> Can you provide a citation for drugs not being strict liability? In any jurisdiction where the drug is not legal, mere possession is cause for arrest.

Strict liability isn't about whether they can arrest you, it's about what they have to prove to convict you.

And, actually, I suspect that is a bad example and that a lot of drug laws are NOT strict liability. See: https://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2011/07/floridas-%E2%8...)

DUI/DWI, for example, is pretty universally strict liability, though. This leads to the occasional bizarre case where someone sleeping it off in their car gets charged and convicted for a DUI even though they weren't driving but were simply behind the wheel.

Off the top of my head I can't cite chapter and verse. The possession of drugs will almost certainly result in an arrest everywhere. However, most states where I have had contact with the legal system about this, good defense lawyers have lots of maneuvering room, and the court allows lots of mitigating circumstances (if they really aren't yours generally you have enough corroboration to limit the problem).

Possession of child pornography gets no such latitude.