Lowering the Drinking Age
...t drink afterward. (Wechsler 142) What it does do, however, is push young people to find places to drink where they won't be caught. Often this means drinking out in the woods at a hunting camp, or drinking around a bonfire in the middle of a field. I think it would make more sence for them to be able to drink supervised, in a bar or club, where there is less danger for injury. Another reason I think that the drinking age should be lowered is because it pushes young people to find alternatives to drinking. Often these alternatives are recreational drugs and narcotics. Many of these drugs are more addictive than alcohol, and most of these drugs are more dangerous. I think most adults would rather have their young people drink a glass of beer than shoot up. Many people think that the drinking age should stay at twenty one. These people believe that people under the age of twenty one are not mature enough to handle the responsibility that comes with drinking. The answer to that is that there are many examples of immature adults in all age groups. I agree that there are some eighteen and nineteen year-olds that are barely mature enough to cross the street by themselves, but if you look in almost any newspaper you will probably find articles about forty year-olds ...