Blog 5

 The primary source site offers an extreme amount of info on this topic as well as some very interesting facts on drinking statistics and laws that many Americans do not know about. These statistics and interesting facts also speak greatly about how our American culture has been formed. 

The drinking age is a large political issue, especially when states go back and forth lowering and hiring the minimum drinking age. This also presents the issue that if the majority of teens are drinking regularly anyway, than why set a minimum age?

I retrieved this main source from when I did in internet library search of the negatives on teen drinking and where the drinking age should stand.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), "Underage Drinking and the 21 Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) Law," www.madd.org (Oct. 20, 2010)

Although many believe that anyone under the age of 21 is prohibited from consuming alcohol in the United States, underage drinking is allowed in 29 states if done in a private premiss with parental consent. 25 states also allow it for religious purposes and seven states allow it for educational purposes.

Between 1970 to 1976, 30 states lowered their Minimum Legal Drinking Age from 21 to 18, 19, or 20.

The enactment of The national minimum drinking age act of 1984 prompted states to raise their legal age for purchase or public possession of alcohol to 21 or risk losing millions in federal highway funds.