I think that the drinking age for beer, wine, and other low-alcohol content drinks should be 18. However, once you get into hard liquor, it should definitely be 21.
Well there is the, you can die and kill for your country but you can't have a beer afterward, argument. You are legally an adult at 18 but you aren't adult enough for alcohol. I don't get why 21 is the magic number.
Over here in England its 18 and I started drinking at 11 going to pubs at 15. By 18 to be honest the fanatism had gone away and only recently have I started drinking regularly again. I dont have any statistics but I'm lead to believe that we have less drinking related accidents than america per person. I think this does have a lot to do with the fact we have a lower age, so we are younger to experience it and cant do as much damage.
The more people are told no, the more they want to rebel.
Just because a person becomes an adult doesn't mean that everything becomes legal. The argument that "adult age should be drinking age" assumes that drinking is some sort adult right, but is it, really?
Man I'm lucky our country doesn't have any Drinking Age...I got my 1st taste of liquor when I was 12 and then my drinking spree peaked when I was 18. Got tired of it when I was 20 and now I drink very seldom at the age of 23.
Yet taken in normal dosages it doesnt.You then try to argue they'll drink&drive.
Well what the fuck is a normal dosage. Research shows that one average gulp of Beer (i am sure you can imagine what an average gulp would be) kills as many as 1000 brain cells. Sure, we have trillions, but that is still damaging and it adds up, especially when people are drinking 3, 4, 5, 6, and more beers when they go out.
Also, drinking and driving are a serious issue. Most likely after going to a bar most people are to hammered to use logic, so they drive them selves home. More than 140,000 Americans alone die each year from drunk driving.
Why can`t we drink from 16 ay??? It`s our choice not other people... It`s our kidneys, we can`t do what we want with them...
Yes but here's why: This is all applied to D.R.
ages 15-20 are the ages where teens are the wildest and cr5aziest and bound to be the most immature about adult things, including beer. If they were to drink, they would go crazy and have to much of it. Then more often then not they would go out and have a D.R. Now i know you're going to pull the old jackass statement of "it's our choice", but the thing is, half the time when people die from drunk driving, it's not the actually drunk person. Often it's the other innocent cars involved in the crash have deaths. So if other people besides the drunk person are going to be dieing because of a 16 year old's impaired actions, it can not be tolerated. that is why it is at 21, because that is when people get there adult maturity, and [i]most[/] of them realizes they have to maintain themselves.
BTW: Each year 46,000 teens die while driving, over half the time it is from alcohol.
I beleive the Drinking age is good were it is. I mean, yes maybe some people should be able to drink when they are 21, but most people who wait to drink at 21 are mature drinkers from the start. If you have people drinking at 18 or younger, they learn to hide their drinking by making sure they don't drive home drunk (so they dont get caught), they normally have friends around to help them if they drink too much, and they don't drink as often because theres too many people around the beers.
There will always be people drinking under the age of 18, and though it may seem as if we might as well lower the drinking age, its bypassing the law that teachers kids to drink more responsably and keeps them off the roads.
Too bad the highest killer of teens in the U.S. is car accidents, most of which occur while drunk. If it became legal, these incidents would most likely go up. More and more people would become reckless and not think about their actions.
At the time of Alchohol prohibition, and speakeasies, the consumption of alchohol went UP. Teens are attracted to danger. many of them drink at 16, im sure some of them wouldnt if it was permitted.
i think it should stay the same as some people already abuse the rule and drink at `8......if they pass law will some people start drinking at 15? or 13?
