Getting Rid of the Drinking Age

When teen-agers turn 18, their parents tell them that they are adults and send them into the world. They go to college, get a job, join the military. They do grown-up things like vote, pay taxes and become parents. But they can't go to the bar for a beer because when it comes to liquor, they are still just kids. People under the age of 21 grow up looking forward to finally being able to legally purchase and consume alcohol. But many don't wait until that time and find a way around the legal system.
The United States government feels that people under the age of 21 are not responsible enough to consume alcohol so in 1987 they enacted a law to raise the legal drinking age from 18 years old to 21 years old. …