Weâve all had throbbing leg pain at some point in our life. As a young adult, this throbbing leg pain is typically caused by some athletic event or injury. But as we get older, there are other considerations that can be a bit more serious.
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.
When we raise the drinking age to 21, which incidentally is the highest in the world, it makes drinking more attractive to young people, says David J. Hanson, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Potsdam.hen what happened was when the law mandated age 21 in every state we discovered for the first time in history that those younger students suddenly began drinking more than older students, he says. It suddenly made it more attractive. And it drove drinking underground, he said.