With Considered Reference to Scholarly Literature on the Subject, Assess the Advantages and Disadvantages of Cannabis Legalisation in Australia.

2.  With considered reference to scholarly literature on the subject, assess the advantages and disadvantages of Cannabis Legalisation in Australia.

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Cannabis has had a long history in Australia, dating back to the First Fleet, where botanist Sir Joseph Banks brought over hemp seeds for commercial use in the colony. Cannabis cultivation was a widely undertaken industry from the colonial beginnings up until the early 1920's when the Cannabis restrictions were implemented in accordance with the 1925 signing to the Geneva Convention on Opium and other drugs....