Benefits Of Lowering The Drinking Age

What is the right Drinking Age?
It’s a well known fact that in America the legal age to drink is 21, but if you ask most people under 21, they will say they have consumed some type of alcoholic drink. While many have different opinions on what the legal age should be, its quite clear that there is backlash in any decision made. For this paper I looked at one op-ed written by Zapoliski which came from the New York Times, she argued that the drinking age should be kept at 21. The second op-ed I looked at was written by Glaser in the New York Times, she argues that the drinking age should be lowered to 18 and enforced more. Although both op-eds were very compelling I found that Zapolski’s article in the New York times is more compelling as to why the

In Glaser’s op-ed, who is for lowering the drinking age to 18, she states that the current law hasn’t reduced underage drinking, but merely driven it underground to riskier settings. The 21 drinking age law has created more dangerous drinking habits in the youth such as binge drinking, which is consuming excessive amounts of alcohol in a short period of time. Binge drinking is most likely seen around college campuses where frat houses have massive amounts of liquor and with no parent supervision, and practically no police enforcement college students are exposed to dangerous drinking. This type of drinking can be seen on a smaller scale at high school parties, but this segregation of ages teaches to kids to binge drink rather than to drink in moderation. Glaser (2015), also stated that the current laws in place have lowered traffic deaths from young people drinking and driving, yet this is still outweighed by the number