Society has changed dramatically over the year, however, have the changes been positive or negative? The illegal use of recreational drugs is a rapidly increasing problem in today’s society and very little has happened in resolving it. Australia’s youth are the most heavily affected by drugs, especially in comparison to the other generations. There are a plethora of factors contributing to the rapid increase of drug use, especially amongst the younger community. The multitude of factors include; the increasingly easy ways of access to drugs, the thrill of success in outsmarting their prosecutors and the decreasing prices that are making the drugs more affordable to the general public.
The current system enforced by the Federal Government of Australia used to prevent the use of illegal recreational drugs has been
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As a world that wants to move forward, to achieve universal equality, ethical actions have to be made. The result that I want is for Australia to be equal, especially it’s punishments. By making the punishments equal, people will not feel as if any act of injustice has been placed upon them because they are fully aware that they’ve been given the same punishment as every other drug user. When the country is eventually ‘drug-free’, everyone will be equal in the sense that no one is disadvantaged by the effect that the drugs have on the economy, community and your body.
Many Australians would argue against the scheme, using the different effects that different drugs have on people and the medical benefits given by few illicit drugs to support their argument on the continuation of the current legal system. The reasoning behind the continuation is not strong enough to justify why the innocent Australian youth should be allowed to be manipulated and persuaded to take part in the destroying of their body, family and nation via illicit drug