Lower the U.S. Drinking Age

2-27-12 I. Introduction All around the dry land galore(postnominal) people intoxication alcohol for many different Occasions. There are drinks at parties, forbid, clubs and even your home. You can find alcohol just about everywhere in the United States. Around the world there are many different climb on requirements in order to drink or buy alcohol. The majority of countries around the world have a set maturate minimum of eighteen years of be on. So why is our inebriety age 21? Why is this important to us? We are all college students and everybody knows that there is underage inebriety one way or another. Professor Ruth C. Engs from Indiana University states The legal drink age should be lowered to about 18 or 19 and young adults allowed to drink in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs and official school and university functions. I believe that the legal intoxication age in the United States should be lowered to the ages of 18 or 19. The reason it should be lowered is because college students impart drink at to the lowest degree once during their first year of college. Legally, at the age of eighteen we are granted the rights of adults.And finally, by stern teens to not drink that forces them to drink in unsafe places. II. College students drink College students leave behind always drink match to alcohol101. com 72% of all college students drink alcohol. 69% of the total 72% are underage drinkers. If the legal alcohol addiction age was lowered to 18 then drinking in college will not be as big as it is now. It would still occur just now not as much as it does now. By lowering the drinking age, college students will be able to drink in safer places such as bars or clubs, instead of house parties or other places.Now that Ive talked about college students drinking I will now move onto how at the age of 18 the U. S. calls us adults. III. Considered adults At the age of 18 in the United States we are considered adult s and obtain all the rights and responsibilities of being adults. At this age we can now vote, foretoken up for the armed forces, and buy cigarettes. However we cannot buy or consume alcohol legally until 3 years later. If we are already considered as adults at the age of 18 then why can we not lower the drinking age?Now that I have talked about being adults but not being able to buy alcohol at the age of 18, Im deprivation to talk about now how drinking at unsafe environments is harmful. IV. Unsafe Drinking Environments Because the legal drinking age is 21, that forces college students, mainly newcomer, to drink at house parties where they do not know what they are drinking at times. Drinking at house parties seems fun, however it could go bad in many ways. Since freshman cannot buy alcohol they resort to free alcohol at parties, which could be very dangerous because they will be unaware of any thing that could be put inside their drink. Setting the drinking age to 18 would a llow these college students to purchase their make drinks and they will for sure know what they bought and it would be closed whence letting them know it is safe to consume. V. Conclusion To recap on my speech the drinking age should be lowered to the age of 18 in the United States. Not only is that the most popular age to drink around the world it is a very reasonable age. By changing the drinking age to 18 then we can really be considered as adults and will be responsible for our own actions.