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Although an 18-year-old is regarded as an adult in the United States and having the right to vote, buy a lottery ticket, a pack of cigarettes, get a tattoo, and join the army, they do not have the legal right to buy and consume alcohol. So, in this essay, I am going to explain why Minimum Legal Drinking Age should not be reduced to 18 because</p></div><div class="columns large-2-5 position-relative show-for-large card-grade-essay-words-col"><ul><li>738 Words</li><li>3 Pages</li></ul></div><div class="columns large-2-5 show-for-large position-relative card-grade-essay-grade-col grade-decent-essays"><div><span>Decent Essays</span></div></div><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-2-5 position-relative card-grade-essay-button-col"><a class="button text-m " href="/essay/The-Minimum-Legal-Drinking-Age-FC7CH33FUR">Preview</a></div></div></li><li><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-12 card box-shadow card-grade-essay"><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 hide-for-large position-relative card-grade-essay-grade-col grade-good-essays"><div><span>Good Essays</span></div></div><div class="columns small-4 medium-2 position-relative card-grade-essay-placeholder-col"><a href="/essay/Minimum-Legal-Drinking-Age-PCCYBMBYXT"><img src="//assets.bartleby.com/1.17/images/placeholders/default_paper_6.png" width="100%"/></a></div><div class="columns small-8 medium-10 position-relative hide-for-large card-grade-essay-words-col"><a href="/essay/Minimum-Legal-Drinking-Age-PCCYBMBYXT" class="hide-for-large"><h2 class="heading-s weight-700 brand-secondary">Minimum Legal Drinking Age</h2></a><ul><li>1862 Words</li><li>8 Pages</li></ul></div><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-7 position-relative"><div class="card-grade-essay-preview-col show-for-large"><a href="/essay/Minimum-Legal-Drinking-Age-PCCYBMBYXT" class="show-for-large"><h2 class="heading-m weight-700 brand-secondary">Minimum Legal Drinking Age</h2></a></div><p class="text-m break-word word-break text-ellipsis-after">Young adults drinking under the age of 21 only has negative impacts on today’s society and will only get worse by lowering the minimum legal drinking age. Currently, the legal drinking age in the United States is 21 years old and it should stay that way. Reason being, that only positive results have come from making the minimum legal drinking age 21. These positive results include lower costs, less alcohol-related car crashes, and avoiding other dangers like unwanted pregnancy and young adults</p></div><div class="columns large-2-5 position-relative show-for-large card-grade-essay-words-col"><ul><li>1862 Words</li><li>8 Pages</li></ul></div><div class="columns large-2-5 show-for-large position-relative card-grade-essay-grade-col grade-good-essays"><div><span>Good Essays</span></div></div><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-2-5 position-relative card-grade-essay-button-col"><a class="button text-m " href="/essay/Minimum-Legal-Drinking-Age-PCCYBMBYXT">Preview</a></div></div></li><li><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-12 card box-shadow card-grade-essay"><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 hide-for-large position-relative card-grade-essay-grade-col grade-decent-essays"><div><span>Decent Essays</span></div></div><div class="columns small-4 medium-2 position-relative card-grade-essay-placeholder-col"><a href="/essay/Lowering-The-Legal-Drinking-Age-PKESCQKVG5YQ"><img src="//assets.bartleby.com/1.17/images/placeholders/default_paper_6.png" width="100%"/></a></div><div class="columns small-8 medium-10 position-relative hide-for-large card-grade-essay-words-col"><a href="/essay/Lowering-The-Legal-Drinking-Age-PKESCQKVG5YQ" class="hide-for-large"><h2 class="heading-s weight-700 brand-secondary">Lowering The Legal Drinking Age</h2></a><ul><li>857 Words</li><li>4 Pages</li></ul></div><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-7 position-relative"><div class="card-grade-essay-preview-col show-for-large"><a href="/essay/Lowering-The-Legal-Drinking-Age-PKESCQKVG5YQ" class="show-for-large"><h2 class="heading-m weight-700 brand-secondary">Lowering