Have you ever wondered how eighteen year old men and women are allowed to get married, vote, and fight in the army and are not permitted to drink alcohol? Or how under aged drinkers continue to illegally strive for this “forbidden fruit”? Or lastly how more than half the world can obtain alcohol at eighteen years of age and Americans cannot? These are just a few questions that arise in those who believe the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. The United States Legislature should lower the drinking age and live up to its beliefs and what it stands for, freedom. In the United States, eighteen year old men and women are assumed the adulthood rights to obtain cigarettes, get married, vote, sign contracts, become a subject to be inducted
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The majority of people state that teenagers do not fully mature until they are twenty one; therefore, they will not distinguish the ability to responsibly drink. In the realm of life, teenagers will continue to drink no matter what, thus causing inappropriate, unlawful behavior in dangerous areas striving to obtain the “forbidden fruit” (“18 Interesting Pro Lowering the Drinking Age Statistics”). In response, the experienced leaders of our communities should rightly inform us on the duties of a conscientiously drinking. For example, in 2008, an organization composed of presidents of colleges and universities put forth the Amethyst Initiative (Daniloff, Caleb). Robert A. Brown, Boston University president, is one of the members of this group (Daniloff, Caleb). “The Amethyst Initiative proposes that by lowering the drinking age, colleges will be better able to generate awareness of the risk of excessive alcohol use,” Brown states (Daniloff, Caleb). Many other professionals such as he believe that lowering the drinking age would allow an increase in the ability of teenagers to drink in legal and safe areas easily surrounded by those of authority, lessening the criminal drunk driving rates (Daniloff, Caleb). If people at the age of eighteen are allowed to consume alcohol, they will feel a sense of adulthood as
The majority of people state that teenagers do not fully mature until they are twenty one; therefore, they will not distinguish the ability to responsibly drink. In the realm of life, teenagers will continue to drink no matter what, thus causing inappropriate, unlawful behavior in dangerous areas striving to obtain the “forbidden fruit” (“18 Interesting Pro Lowering the Drinking Age Statistics”). In response, the experienced leaders of our communities should rightly inform us on the duties of a conscientiously drinking. For example, in 2008, an organization composed of presidents of colleges and universities put forth the Amethyst Initiative (Daniloff, Caleb). Robert A. Brown, Boston University president, is one of the members of this group (Daniloff, Caleb). “The Amethyst Initiative proposes that by lowering the drinking age, colleges will be better able to generate awareness of the risk of excessive alcohol use,” Brown states (Daniloff, Caleb). Many other professionals such as he believe that lowering the drinking age would allow an increase in the ability of teenagers to drink in legal and safe areas easily surrounded by those of authority, lessening the criminal drunk driving rates (Daniloff, Caleb). If people at the age of eighteen are allowed to consume alcohol, they will feel a sense of adulthood as