Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 from "death with dignity" and right to die groups who saw it as a model to be followed elsewhere, and widespread condemnation from euthanasia opponents, such as right to life groups, who sought to overturn it. Opponents also included the Australian Medical Association, and the Bishop of Darwin, Edmund John Patrick Collins. While the law was in effect, four people died by suicide through its provisions. The first was carpenter Bob Dent, 66, who died on 22 September 1996. Dent was a prostate cancer sufferer who became Australia's first person to lawfully end his life by means of physician assisted
Decriminalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States average of $11.3 billion per year on courts, police, prison guards and other related expenses. Studies on decriminalization of marijuana in Portugal have indicated it to be a "huge success". Drug use rates in Portugal were found to be dramatically lower than the United States with decriminalization enacted. Teenage use of marijuana in the Netherlands where it is sold legally and openly is lower than in the United States. Uruguay became the first country in the world to completely legalize cannabis in 2013. Some people are in favor of decriminalization and legalization of marijuana simply for the moral stance that