Research Paper Zack Means 4* Period Should you be allowed to drink alcoholic beverages at 18 years old? After all 18 is when most adult privileges are received anyway. The drinking age should be lowered to 18 in the United States. For about 40 years ago there have been discrepancies about the drinking age. In the late 60s and early 70s exactly 29 states lowered their drinking age. They did this because they wanted to at least match the enlistment and voting age. Which was and is 18. This resulted in drunk-driving accidents. This cause 16 out of the original 29 states to move their drinking age back to 21 in early 1983. Then, July 17, 1983 President Reagan signed to a “uniform age of 21” for legal …show more content…
It increases risks for “addiction”, “memory loss”, “suicide” and “depression”. This is the number 1 Con on procon.org. Lowering the drinking age will increase traffic fatalities more than they already are. In the New York Times Tara Watson say traffic fatalities will become more frequent. So many 22 year olds die due to over alcoholic consumption, so lowering the MLDA would be irresponsible to increase the chance of more fatalities. According to Cdc.gov “excessive drinking contributes to more than 4,300 deaths among people below 21 in the US each year”. Lowering the LACA (Legal Alcohol Consumption Age) would just increase that …show more content…
There is a lot of websites that say that if the US lowered the drinking age will increase drunk driving accidents. In procon.org “since 1982… driving fatalities occurred across all age groups….therefore it can not be reliably attributed to MLDA 21”. The biggest argument against lowering the drinking is the driving fatalities. But know there is reason to believe that it will not affect the fatalities. The alcohol flow has not been stopped by MLDA 21. It has just been “pushed underground” causing more risky behaviors and situations. The MLDA will not affect the underaged drinking age accidents because the already occur in most