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Luke Costin and Maeve Bannister

UNBELIEVABLE: Moral panic over as nsw shifts on personal drug use | History Defined

NSW Police will be able to use non-criminal measures for people caught with small drug amounts. (Samantha Lock/AAP PHOTOS)

Drug users caught with small amounts of illicit substances will have the option to get counselling or pay a fine rather than go to court under a major overhaul of NSW laws.

From early next year police can choose the non-criminal measures when catching people with personal-use quantities of MDMA, cocaine and ice.

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