Consuming Pleasures: Australia and the International Drug BusinessConsuming Pleasures traces the international and Australian history of licit and illicit drug use. It examines why we consume and what we consume, as well as the way in which consumption is regulated in the era of global free trade. It also looks at drug use from an Australian perspective, going back to our own opium growing industry and the racist origins of our drug laws. In doing so, it considers the paradox of contemporary white Australian