Alcohol has been around since the beginning of time and its not going to disappear. I believe that alcohol is not a bad thing, unless you abuse it. Today, most young adults start drinking early in their high school years at social gatherings. During those years, they endure many changes in their lives. They think that if they don't drink like their fellow peers, they will not fit in. What they don't know is that their body is still growing and alcohol can lead to many complications early in life.

In many cultures drinking as a young adult is no

In addition, I feel that parents have a lot to with the problem. They are too naive to realize that their kids are going to drink. In most households, parents don't approve of drinking. Rather, they should approve of you to drink responsibly if you are going to drink. In my household, I was brought up knowing that alcohol is not something that should be abused. My parents have trusted me to be responsible when drinking. They trusted me to make the right decisions. For the most part I have, except for one time that I will never forget, when I abused alcohol.

Another contradicting fact is that alcoholism is a disease. Some people might assume that there would be more alcoholics, but that wouldn't change the fact that they have a problem. I have a friend who has this problem and lowering the law would not effect how much he drinks. No matter what, he will get his alcohol every weekend.

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