In the State of California, the legal drinking age for all Cities is 21 years of age. The drinking age is 21 because the powers that control our government decided that when one becomes 21, one is magically transformed into a responsible person capable of handling the burden that comes with the right to consume alcohol. The drinking age is too high in this country. Why enact laws to prohibit an act that will be ignored by many …showed first 75 words of 645 total…

…showed last 75 words of 645 total…would know how to imbibe without excess. Obviously then the law is not working. Why keep a law that cannot be enforced? If the repercussions from the act of breaking the law are few and light, why retain the law at all? The legal drinking age in the United States must be lowered now. If young people in other countries can handle the responsibility of drinking, why can't it be the same for our country?