No Drinking Allowed! - Stage 8

I would have to agree with my classmate’s blog titled Why21?.  The author questions the legal drinking age being 21.  I also did a search and could not find a valid reason for the age being 21.  I did find an interesting article asking the same question from US News, The Drinking Age Debate: Time to Go From 21 to 18,But It’s Not an Easy Call.  As the article states, education on alcohol starts at home; however, I do believe it should also continue at schools in a health class.  Teenagers need to be educated on the effects of alcohol and their body.

After more searching, I discover the legal drinking age in most countries is 18 (Minimum Legal Drinking Ages Around the World.)  There are only five countries where the legal age is 21.  Echoing my classmate’s thoughts, at age 18 you are allowed to kill and die for your country, you can vote, drive a vehicle, sign legal documents, go to prison, and be on a jury.  But yet for this same person at age of 18, there is no drinking allowed!