This comprehensive edition explores the topic of the legal drinking age. It explores whether the Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) has been effective, efforts to lower the MLDA, impact of MLDA on safety, and examines legal drinking ages outside of America. Readers will learn both sides of the issue, from experts who examine what the impact would be of lowering the legal drinking age, either for or against. Includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives; eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials, and many others.