The federal government is illegally forcing laws they do not have the power to make. The 10th amendment of the Constitution states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The federal government is taking reserved powers from the states. The states were blackmailed into changing the legal drinking age to 21 or else they would have lost millions of dollars in transportation funds. The federal government says that the 21-year-old drinking age is for our safety because there are over 3,000 drunk driving accidents involving people under the age of 21 each year. However, there are

The government has the wrong approach to drinking. They try to teach avoidance instead of moderation. They try to teach in DARE programs that all drugs and alcohol are bad instead of teaching that alcohol is ok along as consumption is controlled. They make the public think that drinking is part of maturity instead of maturity being learning to drink properly. “Lowering the drinking age would help send the important message that drinking is, in itself, not evidence of maturity… that responsible consumption for those who chose to drink is evidence of maturity.”(Engs, 3)

All the theories that young adults are not responsible enough to drink legally are made up those who are worried that a lowered drinking age will lead to a greater number of alcoholics. These theories have not been proven but were created to scare the general public. At this time a twisted sense of “morality” is being imposed on a younger generation to which past genera

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