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No. If the legal drinking age were lowered, it would pose threats to not only the drinkers themselves, but other people. Young people are notorious for binge drinking and this leads to many dangerous problems. Drunk-driving rates are highest among drinkers 21 to 25 years of age (23%). And this is just legal drinkers.
Lower the Drinking Age to 19. Laurence Steinberg, a professor of psychology at Temple University, is the author of â Age of Opportunity: Lessons From the New Science of Adolescence.â. Updated February 10, 2015, 3:31 AM. The United States is one of a handful of countries that uses 21 as the minimum legal drinking age.Pretty much the rest of the developed world sets the minimum drinking age at 18. If highway safety really is the main concern, weâd accomplish much more by raising the driving age.n the other hand, having a drinking age of 21 has put colleges and universities in the difficult position of having to police a population of drinkers, half of whom are legally permitted to drink, and half of whom are not.