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Category Archives: Drug Crimes

AreYouSerious

“Possession Is Nine Tenths Of The Law” Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means

By Scriven Law, P.A. |

Some legal phrases have become part of the popular lexicon, and it is a good thing that they pop into people’s heads when they are facing criminal charges or are at risk of being charged.  You have the right to remain silent.  Innocent until proven guilty.  Reasonable doubt.  Due process of law.  You may… Read More »

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Drug8

Sarasota County Defendants Face Drug Trafficking Charges After Drug Bust At Home

By Scriven Law, P.A. |

All over Central Florida, people have illegal drugs in their houses; police do not know where these drugs are and in what quantities, and they have little way of finding out.  This is because the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits unlawful search and seizure of private property.  Many arrests for drug… Read More »

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Ketamine

Is Ketamine The Next Great Hope For Addiction Treatment?

By Scriven Law, P.A. |

Ketamine is a Schedule III controlled substance, but the schedule number of a drug does not tell you much about it.  Except for Schedule I drugs, all controlled substances are legal for medical use at least sometimes, and the law considers all controlled substances dangerous enough that it does not allow manufacturers to offer… Read More »

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Drug7

P2P Is Like Methamphetamine But Much More Potent

By Scriven Law, P.A. |

Those “just say no” slogans from the 1980s and the “your brain on drugs” public service announcements from the 1990s may be laughable, but old folks are onto something when they say that the drugs they messed around with when they were not as dangerous as the drugs on the street today.  No, Grandpa,… Read More »

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CourtGavel

Lawmakers Aim To End Sentencing Disparity Between Crack Cocaine And Powder Cocaine Cases

By Scriven Law, P.A. |

If you ask most people today which drug is the most dangerous, most will say that it is fentanyl.  This makes sense because fentanyl causes more overdose deaths than any other drug, and because most people who consume fentanyl do not know that they are consuming it; they think they are getting methamphetamine, heroin,… Read More »

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LadyJustice

The Mostly Harmless Substances That Can Make Your Opioid Case Much Worse

By Scriven Law, P.A. |

The scare campaigns of the War on Drugs included classroom lessons where teachers warned children that, as dangerous as illegal drugs could be, the unknown substances that drug dealers mixed with them could be even more dangerous.  For example, teachers in the 1980s would tell students that, instead of cocaine, the white powder that… Read More »

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PrescriptionDrug

How Will The CDC’s New Opioid Prescribing Guidelines Affect Drug Crime?

By Scriven Law, P.A. |

No one wants to go back to the days of Florida’s pill mills, when if your car had enough life left in it to cross state lines into Florida, you could go to a pain clinic in any strip mall, offer the flimsiest excuse about why you were there, and walk away with enough… Read More »

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Syringe

Researchers Publish Study On Fentanyl Vaccine

By Scriven Law, P.A. |

Fentanyl is scary, and getting criminal charges for drug crimes is scary, so getting criminal charges for possession of fentanyl is the scariest of all.  Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is about 50 times as strong as morphine; fatal overdoses have been reported where adult victims ingested as little as two milligrams of… Read More »

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CriminalLaw

Florida Tianeptine Laws

By Scriven Law, P.A. |

Call them research chemicals, designer drugs, bath salts, cleaning solvents, or potpourri, but drug analogues are illegal drugs in all but name.  Synthetic cannabinoids and synthetic opioids are akin to the homemade copycat versions of Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets or Chipotle barbacoa that you perfected in your kitchen during the COVID-19 lockdown.  Sure, you can… Read More »

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Arrested5

When Are You Immune From Prosecution For Drug Charges?

By Scriven Law, P.A. |

Paranoia can be a side effect of some illegal drugs, but given the draconian punishments you can get for possession of even the smallest quantities of most illegal drugs, your fear of every blue light flashing in the distance and every cell phone camera pointed in your direction is quite reasonable.  In many cases,… Read More »

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