The legal age for drinking should be lowered from 21 to 18

I do not agree that the legal age for drinking should be lowered to age 18. I understand that 18 is the age that a person is considered an adult and therefore able to make their own choices. However, 18 and 19 year-olds are still technically teenagers. Drinking is a serious thing. It can cause major health problems and even death. Some people might even debate that alcohol was made illegal to everyone. The age of 21 seems a reasonable age limit to me. I think that by age 21 most people are mature enough to understand the consequences of drinking. Kids today seem to take longer to mature. "From ages 11-14, kids lose some of the connections between cells in the part of their brain that enables them to think clearly and make good decisions."(http://www.psychologytoday.com...)
Kids who are experiencing these brain changes can react emotionally, according to Ian Campbell, a neurologist at the U.C. Davis Sleep Research Laboratory. Some results of those changes are mood swings, uncooperative and irresponsible attitudes. Sometimes, they can"t explain why they feel the way they do. This is the time when their brain is changing from a child's brain to an adult's brain. "The frontal lobes of the brain which are responsible for high level reasoning and decision making aren"t fully mature until the early 20s, according to Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, a neuroscientist at Harvard"s Brain Imaging Center." (http://www.psychologytoday.com...) So even an 18 year-old is not fully matured. So 21 is a good age because the person most likely has a brain mature enough to make good decisions and understand the possible outcomes of drinking.