Reponse to Classmates Blog

In his blog “Drinking Age 21 or 25” he talks about the drinking age and how it should be raised to 25. Drinking has so many side effects on individuals. Alcohol consumption is linked to many serious crimes and it causes deaths of thousands of people each year. Alcohol damages brain cells if consumed excessively, judgment and the ability to think straight can also become extremely impaired, and it can also cause death. Now, the question is how can we prevent those? I agree with my class mate to some extent that courses about alcohol consumption should be provided and I believe that they should be like any other course we need to take in order to graduate.

On the other hand putting more restrictions causes curiosity among youngsters and they want to try it out, even though they are minors. Like drinking age 25 instead of 21, it might cause even more serious problems involving alcohol consumption. Many researcher show that in many countries like Germany where the drinking age is 16 have less serious cases involving alcohol consumption. Alcohol can be consumed anywhere, anytime and it is as cheap water.

So it is not just the drinking age, which needs to be changed in order to avoid problems, there are many other aspects that need to be considered as well and come up with a new system with new laws that meet the multicultural American society.