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Excerpt from Attorney Ralph Behr’s Book. Street Smarts- Criminal Law 1.01 – What is Trafficking?

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WHAT IS TRAFFICKING?

Possession with the intent to sell or deliver any illegal drug (usually more than a personal use amount) or controlled substance is trafficking.

It commonly is understood to mean you have enough of the ‘stuff’ to be “in the business”, and a transfer to someone.   But, depending on what it is, and where you live, you can be a trafficker by giving away one pill.

Trafficking begins at 5 grams for federal law.  Some States: 28 grams.

If you knowingly sell, buy, deliver (giving away a pill is a delivery) a controlled substance (anything illegal, anything that requires a prescription from a doctor), you can be convicted of trafficking.

Ever ‘borrow’ a sleeping pill?  Pain medication?  Give it to someone?    Re-read the definition of trafficking: you are a trafficker.   Scary stuff, huh?

 

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