by the Constitution nor prohibited by the states are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” This clearly portrays that the government illegally made the age of alcohol consumption twenty-one.The legal age of alcohol consumption is a form of age discrimination. After 9:00, a bar serving alcohol can not have any such person under the age of twenty-one in their establishment even if the person is in the accompaniment of a parent. This law is severely in the effect to age discrimination. The current age has no real basis. With a lowered drinking age, fewer problems will be present. We need to teach safe drinking-drinking in moderation. Today's legal drinking age is unrealistic. Prohibiting the sale of liquor to young adults creates an atmosphere where binge drinking and alcohol abuse have become a problem. Banning drinking for young people makes it a badge of adulthood. It becomes the “forbidden fruit”. Teenagers look at drinking as something glamorous. It is viewed as an adult activity; and teenagers want to be adults as soon as possible. In order to get a drink, teenagers will carry fake I.D.s or sneak drinks from their parents' liquor cabinets. This kind of devious attitude does not encourage responsible drinking. Furthermore, when the opportunity to drink arises, there is a kind of "Let’s be bad" attitude. The result is binge drinking. If the age were lowered to eighteen, this would reduce binge drinking and alcohol consumption would become less taboo. On one’s eighteenth birthday, drinking will not be the only celebration, as it is at twenty-one. Prohibition laws are not working, they didn’t work in the 1920’s and they’re not working now. Because the twenty-one year old drinking age law is not effective, and is counterproductive, it behooves us as a nation to change our current prohibition law and teach responsible drinking techniques for those who chose to consume alco...
