The determination of legality in drinking should not be age, but rather maturity and ability to handle responsibility. As of today, the legal drinking age in the United States is set at twenty-one years of age. I believe that people considering twenty-one, as the legal age of maturity is ridiculous. Who is to say that just because an individual is twenty-one means that they are mature enough to consume alcohol in a responsible manner? There are some twenty-one year old people or even older that I consider to be more immature then my fourteen year old brother. I feel that changing the legal drinking age to eighteen should be enforced. Eighteen-year-old individuals can take on many adult responsibilities, but they do not have the right to consume alcohol. I feel that this is unfair and very biased. .
Many parents of today's teenagers were legally allowed to drink at the age of eighteen. Today's teenagers face more responsibility and are treated much differently from the way their parents were treated back then. If twenty-one is considered so mature, they why is eighteen considered an adult? I believe that the age at which the purchase and public consumption of beverage alcohol becomes legal is also the age at which other "adult" rights and responsibilities should be taken also. 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. If an eighteen year-old can be held with so many responsibilities, then it seems very unfair to say that they are not old enough to drink yet. .
Setting the legal age to purchase and consume alcohol is unrealistic in today's way of life. At eighteen, a person can even have a closed container of alcohol in their possession, but they can't drink it. If at eighteen, you can't consume the alcohol then why should you even be able to have it on you in the first place.