... unlawful activity, because college freshman and sophomores can't party with some of their friends according to the law. By the time most high school seniors graduate they have already turned 18, and those who haven't soon will. If the minimum drinking age were lowered to 18 or ... goal. The theory is that by nineteen most people have completed or are at least out of high school and are out functioning in a world much older than that of their days in school. They are expected to be more mature, and to act as adults in all other ways. ... drinking practices, are generally those that publ...

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The legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 years old and young adults should be allowed to drink in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs, and official school and university functions. In these situations responsible drinking could be taught through role modeling and educational programs. Mature and sensible drinking could be taught and expected. Although the legal ... that "similar reductions in alcohol-related traffic crashes have occurred among young drivers without raising the minimum purchase age" . The study also found that the magnitude of the drinking and dri...

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... into account that alcohol and teens are very well acquainted. The book, Teenagers and Alcohol: When Saying No Isn't Enough, asserts that high school surveys in the last decade show that ninety-two percent of its students have tried alcohol (Vogler & Bartz 4). Former Senator Baker says, ... aged, infirm, and builds hospitals and schools (Qtd. in Vogler & Bartz 3-4).? Although the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was enacted to prevent drunken driving accidents among inexperienced adults, it has pushed underage drinking into unsafe environments. In a recent Internet search, I found that t...

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... 1984, states individually decided how to regulate the sale liquor, but then a push by the federal government and by MADD, Mother's Against Drunk Driving, to have a national higher drinking age created the now instilled policy(Conant 1). There is much data proving and disproving the effectiveness of the ... that these students will make mature decisions about the proper and responsible ways to deal with alcohol consumption is highly unlikely. Mother's Against Drunk Driving, MADD, is responsible for much of the hype about underage drinking and it's dangers. MADD helped to pass federal statu...

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... 21 to purchase and consume alcohol. What is significant about the age 21? At this age, immaturity is gone, left behind in the days of high school. Most people are in college, possibly in their third year, or working for a living. Many of these college students under the age of 21 ... is indeed a major responsibility, one that can be handled directly out of high school. A better and more consistent age to consume alcohol is 18. Laws against abusive drinking are very strict the way they are, especially against drinking and driving. Everyone knows about this law, and many people hand over t...

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... by law as equals shouldn't they have the same privileges? Obviously certain laws that regulate activities by age are necessary. Voting, alcohol, and driving should not be available to people of any age because of the amount of responsibility these activities require. However the segregation between younger and older ... adults is unwarranted. Up until 1984 the legal drinking age was 18, however Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) spurred a campaign to raise the age limit to 21. They succeeded with the passage of the National Minimum Purchase Age Act in 1984 ... . (Shamed, Legal Drinkin...

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... underage drinking and underage drinking laws. One such example that has had a profound effect on societies views is the organization known as MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). But yet despite all of these methods and laws implemented to discourage adolescent drinking, the ease of getting alcohol to minors is ever increasing. In order to ... schoolers had this to say: some say that they drink to gain acceptance from their peers. Young people tend to imitate the behavior of their peers. High school students look up to college students and see that they go out and party every weekend, s...

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... There are also a few groups that are strongly opposed to lowering the drinking age such as Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (Advocates). Virginia Attorney General Richard Cullen posses a good argument that if the drinking age is lowered then it would be easier for people to ... to drink. More serious cases such as that of Mr. Cureton, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of North Carolina whom was arrested for driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.14. Mr. Cureton was almost double the legal limit, 0.08 percent, serving as a major hazard to o...

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... longer seemed important when they involved someone else.           This loss of a powerful ally allowed the modern prohibitionist movement led by Candy Lightner, the president and founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), to gain strength in this country again. The late seventies and eighties were marked with an excess of highly publicized studies that claimed teenage alcohol use was out of ... . Communities nationwide have spent millions of dollars on police patrols, sophisticated driver's licenses and propaganda campaigns to prevent people under 21 from drinking alcoholic b...

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... away from home is often their first. They will have to deal with many new and challenging situations both academically and socially. For many, high school was a time of stress and worrying about getting into a good college. But once accepted and enrolled, students tend to take advantage of the ... defined as any 12-ounce beer or wine cooler, one shot of alcohol (straight or mixed), or one glass of wine. Students who drank regularly in high school tend to engage in binge drinking during college. Also, "being white, involved in athletics, or a resident of a fraternity or sorority made it m...

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... away from home is often their first. They will have to deal with many new and challenging situations both academically and socially. For many, high school was a time of stress and worrying about getting into a good college. But once accepted and enrolled, students tend to take advantage of the ... defined as any 12-ounce beer or wine cooler, one shot of alcohol (straight or mixed), or one glass of wine. Students who drank regularly in high school tend to engage in binge drinking during college. Also, "being white, involved in athletics, or a resident of a fraternity or sorority made it m...

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... under age." The system does not allow youngsters to find a way to handle alcohol responsibly. In some cities if an adult supervises a party where alcohol is present to prevent drunk driving they can be convicted for allowing other people's children to drink in their home. What sense does this make? When the parent is watching, teenagers are less apt to get ... still receive liquor regardless of how old you must be to purchase it. 1983, one year before the National Minimum Purchase Age Act was passed 88% of seniors in high school admitted to having used alcohol in the past year, and 41% ...

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... his or herself, but for others. A sixteen year old must sit through training classes, take a written test, and take a driving test. Afterwards, he or she is assumed to be a responsible driver. If the drinking age was lowered, maybe a senior in high school should be permitted to take a course that offers an outline of how to be responsible when choosing to use alcohol ... . They feel that the law keeps eighteen to twenty year olds away from alcohol. Which statistically, is false. As revealed by Maryland Underage Drinking Prevention Coalition "87 percent of high school seniors have used al...

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... under age The system does not allow youngsters to find a way to handle alcohol responsibly. In some cities if an adult supervises a party where alcohol is present to prevent drunk driving they can be convicted for allowing other people's children to drink in their home. What sense does this make? When the parent is watching, teenagers are less apt to get ... still receive liquor regardless of how old you must be to purchase it. 1983, one year before the National Minimum Purchase Age Act was passed 88% of seniors in high school admitted to having used alcohol in the past year, and 41% ad...

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... had been drinking. About two-thirds of the alcohol-involved crimes were characterized as simple assaults."" "In 1996, local law enforcement agencies nationwide made an estimated 1,467,300 arrests for driving under the influence (DUI). Arrests for DUI peaked in 1983 when there were 1.9 million arrests. Compared to 1983, the per capita rate of arrest for DUI in 1996 was 34 ... percent lower."" An example of how drinking can promote serious crime would be an event that occurred several years ago when a few Bridge City High School students were at a party where they became intoxicated. They...

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