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Drug Sales To Undercover Cops Do Not Always Lead To An Immediate Arrest

By William Wallshein P.A. |

In the movies, you often see undercover police officers buy drugs from a career drug dealer, or even from an everyman whose financial circumstances have gotten so bad that he is willing to sell his prescription ADHD pills, and as soon as the money and the drugs have changed hands, the police flash their… Read More »

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Is It Legal To Own A Pill Press?

By William Wallshein P.A. |

The identifying characteristic of drug paraphernalia is that it is an ordinary item that, by itself, is perfectly legal to own, but circumstances surrounding the police’s discovery of the item in your possession lead them to suspect that you are using it for the consumption, manufacture, or distribution of illegal drugs.  A pipe is… Read More »

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Clinical Trials For Medical LSD Are In Progress

By William Wallshein P.A. |

If you smoked weed before or during the George W. Bush administration, then you remember a time when certain talkative stoners had a lot to say about the medicinal benefits of weed, and sometimes they could find people who agreed with them.  The logic back then, which became a major impetus for the medical… Read More »

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Undercover Police Buy Hallucinogens From Uber Driver

By William Wallshein P.A. |

Many arrests for felony drug offenses, such as drug trafficking, occur as the result of undercover police operations.  Confidential informants or undercover officers buy drugs from defendants on several occasions, usually after communicating with them by text message or secretly recording their phone conversations with the defendants.  Once the police have enough evidence to… Read More »

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What’s In Store For Florida Cannabis Laws In 2024?

By William Wallshein P.A. |

It has been a long time since anyone has gotten arrested in Palm Beach County simply for having a small bag of weed in their pocket, but Florida continues to operate under a set of sometimes ambiguous and sometimes contradictory laws about cannabis.  Those laws are always changing, as some legislators want to place… Read More »

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The Entrapment Defense And Drug Cases

By William Wallshein P.A. |

Defendants in criminal cases sometimes base their defenses on the concept of illegal search and seizure, a practice forbidden by the Fourth Amendment.  In other words, they claim that they committed the crime, but the police had no right to catch them doing it.  For example, this defense applies if a defendant had illegal… Read More »

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Pink Cocaine Isn’t Cocaine, And It Isn’t Always Pink

By William Wallshein P.A. |

There’s a new drug making an appearance in South Florida’s nightclubs, except that it is not all that new; the drug was first synthesized in 1974, which means that it is possible for you to be a full 20 years younger than the drug and still be too old to go to nightclubs.  Meanwhile,… Read More »

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Drug Possession Charges Are Much Worse When A Child Is Present

By William Wallshein P.A. |

Drug possession with intent to sell is a much more serious charge than simple possession.  When defendants get charged with possession with intent to sell, defense lawyers are sometimes able to arrange plea deals that reduce the charges to simple possession if the quantity of drugs found in the defendant’s residence or car was… Read More »

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Will The Court Give You A Lighter Sentence Because Of Your Family Caregiving Obligations?

By William Wallshein P.A. |

Artistic representations sometimes personify justice as a blindfolded woman, but when it comes to imposing sentences in criminal court, judges see the person, not just the crime.  Some offenses have mandatory minimum sentences, but except for those requirements, judges have some leeway in determining the sentences of defendants who plead guilty or are convicted… Read More »

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Federal Government Considers Removing Cannabis From Schedule I Controlled Substances Category

By William Wallshein P.A. |

Controlled substances are drugs considered dangerous enough that the law subjects their sale and consumption to more restrictions than it does with ordinary consumer products.  The Controlled Substances Act classifies controlled substances into five different categories, known as schedules.  Schedules II through V are pharmaceutical drugs with approved medical uses, but which also have… Read More »

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