Raise the Drinking Age in Germany!

Drinking alcohol is a troublesome issue all over the world. Sometimes I keep thinking why drinking is legal and drugs are actually illegal. Well, a small answer might be that drug are more intensive, but what if people drink too much alcohol. We see the outcome of such excessive drinking almost every day in the news or we can read about them on the internet or somewhere else. Most of the time, the people, who are drinking too much are teenagers.

Why do they drink so much? Why do they drink at all? These questions can be explained by the structure of our society. Everywhere in the world, the governments set up laws concerning when it is allowed for a human being to drink alcohol legally. These laws vary in age; for instance, teenagers in America are allowed to drink with turning 21 and in Germany the border is 16 with some exceptions. Would no limit make the actual drinking habits of teenagers better? I guess not because kids would even start earlier to get alcohol in supermarkets. These limitations are important and it is even more important to set them at an appropriate age. The earlier teenagers are allowed to drink, the earlier they try to get it before they reached this certain age. Parents and the government need to prevent the kids from too much drinking and show them what alcohol can damage and change in a less likely way than waking up in a hospital.

Many people already wrote about this topic and researches occurred. The result was that America, for example, changed the limitation of the age several times till they stopped at the age of 21. Looking at statistics, you can see that lower age borders are creating more damage. Articles over articles are published in Germany about a car accident here and there or anything related to consuming too much alcohol, to show the population that this is not the right why. These article and the families behind the people who died because of alcohol do everything they can against it, but it needs more. We all need to stay up, get together and bring the government to a change. Writing about it is just one way, but it is a good one.