Drinking Age Pros And Cons

Drinking Age

The drinking age debate has been going on for a vast number of years. The drinking age debate is not something new that has been argued, 190 countries all over the world have tried to lower or higher the minimum drinking age. The United States minimum drinking age is 21,but there's a lot of different countries some have at 15,18 and others have no minimum drinking age. Statistics show that 75-80% of people involved in felony crimes or in serious misdemeanors where under the influence. The minimum drinking in Iceland, Japan, Paraguay, Thailand, Uzbekistan is 20. In Antigua, Barbuda, and Central African Republic the minimum drinking age is 10-15. In 116 countries such as Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, and Brazil the minimum

drinking age is 18-19 years old. In 20 countries such as Portugal, Denmark, Germany, and Spain the minimum drinking age is 16-17 years old. In Cameroon, Bolivia, and China there's no minimum drinking age in those countries. In Iraq, U.S, Samoa the minimum drinking age is 21. The European countries their minimum drinking age varies a lot from 18 and lower. “In the 1970s research shows that more than half of the states lowered the drinking age from 21 to 20,19, or 18.” (It's time to lower the drinking age).
Studies show that “roughly 65% of college students between ages of 18-22 drink alcohol in any given month (CNN). People between ages of 17-22 are probably the one the drink the most the U.S doesn't want to change their minimum drinking age. If at 18 years you can go to jail, buy cigarettes, and vote why shouldn’t they lower the drinking age. Scientists studies show that “Teenage years are one of the most important times for the brain to develop, Neurons in the brain are growing and strengthening, connections are developing to allow the brain to transmit information faster and allow the brain to process more complex thought's, and the brain goes through a kind of pruning process to eliminates synapses that are infrequently used.” (21 science limits when it comes to drinking age).
Drunk Driving is something a lot of teenagers do when you drink and drive your vision changes alcohol affects the peripheral vision. Many potential hazards of the road do not appear directly in front of the driver but, rather come from the side. When you're driving and are under the influence many things come to you super slow and fast, you could skip a traffic light and could cause an accident and hurt people either with you in the car or people in the car you crash into. If a cop stops you while drunk driving they will give you a DWI that goes on your record and can affect you in many ways it could affect you when you apply for college and for a job. That DWI carries on with you forever it will be in your record and you can't take it off so next time you drink just think ahead and don't drive. Our northern neighbor Canada has the drinking age at 18 or 19 depending on the province, Canada has lowered their drinking, Canada usually has the same drinking age as our southern neighbor Mexico, Mexico set the drinking age at 18. Lowering thedrinking age could also bring a lot of problems to the government, how? Parents wouldn't agree with it, parents would protest against the government, but a lot of teens on the other hand would actually be happy, cheering, and dancing the only bad part about lowering the drinking age or picking it up is that if you lower it a lot of teen would be driving under the influence also there would be more crimes more accidents, they could also provide alcohol to minors etc. If they higher the drinking age a vast number of teens and some college students would be consuming alcohol illegally in every party you either college or high school there's always going to be alcohol no matter what.

They are young teens still developing not know what they want not knowing what good from bad and these is only in the U.S, imagine in all the other countries. Mexico’s drinking age is set at 18 years old so what a lot of teens do that are from the U.S they go to Mexico just to consume alcohol and that's been a really bad problem for the U.S because many U.S citizens have lost their life's over there they have lost friends or even family members just because of alcohol. In Cancun there's been many cases of people between the ages of 18-24 that have lost their life's due to alcohol some were either drinking having a good time with friends and got kidnapped and wouldn't appear till the next day dead, other would either just get intoxicated with alcohol and do things they would remember. Most of these things would happen to girls who would get drunk (Minimum legal drinking age). The thing is that our teens think otherwise, our teens think that just because they can vote go to jail and buy cigarettes, they think they're on top of the world and they can do anything they want. In Canada the alcohol limit to drink

and drive is 80 milligrams, in Mexico it's not illegal to drive under the influence, but if you get stopped you will be detained for a period of 36 hours. Canada is rated one of the most dangerous places when coming to drinking and driving. In 2017 police reported to have 72,039 accidents, 3,000 involved drugs, but 19 involved in alcohol 7 were instantly deaths and 12 were bloody harm (drinking in 190 countries). In Iraq they had to vote to provide alcohol, but as of today the banned alcohol in Iraq as a surprise vote no one can sell it. In Colombia you can only have 40 milligrams of alcohol per 100ml of blood in your body to be able to drive while under the influence, if you get caught you will get detained for 48 hours and have to pay a fine. In Chile its 30 milligrams of alcohol per 100ml of blood in your body to be able to drive while under the influence. In Italy and Malta the drinking there is set at 16 years old, the only thing is that in Italy and Malta they've had so many cases of teens drinking and driving also teens losing life's and a crazy amount of accidents more than half related to alcohol. In the United Kingdom you can drink at age 15 or 16 but the alcohol has to be brought by and adult and you can only drink it with a meal at 18 you can drink by yourself but the alcohol once again has to be provided by an adult you can't buy alcohol at 18 but you don't have to drink it with a meal at 18. In the United Kingdom you can drink and drive with 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100ml of blood in your body. If your stopped for drinking and driving and are passed those numbers you will be fine and detained for 48 hours. In Spain if your under 18 you can drink alcohol but you just can't buy (45 states that allow under age drinking). In Spain they’re more strict with drinking and driving you can only have 0.5 milligrams of alcohol per 100ml of blood in your body so you basically can't take a sip of a beer. If you're stopped for drinking and driving and are passed those numbers you will be fined and detained for 48 hours. Spain is very low on drinking and driving accidents they usually don't have many accidents on drinking and driving. Afghanistan is one of the 16 countries where there's no minimum drinking age they can drink at any age. Most people in Afghanistan consume alcohol with their meals, because it's tradition. In France you can consume alcohol at 16 but can't buy it, it has to be provided by an adult, but at 18 you can buy it. France has very strict laws just like in Spain only 0.5 milligrams of alcohol per 100ml of blood in your body. In Egypt you can drink and buy beer at 18, and at 21 years old you can buy wines and spirits. In Egypt they don't sell alcohol in public places which would be like hotels, malls, and movie theater. In Egypt you can only have 50 milligrams of alcohol per 100ml of blood in your body. In Japan the minimum drinking age is set at 20 years old and also smoking is set at 20 years old. In Japan you can only have 0.3 milligrams of alcohol per 100ml of blood in your body. If you're stopped for drinking and driving you will be detained for 38 hours and will be fined the fine is about 1,000 yen. China sets their minimum drinking age at 18 years old in China at 18 you can buy and drink alcohol but it's illegal to provide it to minors. In China drinking and driving is more strict in the way that you can have from 0.3-0.8 milligrams of alcohol per 100ml of blood in your body. If you're stopped and are passed those numbers you will be detained for 36 hours a fine that varies from 200-2,000 you can also lose you license from 3 months to a year. The thing is now a days or teens think they are on top of the world and they think they can take over the world so just be careful (top reason).