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Drug traffickers to face possibility of life in prison after loophole in SA drug laws closed

A loophole in South Australia's drug laws that could have seen serious criminals charged with lesser offences has been closed.

Under the previous laws, people who trafficked large quantities of a drug in its pure form could only be charged with a basic trafficking offence, which carried a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

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