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Raising the drinking age is not fair. Imagine this You turn 18 and you live a very social life You want to go out with your mates to the bars and clubs but the age to do so has just been put up to 20 years of age. At 18 you don’t want to still be going to parties with people 4 years your junior. The drinking age should not be raised to 20.

Raising the drinking age will not stop the drinking. Teenagers are always able to find people to buy them alcohol or can illegally buy it. Fake identification cards are a way minors are able to purchase alcohol. This can lead to fraud charges. Pubs are supervised locations for people to consume alcohol. This should not be taken away from the under 20 year olds for a minority taking advantage of this law.

On the other hand, 18 New Zealanders have died because of binge drinking since July 2007, This is a small number of deaths considering all the teenagers that drink. “It’s not the fact that we drink that is the problem the problem is how we drink, that is the excessive amounts being drunk”. The drinking age is not the problem there is going to be problems whether the age is 20 18 or 51.

Only a few people are abusing the drinking age. Why change it when we are talking about a minority. Sir Geffory from the palmer from the law commission has said most New Zealanders drink in a low risk manor.

Why put the drinking age above all the other ages to do things. “If Im old enough to go to war I should be old enough to drink.” The drinking age is fine as it is but some things could be changed like raising the age of purchasing alcohol in off licence premises. Teenagers should be shown the effects of binge drinking not putting up the age to purchase alcohol.