This essay argues that the legal age to drink in the U.S. is to low. It supports this with explaining how it would help binge drinking, and gives examples.
Title: This essay argues that the legal age to drink in the U.S. is to low. It supports this with explaining how it would help binge drinking, and gives examples.
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 884 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
This essay argues that the legal age to drink in the U.S. is to low. It supports this with explaining how it would help binge drinking, and gives examples.
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 884 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
One of the most controversial debates facing the federal government is whether to lower the age for legal drinking of alcohol by an individual. Nationwide, the legal age to drink alcohol is 21. In 1987, The Minimum Legal Drinking Age Law was passed to "make it illegal for any person who is less than 21 years old to either purchase, possess, or consume alcohol beverages or to misrepresent their age to obtain such beverages" (Policy and legislation, 1996). That …showed first 75 words of 884 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 884 total…who choose to consume alcoholic beverages. We should change the law to allow 18 year olds to enjoy all benefits of being an adult and legally punish those that are irresponsible drinkers just as we punish those who go against other laws.
<Tab/>Make up our minds, but be consistent. Make being an adult one age. Give them all benefits and responsibilities that go along with being an adult.
Just be consistent.