John Smith

Negative: The legal drinking age in the U.S. should be lowered to 18.

Introduction

We believe that the drinking age across the United States should stay at 21 years of age. Several states are currently petitioning that the drinking age be lowered; however, we find this to be dangerous and extremely unnecessary.
The first reason why we would like the drinking age to stay the same is because of history. From the end of Prohibition (when alcohol was not allowed to be manufactured or sold in the United States) drinking ages were determined by the states. Many of the states set the age at 21, while several lowered the age to 18 for the purchase of beer. This was fairly consistent until the emergence of the baby boom generation and the Vietnam War. From 1970 through 1975, nearly all states lowered their legal ages of adulthood, thirty of which included their legal drinking ages, typically from 21 to 18. The reason most states lowered the drinking age was because......

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Title: Drinking Age Debate
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