Alcohol has been around for thousands of years. It is often use for religious and cultural reasons, but for some reason the American society views alcohol as a taboo beverage, so much so that they have made the minimum drinking age to twenty-one, the highest minimum drinking age in the world.
Alcohol has been used by virtually every culture and continent on earth. According to a study published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, alcohol has been around for at least 6,000 years. Due to the fact that alcohol has been found in almost every continent, and due to the fact that it has been used by a wide variety of cultures that had little to no contact with each other throughout the globe suggests that alcohol has had important …show more content…
This proves that having the minimum drinking age to 21 does not mean the traffic accidents will decrease. There is another debate that argues that once you turn 18 you are allowed to get married, be prosecuted as an adult, sign binding contracts, purchase a house, voting, serve on a jury, and even join the military and die for your country, and pretty much by all intent and purposes be able to do everything an adult does except drink alcohol. This kind of mentality makes absolutely no sense. The law is basically saying that it trust an 18 year old to do all of this things, but not drink alcohol. The fact that almost every state didn’t immediately lower their minimum alcohol age when the law was pass by Ronald Reagan proves that most people where oppose to it, and they only didn’t because they would have been penalize by a 10 percent reduction in their federal highway money if they didn’t
Alcohol has been used by virtually every culture and continent on earth. According to a study published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, alcohol has been around for at least 6,000 years. Due to the fact that alcohol has been found in almost every continent, and due to the fact that it has been used by a wide variety of cultures that had little to no contact with each other throughout the globe suggests that alcohol has had important …show more content…
This proves that having the minimum drinking age to 21 does not mean the traffic accidents will decrease. There is another debate that argues that once you turn 18 you are allowed to get married, be prosecuted as an adult, sign binding contracts, purchase a house, voting, serve on a jury, and even join the military and die for your country, and pretty much by all intent and purposes be able to do everything an adult does except drink alcohol. This kind of mentality makes absolutely no sense. The law is basically saying that it trust an 18 year old to do all of this things, but not drink alcohol. The fact that almost every state didn’t immediately lower their minimum alcohol age when the law was pass by Ronald Reagan proves that most people where oppose to it, and they only didn’t because they would have been penalize by a 10 percent reduction in their federal highway money if they didn’t