 is barely followed. According to livescience.com, The revenue from underage drinkers is around $23billion alone in the United States. If the legal age is decreased there can be a huge increase in a country’s revenue and benefit the country as a whole. The number of cases recorded of underage drinkers in fights and road accidents is much less than what is recorded for legal age drinkers. The cases of fights of drunk people has also very less number of young adults on it. The young adults are mature enough to see whats right and wrong for them rather the number of police cases of legal aged drinkers are

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