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politial science

p Lowering the drinking age to 18

Introduction

The drinking age was set to 21 on a national level in 1984 , which aimed to cut down the amount of lives lost due to alcohol consumption by young adults . The reason for the age limit of 21 years as a minimum requirement for alcohol consumption was taken due to the number of traffic accidents in which young adults were involved due to consumption of alcohol (Roan . The following discussion will aim to complement this step taken , the reasons provided for the support of

lowering the age will only negatively affect the youth more . Our hypothesis would hence be that lowering the drinking age would increase the number of accidents and harm the society Traffic accidents and Underage drinking

Drinking and driving has always led to serious consequences as during an intoxicated state , the drivers of automobiles have slower reflexes and less coherence , thus leading to serious accidents which may not only take their own lives but those of others as well . The debate on lowering the drinking age is not a new initiative taken as an experiment to test the validity of decreasing the drinking age took place in the 1970s (Roan . The result of lowering the drinking age led to an increase in the number of accidents that took place on the roads and eventually the government increased the age to 21 in 1984

Here we can see an interesting argument placed by John McCardell founder of the Amethyst Initiative , who...

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