Introduction This issue analysis will address whether the legal age of alcohol consumption should be raised to 21 years old. Arguments for this include, drink driving accidents and how alcohol ruins your brain from developing. Arguments against this include 18 year old responsibilities and prohibiting drinking. For- A third of Australia's car accidents caused by drink drivers. 33% of drink drivers who are involved in accidents are are aged from 17 to 24 years old. Drivers aged 16 to 20 are 17 times more likely to cause a car crash when they have a blood concentration of 0.08%. This can show that less experienced drivers have higher rates of causing a crash especially when intoxicated with alcohol. Not only are you risking your own life, you are risking many other lives around you when drink driving. As you would know the legal age for alcohol consumption is 18 years old. There many reasons for people to disagree with the age being so slow but the main problem is that the brain is still developing and it can create irreversible effects. The brain is affected in two major parts. The two parts are the hippocampus and the prefrontal lobe. These two parts of your brain are responsible for memory, language, impulse control, learning and judgement. This means that when you are consuming alcohol when …show more content…
The thing is that only a small amount of irresponsible drinkers at the age of 18 is very low, as many 18 year olds are responsible enough for how much they drink. There is no point of taking away the privilege of drinking at the age of 18 as only a small portion of 18 year olds heavily drink and or irresponsibly drink. Taking away this privilege of being able to drink at the age of 18 shows that we doubt their