When an American turns eighteen they are given all the rights of a legal adult except one: drinking. The age to drink legally in the United States is twenty-one which prohibits a group of adults from purchasing or consuming alcohol. As a nation, prohibition legislation has been tried twice in the past for controlling irresponsible drinking problems, during the National Prohibition in the 1920's and state prohibition in 1850's. Because they were unenforceable and because the backlash towards them caused other social problems, these laws were finally repealed. Prohibition did not work then and prohibition for young people under the age of twenty-one is not working now. The drinking age should be lowered to eighteen because that is the age of a legal adult, it is not constitutionally correct to set the drinking age at the federal level, and because it will cut the numbers in binge drinking.
             At age eighteen the government feels that you are responsible enough to vote, serve on a jury, live on your own, drive, smoke, buy weapons, go to an adult prison, get married without parental consent, and go to war. If the government feels eighteen year olds are responsible enough to make these important life decisions, then they should show confidence for young adults to act mature when it comes to drinking. Society must not look to punish and restrict alcohol but they should promote and accept drinking among young adults because they should be treated like the adults that they are. With all of the responsibilities and privileges that minors have, it is unfathomable why they should not be aloud to drink.
             The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." There is no clause in the Constitution, which gives the federal g
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