Does Age Really Matter
"Prohibition makes you want to cry in your beer, and denies you the beer to cry into." This quote by Don Marquis conveys how a large majority of teenagers, as well as people of legal drinking age, feel about the laws prohibiting alcohol to people under twenty-one. These people want the legal drinking age lowered from twenty-one to eighteen. They feel like, if a person is old enough to vote and fight for their country, then they should be able to have an alcoholic beverage if they choose. Opposers to this ideal think that the law should stay as it is because they feel that people under twenty-one are not mature enough to drink responsibly. I have taken the side of the opposers. The legal drinking age should not be anything but twenty-one and older. Seventy percent of all teenagers drink alcohol [First Eagle], which they have no business doing. They don't know how to drink responsibly and they don't know why it is people drink. They drink in order to get buzzed or drunk, instead of drinking for the flavor of the alcohol. A drin
What they are really doing is ruining their livers and damaging brain cells, quite a few have died because of binge drinking also. If students and teens still drink a lot without being able to legally buy alcohol, imagine how they would act if it were legal. These laws have saved an estimated 18,220 lives since 1975 (NHTSA, 1999)[MADD]. It takes one hour for one drink to pass through your system. A lot of underage drinkers usually end up sick, passed out, and hung over. Then the effects kick in and they think everything is fine because they're having a good time and all of a sudden, they're not feeling well. Underage drinkers also tend to become rowdy and even violent. The law has the age at twenty-one for reasons that are too strong to refute, just like I mention above. One that I will share is what happened to my twenty year old brother (then nineteen) and a few of his friends.
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