Category Archives: Drug Crimes
If Gabapentin Isn’t A Controlled Substance, Is Gabapentin Abuse A Crime?
Whether a drug is listed as a controlled substance is not determined entirely by its chemical composition; it is whether federal and state authorities consider the drug dangerous enough to subject it to tighter restrictions than those surrounding most pharmaceutical drugs. If extraterrestrials were to arrive in Florida and examine the molecular structure of… Read More »
Why Worry About Mega Opioids When There Is Rhino Tranq?
Mass communication and the ease of air travel have flattened many of the differences that make each city in the world unique. You can travel almost anywhere and find kids eating some of the same packaged snack foods, cheering for the same sports teams, and laughing at the same Internet memes as the ones… Read More »
Getting Caught With Drugs Isn’t A Fluke If It Happens Multiple Times
If you get arrested for drug possession for the first time, there is still time to reverse course. Silently count the minutes until you can meet privately with a criminal defense lawyer, and then a world of possibilities will open up. The whole thing may blow over quickly; the court may simply dismiss your… Read More »
Is Medical Molly The New Medical Marijuana? Not Yet!
A certain type of entrepreneurial mind thrives on the cultivation of brand identity; there is a reason that marketing is such a popular college major. For such people, designing logos, store décor, and product names for medical cannabis dispensaries must be an endless source of inspiration, even if they have never smoked a joint… Read More »
Yes, You Can Get Pretrial Diversion For A Nonviolent Felony
If you get charged with drug possession, and you do not have a prior criminal record, you might be able to resolve your case through drug court, a pretrial diversion program where you can complete probation and drug counseling, and if you do so successfully, the court will drop your charges. What if you… Read More »
Scopolamine Can Cause Plenty Of Legal Trouble Without Officially Being A Controlled Substance
Of the many drugs available only by prescription, only the ones considered to have substantial potential for abuse are on the controlled substances list. Even though you can’t just buy boring prescription drugs like Metformin off of the drugstore shelf, the law does not consider it tempting enough to list it as a controlled… Read More »
Is “Embalming Fluid” The Next Big Thing In Florida’s Drug Supply?
Every so often, you hear about a new drug making an appearance in Florida’s drug supply; often, it is just an old drug known by a new nickname. Recently, a man got arrested at the Sol Fest music festival in Florida, because he bit a sheriff’s deputy while high on drugs, and one of… Read More »
Is Medical LSD The New Medical Cannabis?
Almost every Schedule I controlled substance was once a legitimate pharmaceutical drug, a popular social lubricant, or both before the Controlled Substances Act came to town in 1970. In the plants’ native ranges, people have been smoking cannabis and chewing khat for centuries, if not for millennia. Even before heroin gave midcentury jazz its… Read More »
This Year In Florida Cannabis Legislation
You wouldn’t know it from the smell of weed wafting from every living room and every pool deck in Tampa, but cannabis is still mostly illegal in Florida. So much has changed with cannabis laws that it is understandable that you can hardly keep track of all the latest developments, even if you have… Read More »
“Altered Molly,” A New Synthetic Cathinone, Takes Over Florida
Today, it is possible to benefit from the research of scientists from all around the world, simply by searching the Internet. You can find thousands upon thousands of published studies with a simple Google search, some of them on websites that do not even require a subscription, and if you read them carefully enough,… Read More »