I was recently speaking to someone who spent a few years in Australia. They commented on their impression of Australian youth as being a pretty worthless lot, as they grow their own weed and spend all day sitting around smoking it.
Doesn't sound like a very successful experiment.
In the late 1990's when I was there, the dole was about double of what you'd get here in the UK and at the time Australia was a fairly cheap place to live. So it was fairly common for youngsters to 'drop out' and go and live near the beach, spending their time smoking weed, drinking beer, surfing and having sex.
The upside of all this Aussie depravity was that there was loads of casual work about, so you could pitch up somewhere find a job and get your head down for a few weeks to save some money, before going off somewhere to blow it on some hedonistic adventures!