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The legal age someone should be able to buy and consume alcohol has always been a widely debated topic. Twenty-one is the current minimum age to purchase alcohol. This law was recently changed by all states to twenty-one between 1984 and 1988. Many americans have began debating whether the age should be restored back to eighteen. The people advocating for this change believe that it will help reduce binge drinking among college students. The minimum age to purchase alcohol need to be changed, but not on the basis of combating binge drinking in colleges. The following essay will prove lowering the drinking age will have no effect on binge drinking in colleges. Binge drinking has become an enormous problem among colleges campus across. According to a recent academic journal in "psychopharmacology" half of college students consume enough alcohol to be considered binge drinking every two weeks ( herschl. Binge drinking consist of drinking with the sole intent of becoming intoxicated.
