Drinking age changed???

I have to do a pursuasive essay in english and i was wondering if anyone thinks the drinking age should or shouldn't be changed to 18...im just curious. If you could can you tell me why...thanks.

Well I think if you are old enough to fight and die for your country you should be old enough to legally drink. So either lower the drinking age to 18 or raise the age of drafting or signing up for armed forces.

I don't drink, so either way I don't care (that is until I have my own children). Here the age limit is 19 & kids are complaining that it's still too high. They should be thankful it's not 21 anymore... The funny thing is is that they've been drinking since they were 12yrs old...

Yeah, I could go on with this post about how stupid it really is & how stupid the kids all really are, but that would make the post far too long for anybody to want to read.

Our drinking age is 19, I guess it's fine I wouldn't want it going down and I really would not care if it went up, but either way people find a way to do what they want. It is more an issue of responsibility and that doesn't necessarily make it an age issue, but a mindset one.

I think it should be changed to 18. not because i drink, because i dont. but because at 18 almost everything becomes legal..except drinking. it's only fair. 18 you're an adult, you make your own decisions about everything else. at 18 you CAN smoke if u want..does that mean you have to? no. but you're an adult and it's your job to make a healthy decision. i think its just more fair. because my bf is in the marines, hes 20, been in thema while. hes old enough to be in the marines, but not old enough to drink? [even though he doesnt want to either..but still..just a point im trying to make]

I agree with that one guy. 18 is still in high school so 19 is a much better age. Although I see nothing wrong with 21.

I don't like that it is 18. i can just see so many kids messing up their senior year in high school.

what a shame.

Im with rebecca, our govenment is saying that your ready to go die in war but your not ready to decided if you want to drink and how much you should if you do. how is that right?? if people screw up people screw up its their future

3 of my good friends died on graduation night due to driving while intoxicated, and another from alcohol poisoning, so i guess that makes 4 total, i'm sure if someone on here was to do research and find the # of alcohol related injuries/deaths just on graduation nights alone, that may sway some of your attitudes about leaving the drinking age where it's at...whether you are old enough to drink or not, please do it responsibly...thanks

I don't think it should be changed to 18, drinking is already causing problems and having it lowered to 18 is going to increase those problems and lower the age expectation in our societies. plus most 18 year olds are still going through the teenage stage and haven't matured enough to be reasonable with drinking.

But see if it were legal so many students would become uninterested because its less "dangerous" (for lack of a better term)
plus, there are many places in the world that you can drink before 21 and they have fewer deaths than the US

Not that young people these days care what the drinking age even is but for the sake of having rules I don't think it should be lowered. Anyways, I think for the most part the drinking age law is there to make some adults feel better about themselves but it doesn't always work.

There are lots of deaths related to drinking like drinking and driving etc. If you lower the drinking age you'd just allow for more of that to happen.

I think it's crazy that in America it's 21, are (the majority) of people not mature enough by 18 to legally buy alcohol?

Never ever drink!!!! he he he...

"that one guy"
how about if you disagree with me you atleast explain.
"you must be kidding" is pretty lame and suggests that you have no idea what is wrong with my statement.

EXACTLY!!amanda that is the point ive tried to state! thank you because you stated it in much better words than i could have.

Amanda, i do agree with you on that one, how many teens view it as "thrill."

my older sibling, probably only drinks for that reason. but what about the kids in high school who are heading toward the road to becoming an alcoholic? the government can't just assume that every teenager is drinking for the thrill. some teenagers drink to numb emotion, or to subside the voices of their yelling and violent parents. what will happen to those kids as alcohol becomes easier to access?

those kids will fall into an even deeper hole. getting help? sure that is the answer, help programs are around. however, one must admit that they need help before they can seek it. but put that into reality. would an 18 year old dare to put in effort in asking help? or would that 18 year old just walk down to his local Walmart and buy more alochol?

don't most teenagers get into help programs by first getting caught with alcohol? well now, they can't get caught. since they are following the law.

Having had a drinking problem from the age of 18 on, I don't blame my parents at all, I was awesome at hiding it from them and keeping secrets. As an adult it was my action and inaction within my own life that allowed it to happen. When my parents finally realized what was going on, I felt so guilty for disappointing them and doing that to myself that to this day I no longer drink. It is easy to point the finger at lawmakers or parents, but lets be serious and realize once you hit a certain age, you run your own life and follow your own path, no matter what anyone else might say or try to do.

Do it like Denmark, and make it 15 (or is it 16?)...=)

Up here in the cold north (norway) its 18

It is 15 :0) I am from Denmark.......I think the age is too low, kids at that age in DK only thinks about drinking and parties, they don't care about their school......I think 18 is a fair age!

Oh no not at all!!

i kno a lot of people say if at 18 you can fight and die for your country but not drink... but fighting for your country is different than drinking! i think fighting at 18 is too younge!

im 18, and yea i drink, but the age shouldn't be lowered cuz 18 is so younge! yea ur considered an adult, but that doesn't make u mature! when ur 18, your still in school, ur at a party lovin age!

i went to south america, and there u only have to be 18, and they partied every damn night! not just saturdays and fridays, EVERY NIGHT! and walking down the street, u'd have tons of drunk people bumping into you!

if it was that easy for me to get, i'd have a drinking problem! i already do but not a big one only because its hard to get sometimes!

Manitoba, Quebec & Alberta, the drinking age is 18. Underage drinking in some places is allowed if it is supervised or in your own home. I think there are about 20 countries where there is no drinking age, though they do have a purchasing age.

By 18, honestly, who couldn't get alchohol already? I really don't know any eighteen-year-olds who couldn't get their hands on alchohol already, if they wanted to.

And there are many countries with drinking ages far under 21 who are a lot better off than the U.S.
Especially in the education department.

Hell, in Germany you can drink at 16.
Not only do they have a near flawless graduation rate, but even with the Autobahn, they have half the alcholhol related car accidents we do.

Ok thats wonderful u think im a lil hypocritical, really i don't care. but yea, i drink, im 18 and STILL, i don't think it should be lowered because like i said, easy access will just cause us minors to drink more. Thats the reason why i dont drink as much. And im saying this based on the people in my city, 18 year olds, 19 and 20 year olds drink iresponsibly all the damn time.

and why do the states have more drinkin probs then canada? i don kno why ur askin, cuz i dunno! i don research this stuff! im just sayin my opinion! and my opinion is the way it is because the people i see in my city, my experience as an under aged drinker and my experience in south america where the drinking age is 18.

You obviously misread me! not mad at all!
i understand its a debate, i debate the way i debate, and you do it the way you do it, everyone does it different!
and yea, i use a lot of !'s, just the way i write! thats all...
end of story and back to the question....

I think the drinking age needs to change at least I think that the drinking age, being able to vote, going in the the military should all be the same age because if you can presedent of the United states, die for our country then you should be able to drink but that is just me and what I think of the drinking age changing.

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Okay well in south Africa the drinking age is 18 but the thing is that when i go out there are like children some younger than 13 even who are drinking. i find it disgusting, okay i know this is slightly hypocritical of me because yes i do drink, i am going 2 be 18 this month and i know thats still not a good enough reason but being a few days away from 18 is a lot better than being 12 and drinking. i get so annoyed when i see those children drinking and being so irresponsible, they go and get so drunk with older guys and the next day is front line news of how these young girls are getting raped. i mean seriously you can see a 12 year old pretty clearly if there is going 2 be a drinking age then why sell to children!!!!

"i get so annoyed when i see those children drinking and being so irresponsible, they go and get so drunk with older guys"

Be annoyed with the older guys, not the children, obviously it is a learned and encouraged behaviour.