Category Archives: Drug Crimes
Pre-Recorded Buy Money: A Timeless, Low-Tech Forensic Tactic
Everyone worries about money, and people disagree vehemently about the safest means of conducting transactions and keeping your money for future use. The proponents of cash concede that, if hundreds of dollars of banknotes fall out of your pocket or someone steals them from your purse, you have little hope of recovering the money,… Read More »
Legal Cognitive Dissonance Isn’t Just For Cannabis Anymore
If you fell asleep in a drug-induced haze 15 years ago and woke up today, you would be surprised at what you saw. Today, people walk into cannabis dispensaries in Florida and buy cannabis edibles with the same nonchalance with which, in an hour’s time when the munchies set in, they will walk into… Read More »
Can Illegal Behavior Be A Side Effect Of Legal Medications?
All drugs can have side effects, but most of them are mild and do not add interesting plot twists to your tales of illness and recovery. For example, the painkillers that doctors give you after surgery might put you in a weird mood where you say things that you wouldn’t say in your right… Read More »
Police Arrest Hernando County Man For Possession Of Ketamine-Stuffed Candles
There are plenty of perfectly legal reasons that someone would buy a lot of candles. Perhaps the buyer is in the business of hosting birthday parties for the elderly, who are plentiful in Florida. Maybe the owner of many candles would rather host parties for creatures whose life span is much shorter than that… Read More »
Meg’s Law Aims To Restrict Sale Of Nitrous Oxide
Inhalant abuse is nothing new, but as with so many categories of drugs, abuse patterns change according to which substances are easily available. Kids who attended elementary school in the 1980s, at the height of the War on Drugs, remember how good rubber cement smelled, and you could find a jar of it in… Read More »
Sheriff’s Deputies Seize Pill Presses And MDMA After Executing Search Warrant
From a legal perspective, MDMA is a Schedule I controlled substance, always illegal and never permissible for medical use. By this logic, it is just like heroin. To some people, though, MDMA is a wonder drug. A tiny dose might be able to cure post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or opioid addiction. Cannabis is still… Read More »
Illegal Distribution Of Pharmaceuticals That Are Not Controlled Substances
The risks associated with pharmaceutical drugs determine whether pharmacies or other retailers can legally sell them over the counter, or whether patients can only receive them by a doctor’s prescription, and a licensed pharmacist or pharmacy technician must dispense them directly to the patient, often requiring the patient to sign to receive the medication… Read More »
What Happens If Cannabis Becomes A Schedule III Controlled Substance?
Part of Florida’s charm is that nothing here makes sense; it has a way of becoming home, much like the Wonderland where Alice met the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat, so that you no longer miss places where things are predictable. Even in the 1990s, when legalizing cannabis sounded like, quite literally, a… Read More »
An Innocent Looking Vehicle Inside A Suspicious Looking Vehicle
Buses hold a certain mystique for young children. Consider that “The Wheels on the Bus” is one of the first songs that most children learn. Little children who must ride in car seats in their parents’ cars, or in strollers when their parents travel on foot, perk up when they see big kids waiting… Read More »
Drugged Driving In The Age Of Semi-Legal Cannabis
Cannabis enthusiasts who, a generation ago, only daydreamed about an era of legal cannabis have seen most of their wishes come true. Even though federal law and Florida law still list cannabis as a Schedule I controlled substance, meaning that it is always illegal and does not have any recognized medical uses, Florida has… Read More »