1) INCONSISTENT/UNFAIR/ARBITRARY DEFINITIONS OF “RESPONSIBLE ADULT”:
18-year-olds can vote and serve on juries. 18-year-olds can get married and have children. 18-year-olds can go to war and die for their country. Yet 18-year-olds can not legally enjoy a beer or a glass of wine?!?
2) MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR EDUCATION – PART 1:
Senior year of High School (particularly prom season) is a perfect time to educate students about responsible drinking and the dangers of irresponsible drinking (drunk-driving, binge-drinking / alcohol poisoning, date-rape, etc.), yet parents and teachers are unable to do so because they would be acknowledging and condoning underage drinking, which is against the law.
3) MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR EDUCATION – PART 2:
Freshman year of college (particularly College Orientation week) is a perfect time to educate students about responsible drinking and the dangers of irresponsible drinking (drunk-driving, binge-drinking / alcohol poisoning, date-rape, etc.), yet college Faculty, Staff, and Campus Administrators are unable to do so because they would be acknowledging and condoning underage drinking, which is against the law.
4) FACT: UNDERAGE DRINKING HAPPENS – REGARDLESS OF THE LAW:
A recent study reported that more than 90% of Americans are drinking by age 20.However, BECAUSE it is illegal, underage drinking happens secretly, unsupervised, in basements, in dorm rooms, etc. This is much more dangerous than it would be in more public, controlled environments.
5) LISTEN TO THOSE CLOSEST TO THE ISSUE!:
Countless High School and College faculty, staff, and administrators are surprisingly among those most supportive of a movement to lower the legal drinking age to 18. In 2004, the president of Vermont's Middlebury College, John McCardell, Jr. wrote in The New York Times that "the 21-year-old drinking age is bad social policy and terrible law" that has actually made the college drinking problem far worse.
keep it at 21...whats the big deal...
keep it 21...i had to wait till i was 21...so every one else should suffer the same lol...its not even a big deal...if your desperate to drink then you probably shouldn't anyways...if they make it legal at 18 people are going to be against that too...not every one is going to be happy either way...so i say leave it the same 18 year old kids are gonna get it anyways so i dont see the big deal...-neon