Category Archives: Drug Offenses
Can There Be Reasonable Doubt That You Sold Drugs To An Undercover Police Officer?
If police catch you with a large quantity of a controlled substance in your possession, the odds are in your favor that you can get the charges downgraded to simple possession, provided that the quantity of the drugs was the only thing that made prosecutors believe that you intended to sell them. Things are… Read More »
Drug Delivery Resulting In Death
The after-school specials that were the bread and butter of aspiring actors and television producers in the 1980s and an inexhaustible source of stoner entertainment in the 1990s and beyond draw a short and direct line between first experimentation with illicit drugs and an early and painful death. In real life, the path is… Read More »
Introducing Medetomidine, The Most Recent Addition To The Illegal Drug Supply
For good reason, most people consider opioids the hardest of hard drugs. They are among the most addictive substances around; perhaps only nicotine, the active ingredient in tobacco, is more addictive. Opioid overdose can cause life-threatening respiratory depression, and for the past several years, the synthetic opioid fentanyl has caused more fatal overdoses than… Read More »
What Does The Decline In Fentanyl Deaths Mean For Your Drug Case?
Fear has always been a key ingredient in the criminal process when it comes to drug cases. At trials, prosecutors play on jurors’ fears of how things might have gotten worse if police had not arrested the defendant and confiscated the drugs when they did? They say, “This bag of powder contained fentanyl. If… Read More »
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 »
