demonstrated, it is impossible to completely eliminate psychoactive drug use. (Hamilton, Kellehear, Rumbold, p 14). This does not mean that in Australia, we do not fight against what is currently a legal drug. Alcohol is legal for adult¡s 18 years and over to obtain, to sell (with a liquor licence) and to drink. The fight against alcohol is not the same as heroin and other illicit drugs. In the last century the ' first liquor act to be adopted by the then colonial legislature contained a single offence: 'disorderly conduct in keeping the licensed house¡. This act was more for how the licensed house was kept. 'The next year this was supplemented by the note that: 'death by intoxication shall void a license.¡ Meaning that a person that died because of intoxication could not obtain a death license. ' Turn of the century campaigning for either tight controls on the sale, supply and public consumption of alcohol or total prohibition. By the end of the 20th century, the control of the number of liquor licenses, the restriction of opening hours, the prescription of licensing standards, the prescription of strict operation rules and qustere environs of drinking places had long been establish as the primary objectives of liquor laws. (Stockwell, p.40). As more information is gathered about what happens with alcohol new laws get made to try and control. Not only is the situation of licenses a issue there is also crimes that are committed because of alcohol, crimes such as drink driving, physical and verbal abuse and in some incidents death.
             Although certain drugs (non-medicated) are legal it does not show that society is better because of legalisation. Tobacco (nicotine) is another drug, which is currently legal and has brought medical and economical problems to the individual and to Australia. With tobacco many people are either getting ill or dying. This is some what a recent discovery that was not thought about in the past ...