Drinking Age

Should the drinking age be changed? In a lot of other countries the drinking age is a lot lower like ages 16 or 18. Should we change are to be like theirs or should the drinking and driving ages be higher? I believe that the drinking age should be lowered to the age of 18 because that’s when you become a legalized adult. If you are able to vote for someone who is going to rule our country at age 18, you should be able to make the decision to drink or not to drink and make good decisions when doing it. They say that your brain doesn’t fully develop until the age of 21 and the part of the brain that doesn’t develop until then is the part that helps you make good decisions. So I can see why people wouldn’t want to change the drinking age any younger. There are so many kids that don’t wait till their 21 to drink and some still drink and drive. I think by making the drinking age to 18 would be better because if kids could legally drink, it wouldn’t be very much for them. A lot of kids drink just because they can and they want to be rebellious. If you’re under age and you want to drink, then you’ll drink no matter if the drinking age is 21. I think by making the drinking age lower would keep kids safer because they wouldn’t have to hide it from their parents and do stupid things like driving drunk home which puts other people in danger as well. This is a big decision to think about and there are pros and cons to having the drinking age higher and lower but I just believe that it should be lowered and see what kind of results it has.