I’d Like a Beer with My Voters Card
At the age of eighteen a person is considered an adult. Becoming an adult carries all the
privileges and responsibilities of being legally accountable for your actions. Those privileges
should include the right to decide whether or not to drink alcohol. At eighteen, you are able to get
married, sign binding legal contracts, purchase lottery tickets and smoke cigarettes, and fight for
your country, but you are unable to legally consume alcohol. Why is it that this country has a
legal drinking age of twenty one? The illegality of alcohol consumption for eighteen year olds
often times provokes abuse, over indulgence, and secretive binge drinking
A significant organization, Mothers against Drunk Driving (MADD), has become a
powerful force across the country. Eventually all fifty states changed their laws to comply with