Quantity thresholds are widely used in drug policy and law around the world to help determine how an individual caught in possession of illegal drugs should be dealt with. There is however, significant variety in policy and practice, not only in the level at which thresholds are set for different drugs in different jurisdictions, but also the purpose of such thresholds, how they are administered, and the sanctions deployed once any threshold-guided determination has been reached.

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