The Legal Drinking Age</h2></a></div><p class="text-m break-word word-break text-ellipsis-after">As we know, the United States has the highest drinking age in the world. By 1988 the entire U.S had adopted the Federal Uniform Drinking Age Act, which set the drinking age to twenty-one. However, in 1920 the United States banned the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcohol. This era known as the Prohibition sparked the popularity of hidden underground bars and events. The Prohibition Era is a prime example of how people did anything to intake alcohol and eventually this led</p></div><div class="columns large-2-5 position-relative show-for-large card-grade-essay-words-col"><ul><li>857 Words</li><li>4 Pages</li></ul></div><div class="columns large-2-5 show-for-large position-relative card-grade-essay-grade-col grade-decent-essays"><div><span>Decent Essays</span></div></div><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-2-5 position-relative card-grade-essay-button-col"><a class="button text-m " href="/essay/Lowering-The-Legal-Drinking-Age-PKESCQKVG5YQ">Preview</a></div></div></li><li><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-12 card box-shadow card-grade-essay"><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 hide-for-large position-relative card-grade-essay-grade-col grade-decent-essays"><div><span>Decent Essays</span></div></div><div class="columns small-4 medium-2 position-relative card-grade-essay-placeholder-col"><a href="/essay/Increase-in-the-Legal-Drinking-Age-FKNF6J94C8M6S"><img src="//assets.bartleby.com/1.17/images/placeholders/default_paper_6.png" width="100%"/></a></div><div class="columns small-8 medium-10 position-relative hide-for-large card-grade-essay-words-col"><a href="/essay/Increase-in-the-Legal-Drinking-Age-FKNF6J94C8M6S" class="hide-for-large"><h2 class="heading-s weight-700 brand-secondary">Increase in the Legal Drinking Age</h2></a><ul><li>870 Words</li><li>3 Pages</li></ul></div><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-7 position-relative"><div class="card-grade-essay-preview-col show-for-large"><a href="/essay/Increase-in-the-Legal-Drinking-Age-FKNF6J94C8M6S" class="show-for-large"><h2 class="heading-m weight-700 brand-secondary">Increase in the Legal Drinking Age</h2></a></div><p class="text-m break-word word-break text-ellipsis-after">Another reason why the legal drinking age was changed is because of the fact that the adolescent brain is not fully developed; it is supposed that “excessive alcohol intake causes brain damage” in teens. However, in order for damage to occur, the drinking has to be extremely excessive. If there are only a few of these extreme bingeing “episodes,” they do no harm to the adolescent brain (Minimum Drinking Age). David J. Hanson, a professor at the University of New York at Potsdam, states, “There’s</p></div><div class="columns large-2-5 position-relative show-for-large card-grade-essay-words-col"><ul><li>870 Words</li><li>3 Pages</li></ul></div><div class="columns large-2-5 show-for-large position-relative card-grade-essay-grade-col grade-decent-essays"><div><span>Decent Essays</span></div></div><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-2-5 position-relative card-grade-essay-button-col"><a class="button text-m " href="/essay/Increase-in-the-Legal-Drinking-Age-FKNF6J94C8M6S">Preview</a></div></div></li><li><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-12 card box-shadow card-grade-essay"><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 hide-for-large position-relative card-grade-essay-grade-col grade-better-essays"><div><span>Better Essays</span></div></div><div class="columns small-4 medium-2 position-relative card-grade-essay-placeholder-col"><a href="/essay/Binge-Drinking-And-The-Minimum-Legal-Drinking-F3E522LCFL95"><img src="//assets.bartleby.com/1.17/images/placeholders/default_paper_6.png" width="100%"/></a></div><div class="columns small-8 medium-10 position-relative hide-for-large card-grade-essay-words-col"><a href="/essay/Binge-Drinking-And-The-Minimum-Legal-Drinking-F3E522LCFL95" class="hide-for-large"><h2 class="heading-s weight-700 brand-secondary">Binge Drinking And The Minimum Legal Drinking Age</h2></a><ul><li>3264 