18 vs. 21: Drinking Age

Why do people only want to change the drinking age from 21 to 18, when there are other activities that have limit of age such as marriage at 18, driving at 16 and 35 to be a president? Alcohol plays a major role in today society, which becomes a controversial issue among teens. Alcohol is a mind-altering chemical that is potentially more dangerous than any other drug and can be very destructive. For past few years, many people are trying to lower the drinking age without knowing the negative effects of alcohol and how lowering drinking age would harm our communities. Underage drinking is a serious problem for teenagers in the United States. In 1984 the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed by the federal government, which required all the states to raise their drinking age back to 21. According to the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that 21 law has lowered the number of accident and has saved 23,733 lives. Underage alcohol use is more likely to kill young people than all illicit drugs combined In the article, “There’s no benefit in lowering the drinking age,” by Robert Voas try to persuade the reader that lowering the drinking age can be dangerous for the teens . I agree with Voas statement because we should not lower the drinking age to 18 because drinking at underage harm brain development, leads to binge drinking, and increases fatal accidents.

First of all, lowering the drinking age will harm teen’s brains development. Many teenagers are still developing their brain at the age of 18 and are not able to make the right decisions. The human brain is like a sponge, which absorbs all the knowledge that we learn. Furthermore; alcohol interferes with our brain and have long lasting effects on the int...

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...was responsible for the death of the women and boy. His irresponsibility had killed 2 people and cost their lives. Therefore I believe there are other cases which involves teens and their behaviors and that explains we should not lower the drinking age.

In short, the United State's minimum drinking age should remain twenty-one years old. In today's youth binge drinking is increasing dramatically and engage in behaviors that they wouldn't have done if they didn’t drink. Teens brains are not developed at the age of 18, so it really hard for them to make the right decision for them, especially when they are drunk. Also, there are higher chances of getting into a fatal accident if we lower the drinking age. I suggest of not lowering the drinking age because it will eventually help our community and save a lot lives. Drinking is not worth killing yourself.