Category Archives: Drug Crimes
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 »
Defending Yourself Against Charges Of Drug Possession With Intent To Deliver
It is impossible to know what someone else is thinking, even when the person speaks at length and there is an abundance of nonverbal context clues. You are acutely aware of this when you reread the text messages your crush has sent you in recent weeks, and with every reading, you become less certain… Read More »
Florida’s Kratom Ban Means Increased Scrutiny Of Consumers And Smoke Shops
In the 1990s, you knew you were cool if you had a neon sign in the shape of a cannabis leaf casting a deep green glow from the window of your dorm room or duplex. These days, cannabis is legal in so many situations in the parts of Florida that matter the most to… Read More »
Anonymous Tips To Police Leave Room For Reasonable Doubt
When someone faces you in court and makes accusations against you, you have the right to refute these accusations; this is one of the axioms of justice. It takes more than an accusation to trigger a punishment for a crime, even if the accuser risks his or her own reputation to accuse you. An… Read More »
How Much Immunity Do You Get By Being An Informant?
Some people out there will tell you that anyone who takes a plea deal is a chump, but most of them have never faced criminal charges punishable by imprisonment. You might even have seen billboards or late-night TV ads for criminal defense firms that promise to get you acquitted. Yes, you have the Constitutional… Read More »