Raising the Drinking Age to 21 Has Been a Disastrous 30-Year Experiment

S. Georgia Newgent is the president of Kenyon College and a senior researcher at the Independent University Council.

As I believe that the limitation of 21 years did not solve the problem, I former college director and I cooperate with many colleagues to assert the minimum drinking age from 21 to 18 years old did. The experiment that the US banned before was an infamous failure. However, in 1984, the United States again promuled a more restrictive ban to become one of the few countries in the world at the age of 21 years and over. I believe that the experience of banning young people for thirty years is a serious failure.

Uneven ubiquity brings uncertainty about the law by selectively observing the law or by thinking that people can not change the law.

There are many arguments for the 21-year old minimum age. In my opinion, the most important thing is the drastic increase in the phenomenon of drunkenness among young people since the change in 1984, which poses a health and safety hazard. If an 18-year-old man drives, marries and works in the army, but legally declares to drink his or her beer illegally, the illogical situation is a patent. As a result, the overwhelming response of young people was not to comply with the law, but to violate the law. By banning the moderate use of alcohol and adult supervision in a suitable social setting, we began drinking more underground alcohol, so we adopted a very dangerous "pre-game" format . Drinkers who do not want to drink beer from time to time may increase the possibility of tasting a dangerous high octane number alcohol before going to the party. As a result, the use of alcohol is increasingly dangerous

Our society has other negative effects as well. Uneven ubiquity leads to more general uncertainty about the law by thinking that it can not be changed or by selectively observing the law. The evaluation of the legal experiment over the past three decades should be possible and should be based on cognitive science, physiology, anthropology and sociology, traffic accident data, and car construction studies. However, the powerful lobby group settled down the discussion about the topic.

As an educator, I would like to encourage our young people to make reasonable decisions based on correct arguments. In the case of minimum drinking age it is difficult to find their elders to find they imitate this behavior.

In the United States, legal drinking age is 21 years old. By raising the minimum age, retailers think that they can more easily monitor underage drinking - most of the age of 21 looks like an adult. Raising the minimum age is not an official BMA policy, but the physician's body thinks this is something that can be investigated. A spokesperson in the United States states as follows. "The evidence from the United States clearly shows that increased legal drinking age has a big positive impact on alcohol related problems." Although alcohol concerns agree, increasing drinking age is politically non-existent Is possible.

Americans under the age of 21 are legally purchasing alcohol for nearly 30 years in the United States. In the unified drinking age law of 1984 it is mandatory that the state faces the problem of raising the legal drinking age to 21 years old or reducing the funds of the federal highway. Wyoming insisted on raising legal drinking age in 1988, since that time, 21 years old was the number of magic of this country. Over the years discussions on statutory age have been considered to be a major solution in the official place, but new laws throughout the country are challenging this assumption. Last year Minnesota considered a proposal to lower legal drinking age. Last year's proposal did not gain traction, but it will be reevaluated during the legislative meeting in 2016, and some other states took similar measures this year to comply with Minnesota leaders ing.

Is there any benefit to raising drinking age to 21 years old? There are several. After legal drinking age grew to 21 years, state accidents in the state decreased by 15%. After 21 years old minimum drinking age in all provinces, people from 18 months to 20 years old drank last month from 59% in 1985 to 40% in 1991. Alcohol consumption of people aged 25 to 25 also decreased sharply from 70% in 1985 to 56% in 1991.

It has been proved that after the experiment of about 30 years, the drinking rate of the target age group will not decrease even if the drinking age of 21 years old or higher increases. For example, many studies show that over-the-elder drinking is a problem for people of this age, especially on campuses of universities and universities.