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In 1984, a law known as the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed which required all states to raise the legal drinking age limit to twenty-one years old. According to the Department of Transportation, any state that did not comply would have its highway funding reduced greatly. This means that when dealing with alcohol, young people are not considered adults until the age of twenty-one. However, the government still recognizes an eighteen year old as an adult who is ready to assume both adult privileges and punishments alike in areas such as crime and punishment, voting rights, and equality in the military. Therefore, the legal drinking age should be lowered to eighteen again to gain justice to all legal adults. Critics, such as MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) who oppose the drinking age being lowered will argue that young adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty years old lack the maturity needed to make responsible decisions when concerning alcohol. They rely on such statistics as the 2001 Shearouse poll which showed that 41% of all U.S. traffic fatalities were alcohol related. This would be a convincing fact, but they failed to mention that less than half of that 41% involved people under the age of twenty-one.
Approximate Word count = 768
Approximate Pages = 3.1
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