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Talking to the police about your potential involvement in a drug crime can be a stressful experience, even if you’re completely innocent. But you can prepare yourself for such encounters by knowing your rights. In the following article, we’ll explain your rights when being questioned…
Drug crimes can take many forms. From possessing, to selling, to trafficking controlled substances, there are many ways that a person can be pulled over and charged. Penalties get worse as quantities of a controlled substance increase and as more and more offenses are added…
Law enforcement agencies will usually choose to open narcotics investigations into suspected dealers or distributors—they rarely investigate mere drug use. Since police departments and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) have limited resources, they in most cases investigate people who are suspected of moving large quantities…
Governor Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 1449 into law on October 1, 2010. The bill was one of several legislative initiatives about marijuana introduced in the wake of the 1996 Compassionate Use Act (CUA), which made the use and cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes legal….
This year, there has been an explosion of hospital visits related to the use of synthetic marijuana. Usually, a few hundred patients per month come to emergency rooms across the US after becoming ill from consuming synthetic marijuana. But since April of this year, there…
After nearly 20 years since voters approved Proposition 215, the California State Assembly on Sept. 11 finally has adopted a comprehensive statewide regulatory framework for medical marijuana — and made it clear to law enforcement that medical marijuana is legal and here to stay. Up…
In California penitentiaries, the drug problem continues to grow. Over the past decade, drug use has grown dramatically, with one out of four inmates testing positive for illegal substances last year. Deaths due to drug overdoses in California prisons are triple the average in the…
California has long been one of the most forward-thinking states in regards to marijuana. California became the first state to legalize its use for patients who needed the drug to treat conditions like seizures and cancer in 1996. Proposition 215, also known as the Compassionate…