1. Arguing the Drinking Age
As of today, the legal drinking age in the United States is set at twenty-one years of age. ... At the age of eighteen, an individual can vote, serve on a jury, stay out without a curfew, leave home, drive, smoke, buy weapons, have financial contracts, be sent to adult prison, join the Army and die for this country. ... Instead of restricting the eighteen year-old adults, the government should set up ways to better educate the public of the dangers and responsibilities that come with drinking. ... Since the number twenty-one has no real basis of maturity, the government should have kept the ...
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