Essay On Cannabis In Australia

Cannabis is the most universally used prohibited drug in Australia, its use, sale, and possession, use is illegal in some most states of Australia. The dictatorial model for remedial cannabis thereby needs to be developed with reflection of the international system of drug control and the international treaties of which Australia is a signatory. There are three treaties; 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. The mounting popularity of cannabis use has escorted to propositions for the decriminalisation of the personal use of the drug. Adversaries of cannabis prohibition often …show more content…
Though the ratios are not far off regarding the harmful effects of cannabis compared to alcohol in Australia, they go as far as to 79% deaths caused by illicit drugs versus 92% deaths by alcohol use within a year. Australia professes that other causes of death are an effect of solely the drug and usage, not related to at all their properties or purity. In addition to the pharmacology of the drug itself, drug experiences are influenced by the set and setting, that is the emotional state of the user and influences of their social and cultural environment (Zinberg 1984, p. 5). The most general retort has been the adverse health effects on the Australian community if it was available without restrain as alcohol is and should thereby remain illicit. Again, arguments need to be shifted to making aware the harmful potential of cannabis if misused by adults, to discourage adolescent use, advocate reducing harms of alcohol use as more cannabis use, and to continue teaching safer methods of using