Category Archives: Drug Offenses
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 »
Drug Sales To Undercover Cops Do Not Always Lead To An Immediate Arrest
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 »
Is It Legal To Own A Pill Press?
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 »
Clinical Trials For Medical LSD Are In Progress
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 »
Undercover Police Buy Hallucinogens From Uber Driver
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 »
What’s In Store For Florida Cannabis Laws In 2024?
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 »
The Entrapment Defense And Drug Cases
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 »
