Why Drinking Age Should Be Lowered

Why the drinking age should be lowered

In my last essay, I talked about the drinking age and if it should be lowered raised or kept the same. By the time, I finished doing the essay I concluded that it should be lowered. I think it should be lowered because at 18 your considered an adult and your able to get married join the army and vote. The earlier the drinking age the better because keeping it at 21 will increase the desire for the forbidden fruit, and when teens turn the legal age they will drink heavy. Also 21 being the legal age of maturity is absurd because somebody turning 21 doesn’t mean that they are mature enough to consume alcohol in a responsible way. In 1984 Congress passed the National Minimum Purchase Act. The law was passed to urge states to change their legal drinking age to 21. Congress assumed that if they raised the legal drinking age it would save a lot of lives. They believed that 21-year old’s stood more mature than an 18-year-old. I personally believe that was a big mistake,

That a pretty big question, well there are a couple reasons why, peer pressure, leisure but the main reason is “breaking the law” according to research 87% of high school seniors have drank alcohol. Which means that a big portion of teens below the age of seventeen to eighteen have consumed alcohol. The feel that teens get when breaking the law is huge. Being rebellious and not following the rules is a important role in a teens life. Preventing 18-20 year olds to drink will only push them to do it unsupervised “therefore possibly harming themselves with dangerous consequences”. Letting young adults consume alcohol will help them get experience based on their firsthand experiences of what they saw, or what they were told or advised to drink alcohol more responsibly and maturely. By restricting young 18-20 year old’s from drinking even though they are considered “adults” will lead to drinking