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Be Like The Europeans

The National Minimum Drinking Age Act is a law that made a large impact on the everyday lives of American youth. It only became a national law in 1984, imbedding the twenty-one year old drinking age into the American society. The law was passed due to the growing problems with drinking youths. The age was raised from eighteen to twenty-one to, supposedly, prevent harm to the individual drinker and to the society. Some advocate the maintenance of the current drinking law, while others speak out against it and lobby for lowering the age back to eighteen. Both sides have consistently made their points and have strongly argued for what they believe in, but it seems that the arguments for lowering the drinking age are beginning to prevail in a society where many have had a drink before their twenty-first birthday. Opinions that America should follow the example of Europe's low drinking age are many and make up a large amount of the overall argument to lower the drinking age, as do numerous other issues. Although countless conservative men and women may say that a low drinking age would result in dire consequences, this is not the case. Lowering the drinking age to eighteen would make a tremendous and beneficial impact on society across America.
Drinking is often times referred to as a tantalizing "forbidden fruit;" it is the excitement and adrenaline rush of breaking the rules that seems to entice many underage teenagers to follow in the prevalent trend of binge drinking. In the present times, uneducated kids such as these are known to break the rules by buying fake id's, drinking excess amounts of alcohol, going to parties, and getting sick weekend after weekend. The nation-spread tendency has triggered many to believe that possibly, if the United States were to lower the drinking age to 18, as it is in Europe, binge drinking and overall consumption of alcohol would decrease. In Europe, along with many countries, "alcohol is neither seen as a poison nor a magic...