Category Archives: Drug Offenses
Drug Shipments Sent Through The Mail
You know you are old if you spent your childhood daydreaming about being able to mail order the wondrous items that you saw advertised on the backs on cereal boxes. If you sent a certain number of box tops, plus a check or money order for a modest sum of money, you could have… Read More »
Executive Order Authorizes Research On Ibogaine
When lawmakers took up the issue of medical cannabis, they were seeking to formalize in the law what people had always known, namely that cannabis can stimulate appetite and reduce anxiety, and that, as with any drug, using it for medical purposes is a matter of weighing the risks and the benefits. Medical research… Read More »
Welcome To The Era Of Schedule III Cannabis
Medical science is more dynamic than people outside the medical profession realize. This is why, before you file a medical malpractice lawsuit, your lawyer must consult three physicians who have recent clinical experience, review your medical records and write statements about what they would have done in the defendant physician’s situation. These corroborating experts… Read More »
Could Meg’s Law Be The Solution To Florida’s Nitrous Oxide Crisis?
Whether an object is an item of drug paraphernalia or a harmless implement is often a matter of perspective. You can use a small spoon to snort cocaine or heat heroin, if you are so inclined, but the more obvious use for it is to stir coffee or eat ice cream. Yes, there are… Read More »
Look Out, Florida, Here Comes Flysky
Visits to the vet are stressful for pets and their human handlers alike. Even though our animal friends do not have the language to tell us what is bothering them, they often receive diagnoses similar to the ones that human patients receive from physicians. They suffer from the aches and pains of old age… Read More »
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 »
