A brief history of Australian drug laws
Drug prohibition and the criminalisation of people who use those drugs might seem like it's been around forever but most Australian drug laws are relatively new.
This brief acccount of the history of Australian drug laws was written by NSW lawyer Steve Bolt in 2010 and is adapted from text originally published in Hot Topics: legal issues in plain language, No. 59 Drugs and the Law published by the Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC).
The notion of making drug use illegal did not really emerge in Western societies until the late nineteenth century. Before that, in Australia, Britain, Europe, and the United States, whether people used drugs was considered a personal decision—subject to social disapproval, but not illegal. Alcohol was of course the most widely used psychoactive substance.
The first Australian drug law was an 1857 Act imposing an import duty on opium. In the following years, a number of...
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