This always annoys me. I’m told the drinking age is 21 because a persons brain continues to develop into their mid 20s, but at age 21, technically the brain is not yet fully developed so what’s behind the magic number of 21? Does it make it safer to drink at that age than at 18? Why isn’t the drinking age 25?
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The drinking age doesn’t have anything to do with brain development. It’s about “maturity” and keeping kids, who are stupid, from doing stupid things with alcohol like driving drunk.
Also the notion that your brain is done “developing” at any point is pretty much junk. Your brain is always rewiring itself and while alcohol may have more impact on younger minds it is still doing the same damage to older ones.
Bonus also: every once in a while some hype article will come out touting a glass of wine as good for the heart or some such but the general consensus is that there is no “safe”/healthy amount of alcohol to drink. It’s all bad for you, all the time, at any age.
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