The Benefits Of Underage Drinking

Last fall, a group of over 100 college presidents including the heads of Dartmouth, Virginia Tech- signed a declaration starting that 21-year-old drinking age is not working, and fireworks went off. But the college president got what they wanted: a national debate about the drinking age. When the age was raised to 21 in the mid-1980s. the goal was to reduce highway fatalities, But everyone knows that the 21 age limit hasn’t stopped minors for drinking.

Now some experts believe it’s actually contributing to an increase in extreme during. This is what the former president Middlebury college in Vermont, John McCardell , believes and its why he started the movement dedicated to lowering to age to 18.It may seem counterintuitive, but the argues

Yet there are still people who think the drinking age should be lowered, or even if not, underage drinking just isn’t that big deal. Underage drinking should not be a foregone conclusion. We owe it to our kids and to the futures to do everything in our power to keep them health and safe. The human brains continues to grow into a person’s early 20s: Drinking alcohol during that the time can damage short and long term brain growth and that damage can be permanent. It’s not just heavy drinking that can have an impact teens who drink half as much alcohol as adults can still suffer the same negative effects. Teen are most likely to suffer blackouts, memory loss, and alcohol poisoning from drinking, as well as to cause damage to their ability to remember things in the future All parts of the growing brain are impacted negatively by alcohol, but the memory functions is specially hard it. Lower the drinking age back to 18. The decision of Dartmouth College to ban hard liquor on campus has rekindled a debate about 21 year old drinking age, Dartmouth is heading in the wrong direction. Instead policymakers should be following the advice of about 150 universities and college presidents who signed the Amethyst Initiative and advocate for the choose Responsibility proposal and reduce the drinking age back to 18. When coming to of age in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the drinking age was 18. During our crucial senior year high school, most students were law fully able to drink beer, wine and hard alcohol. Kegs of beers were commonly served at dances, proms, and graduation events were parents and proctors were present. When entering Cornell University, the president of the university Frank Rhodes, invited freshmen to a reception that served champagne and strawberries on the Terrance if his spectacular home overlooking the campus and Cayuga