Lowered Drinking Age - cause and effect

Lowered Drinking Age The effects of lowering the legal drinking age to 18 years old would be a great step in helping reduce the crime and delinquency of people (especially college students) between the ages of 18 and 21. This paper will discuss the effects of a lower drinking age on college students - also the effects of the current age of 21. The current law that sets the drinking age at 21 does not prevent a single college student …

…we need to make a national effort to make driving after drinking absolutely unacceptable and to make alternative forms of transportation and accommodation readily available. Moreover, when 18 year olds can vote, marry, join the military, and are considered adults in our society in every other way - not allowing them to drink is ridiculous. Surely, the number of people drinking would rise, but the effects would be a growing maturity with the consumption of alcohol.