Words</li><li>14 Pages</li></ul></div><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-7 position-relative"><div class="card-grade-essay-preview-col show-for-large"><a href="/essay/Binge-Drinking-And-The-Minimum-Legal-Drinking-F3E522LCFL95" class="show-for-large"><h2 class="heading-m weight-700 brand-secondary">Binge Drinking And The Minimum Legal Drinking Age</h2></a></div><p class="text-m break-word word-break text-ellipsis-after">Karzhova Marina Erin Beaver English Composition II 5 November 2014 Binge Drinking and the Minimum Legal Drinking Age In the year 1984, President Ronald Reagan enacted a law that increased the minimum drinking Age all U.S states to 21 years. As a result, it is believed that the mortality rates due to road accidents reduced from 5,000 in the 80’s to 2, 000 in 2005 (Dean-Mooney). However, the issue of binge drinking remains unsolved with learning institutions having to deal with it every semester. In</p></div><div class="columns large-2-5 position-relative show-for-large card-grade-essay-words-col"><ul><li>3264 Words</li><li>14 Pages</li></ul></div><div class="columns large-2-5 show-for-large position-relative card-grade-essay-grade-col grade-better-essays"><div><span>Better Essays</span></div></div><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-2-5 position-relative card-grade-essay-button-col"><a class="button text-m " href="/essay/Binge-Drinking-And-The-Minimum-Legal-Drinking-F3E522LCFL95">Preview</a></div></div></li><li><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-12 card box-shadow card-grade-essay"><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 hide-for-large position-relative card-grade-essay-grade-col grade-decent-essays"><div><span>Decent Essays</span></div></div><div class="columns small-4 medium-2 position-relative card-grade-essay-placeholder-col"><a href="/essay/The-Legal-Drinking-Age-Should-Be-Lowered-F3KYCCFKTG5YW"><img src="//assets.bartleby.com/1.17/images/placeholders/default_paper_6.png" width="100%"/></a></div><div class="columns small-8 medium-10 position-relative hide-for-large card-grade-essay-words-col"><a href="/essay/The-Legal-Drinking-Age-Should-Be-Lowered-F3KYCCFKTG5YW" class="hide-for-large"><h2 class="heading-s weight-700 brand-secondary">The Legal Drinking Age Should Be Lowered</h2></a><ul><li>955 Words</li><li>4 Pages</li></ul></div><div class="columns small-12 medium-12 large-7 position-relative"><div class="card-grade-essay-preview-col show-for-large"><a href="/essay/The-Legal-Drinking-Age-Should-Be-Lowered-F3KYCCFKTG5YW" class="show-for-large"><h2 class="heading-m weight-700 brand-secondary">The Legal Drinking Age Should Be Lowered</h2></a></div><p class="text-m break-word word-break text-ellipsis-after">In the United States of America, the National Government requires the states to enforce a legal drinking age of twenty-one. Where as the world average drinking age is eighteen, and in some Countries it is even lower where it is possible to get a beer at sixteen years of age. Taking that into consideration, there is a great deal of controversy in the United States on what the legal age should be to purchase and consume an alcoholic beverage. 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The legal drinking age has been an ongoing controversy for decades, consisting of people who are for lowering, raising, or keeping the age with multiple reasons behind each side. It is commonly known that consuming alcohol can have life-threatening effects on the human body, but these effects can be much harsher at a younger age. Reducing the age for eighteen year olds may result in senseless acts from the drug. 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This raises the question, “Why can you fight and die for your country but not be old enough to drink?” I am going to agree with this statement, if you are legally an adult by 18 then why shouldn’t you be able to make your own decisions? 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It’s medically irresponsible to do under-age drinking, it’s actually medically irresponsible to do it at all. If we would lower the legal drinking age the amount of car crashes would increase. 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