Category Archives: Drug Offenses
Why All The Fuss About Gabapentin, If It Isn’t A Controlled Substance?
This sounds like something that happened in Florida, but in fact, it happened in Pennsylvania. A man would call doctors who had previously treated his girlfriend, saying that she was having a seizure and needed a prescription for gabapentin immediately. The doctor would call in a prescription to a pharmacy, and the man would… Read More »
Can You Get Criminal Charges For Chroming?
Every week, the news media comes up with something new for adults to panic about, usually something apparently dangerous that teenagers are doing on social media. This week, the Internet is abuzz about chroming, which the young generation apparently thinks it invented, if the news reports are to be believed. Of course, chroming is… Read More »
Iso, Fentanyl’s Scarier Cousin, Makes An Appearance In Palm Beach County
It is hard to imagine a scarier drug than fentanyl. In a medical setting, it is safe, because the doses are tiny, and doctors and nurses carefully monitor patients who are receiving fentanyl so that they can reverse its effects if a patient begins to show signs of respiratory depression. On the street, though,… Read More »
How Easy Is It For Forensic Science To Tell Which Twin Did It?
DNA testing revolutionized forensic science. It brought resolution to cold cases and exonerated wrongfully convicted people who had previously had nothing to support their claims besides their own certainty that they were telling the truth. Video recordings have also enabled prosecutors to make more accurate claims. There is much more room for doubt about… Read More »
South Florida Entrepreneur Who Avoided Conviction On Drug Charges Faces New Case
If you get arrested on suspicion of a crime, it could mean that your life will never be the same. The only way that your case can truly go away is if you get acquitted at trial or if the court dismisses the charges; the latter scenario is more common, since only a small… Read More »
Who’s Afraid Of Scopolamine?
One might argue that the legal status of various drugs is based on lawmakers’ subjective associations with them. It is not hard to find documentaries about how the media spread stereotypes about various ethnic minorities being fond of various intoxicating substances, and how this was the catalyst for the criminalization of these drugs. The… Read More »
Ketamine’s Hellish Cousin Is Gaining A Foothold In Florida
If you had surgery at an outpatient surgery clinic, chances are that you were not asleep through the entire procedure. The surgeon might have talked to you, and you might have understood. Perhaps you even responded, or maybe you just gibbered like a Minion, in response to an interlocutor visible only to you. If… Read More »
Deerfield Beach Man Pleads Guilty To Purchasing Large Shipment Of Synthetic Opioids From China
Two entire generations have grown up hearing that you should stay away from drug mixtures purchased on the street, because what looks like Studio 54 grade cocaine could be a mixture of rat poison and broken glass. It also seems like a lifetime ago that the talking heads on TV were saying that fentanyl… Read More »
Are Roommates Guilty By Association?
The nice thing about having enough money to rent your own apartment is not having to deal with shady roommates. It is hard to live with your own family, much less people you didn’t know very well before moving in together. It is bad enough when your roommates leave dirty dishes in the sink,… Read More »
Beware Of The New Synthetic Cathinone In South Florida’s Drug Supply
Most Floridians have never heard of khat, a plant whose stimulant properties can be tapped by chewing the leaves; chewing khat has been a popular recreational activity in Yemen and parts of East Africa for centuries. The drug has never caught on in the United States, since cathinone, the active ingredient in khat, is… Read More »
