Drinking Age

The controversy of what age you should legally be allowed to drink alcohol has been a very controversial issue for a very long time. All 50 of the states in the United States have in law that no one under the age of twenty one is allowed to drink but there are minor exceptions in some states like if you are under parental supervision, at home, or it is for a medical purpose. In twenty nine states if you drink underage privately with parental consent it is allowed. In thirty states you are allowed to drink for religious purposes. In thirteen states you are allowed to drink for educational purposes. People who want the age to be lowered say that having in law that you can't drink until you are twenty one only makes drinking look even cooler and pushes drinking into private and not as controlled environments leading to more health and life endangering behaviors. People who oppose lowering the minimum drinking age from twenty one say that teens can not handle the responsibility of alcohol and that they are more likely to harm or even kill someone by drinking before they are twenty one. They back this up with the fact that traffic fatalities decreased when the MLDA increased. I think the drinking age should not be lowered because there is not reason for it. All that drinking does is lead to some kind of problem. There is no real benefit to drinking. It can lead to alcoholism, death from diseases, and drunkenness which leads to a lot more problems. If the age was lowered I think America would be in an even bigger mess then what we are in now. So, I think the age should stay the same.

Sources:
http://drinkingage.procon.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nj_ayQtv7I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qQzYUZ_MNU&feature=related