Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Raising The Legal Drinking Age - 1900 Words

Everyday there is an alcohol related incident in the world. The poor decision making by young adults cost people’s lives everyday. The original drinking age was 18 years old, it was changed because scientists discovered the brain doesn t fully develop until the age of 21. But what people don’t know is that the brain fully matures at the age of 25 years old. Car rental places have the age at 25 to be able to rent a car because of young people decision making on drinking and driving. For students in college alcohol can ruin not only their future of becoming something but it can ruin their life by doing stupid things. Most college kids who stay out and party in college fail or flunk out. The dangers of drinking young can lead to many things,†¦show more content†¦Also at this age everyone knows the rules of drinking alcohol, that they shouldn t drive and not to have too much but younger people think much differently. Younger adults still teenagers think they can st ay out drink and party all night and sneak back home by driving. Little do they know almost all alcohol related deaths and accidents happen this way because of what the younger mind thinks. The very first reason why the drinking age of 21 should be raised to 25 is because the brain and your body full reaches its maturity by the age of 25 years old. With age limit to age 25 it changes a lot of things on the road for people who are driving, walking , and the other drivers. It creates a more safe environment for the people surrounding you while you drive instead of driving intoxicated.If the alcohol age is raised to 25 at a more mature age it could cause a more profound effect on the body when there older( narconon). What this means is that not drinking at a young age will make you body fully develop without any problems, but if you do drink you put yourself at risk for when you re older because your body never got the chance to develop in certain places.Young adults that live in neigh borhoods with bars or nightclubs are being sold alcohol and driving home because they think it s a short drive, an older age of maturity would stop the thinking of driving(Drinking Age ProCon.org).Younger drivers that think about driving home when they drink

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