Our Drinking Laws Promote Chaos

Is 21 really the best drinking age for our country to have?

There must have been some magical reasoning with lawmakers for eventually raising the drinking age to 21. Oddly enough an individual state can make the age whatever they want to, but then they will lose federal funding. Basically, states can’t afford to make that choice.

That leaves our country with a universal drinking age that everyone has to abide by, but they don’t. Sure, people are going to break laws, but most people see the drinking age as a joke. Not many people will say, “I have never had alcohol, because I am under the legal drinking age.”

People breaking the law are not the point. Our drinking age is very unrealistic, so of course there are going to many people breaking it. These aren’t bad people, there are just bad laws governing them.

New York State sees underage drinking as a serious problem. This lead them to scheme up some new idea on how to further attempt to prevent underage drinking. If you are under 21 you might be getting a new license in the mail, if you haven’t gotten one already. This new license is specially designed for anyone under 21 and prevents anyone from making a fake ID for the most part. There must be some better use for all of the state’s money that is being spent on this pointless action. In all honesty, if someone wants to drink the new license is not going to stop them.

Whenever there is talk of lowering the drinking age after a short time it is shot down by lawmakers. How would lowering the drinking age make this any worse of an issue, because the fact that we have a younger population not aware about drinking will only make things worse. Telling them they can’t have alcohol is only spinning the issue out of control.

Binge drinking has been on the rise lately. One thing that might help this issue over time is to allow people drink before they are 21. Possibly one of the most sensible ages would be 18. At first there is probably going to be the typical people that abuse the fact that they can drink all of a sudden, since they couldn’t before. Over time though this would level out and create a more responsible alcohol consumer.

Having an environment were something as drinking is not allowed in the mostly college student age range is just giving them more reason to do it. Then they are not going to build any responsible pattern either this way. Making it illegal leads to less actual times they drink, but when they do they are going to drink more at one time. They get used to consuming great amounts of alcohol at one time, so this seems like an acceptable thing to them. This is where the problem really lays.

Holding college students back form drinking makes them drink more than they might have if they were allowed to. Once they actually become old enough to drink legally they already have a horrible drinking ethic that is far from responsible. We are building a society of alcohol consumers that are not responsible in the long-run.

The only way we can truly promote change is not to making drinking illegal for 18 to 20 year olds, but to give them the chance to prove that they are responsible adults.