SWA #17

I decided to change my topic from funding for autism research to changing the drinking age because there wasn't enough current information on autism research funding.

Carpenter, Christopher, and Carlos Dobkin. "The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Public Health." PubMed Central. (2011): n. page. Web. 12 Mar. 2012. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182479/>.

This article provided insight into the legal drinking age in America.  It researched whether the higher drinking age really reduces alcohol consumption in the United States.  It examines the effects of the drinking age in terms of injury and crime.

Martinez, Julia, Miguel Muñoz, and Kenneth Sher. "A new minimum legal drinking age (MLDA)? Some findings to inform the debate." Addictive Behaviors. 34.4 (2009): n. page. Web. 12 Mar. 2012. <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306460308003419>.

This article is used to argue that the drinking age does not need to be lowered because it is a political stance that reflects student’s behaviors.  They present this argument by taking a study of 865 college students under the age of 21.  They found that the beliefs of students generally do reflect their drinking behaviors.