Australians are world renowned for the relaxed “she’ll be right attitude”. And, Australia is famous for its worldwide tourist marketing campaigns based on the Aussies’ love of beer, barbecues and thongs. It is hardly surprising they like a toke as well. Over the last decade, Australians have progressively changed their attitude to legalising cannabis use in Australia.

Aussies are relaxing their attitude to the legalisation of cannabis as recent research shows. Early in 2015, Roy Morgan Research released its latest research on Aussie’s attitudes to this hotly contested topic. They asked Aussies aged 14 upwards – “In your opinion should the smoking of marijuana be made legal – or remain illegal?” The results showed support for legalising marijuana rose to 31.8% in 2014 from 26.8% in 2004. Most support came from the 18 – 24 age group with 35.7% supporting its legalisation. Interestingly, those aged over 65 had a growth rate of almost 50% from 16.9% in 2004 to 25.5% most recently. This age group had the largest overall increase for legalisation of cannabis.

Aussie’s are world famous for their relaxed attitudes to most things, and smoking pot tends to be one of them though it is a criminal offence in most states. Decriminalisation for the possession of small amounts of pot still carries a civil penalty…