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A 9 page paper which considers the cultural and historical factors that have had a significant bearing upon the changing legal status of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, amphetamines, and opiates in Australia during the past thirty years. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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certain legal status to the use of various substances - from alcohol to opiates - which has fluctuated considerably within the past thirty years due to various factors, not the
least has been a progressively more liberal younger generation. What conclusions, if any, can be drawn about the preferred legal status of some substances over others? There does
seem to be, despite the changing times and fast pace of Australian society due to technology and globalization, a consistency generated by historical and cultural factors that remain rooted in
an unchanging morality. An indisputable fact remains that no matter what names they might have, "pharmaceuticals, alcohol, nicotine, tea and coffee are all drugs" (Bush and Neutze, 2000, p. 129).
But yet there has long been the notion that some are licit and acceptable while others are illicit and must be legally prohibited (Bush and Neutze, 2000). While
drugs that are prescribed for medical reasons may be an exception, taking drugs for individual pleasure has never been legally sanctioned, but within the past thirty years in particular, this
has raised questions regarding alcohol and tobacco usage (Bush and Neutze, 2000). Those who have dared to suggest significantly altering the legal status have no supportive precedents to cite
(Moffitt et al, 1998). In the United States, Alaska briefly legalized the use of cannabis, but this change in status was quickly reversed "due to its harmful consequences" (Moffitt
et al, 1998, p. 75). In the past thirty years, Australian society has chosen a much less dramatic path of relaxing prohibition laws, which could be interpreted as signaling
a change in legal status. But cultural history is a difficult obstacle to overcome. According to statistics published during the late 1990s, approximately 6 million Australians consume alcohol on
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