Drinking Age

Kirill Kurtsev
ESLG 0630-02

The United States Must Lower the Drinking Age.

  Everyone knows that it is illegal to consume alcohol until the age of 21 in the United States. Many people are in agreement with this legal restriction. Some would even say that it should be raised. However, the legal drinking age sometimes causes more problems then it prevents. I am here today to persuade you that drinking age limit should be lowered.
  It is necessary to question this law. Why is 21 the “magical” age that makes one intelligent and mature enough to consume alcohol? Why not 18 or 35 or 40? I think it is a problem to have a limit higher then the age of maturity.
  When people are considered adults, that means they are responsible for all their actions, and it’s their right to choose when drink and when don’t. It is unfair to people that they can marry each other since they are 18, but they can have a traditional wedding ceremony once they will turn 21. By the way, have you ever imagine your own wedding without alcohol?
    There are a lot of things like that, people can vote, have children, pay taxes, drive cars, to own homes, fly planes, risk their lives in the armed forces and to be financially and socially independent, and yet to be legally prohibited from drinking a glass of wine in a restaurant. I think it is unfair to have a limit higher then the age of maturity.
  In other countries around the world if you are under the age of 21 you can drink alcohol. Some countries don't even have an age limit, but in America you have to be 21 to buy alcohol. One of the main causes of the drinking age being set to 21 was teenagers were getting into car accidents after getting drunk. I am not saying driving under the influence should be legal. What I am saying is there should be more government programs to educate and prevent people from driving intoxicated, rather than raise the drinking age.
  More and more people under the age of 21 are experiencing...