Category Archives: Drug Crime
Department Of Health And Human Services Recommends Rescheduling Cannabis At The Federal Level
Laws about cannabis reflect a lack of agreement about the contexts in which cannabis is beneficial, those in which it is a harmless vice, and those in which it is dangerous. Some states have enacted cannabis laws where legal cannabis products bear as little resemblance to the marijuana prized by the 1960s counterculture as… Read More »
Westmoreland County Woman Arrested For Trying To Buy Methamphetamine From Undercover Officer
Methamphetamine might not get a lot of press these days, but it is still plenty addictive and plenty illegal. It seems like a lifetime ago that Nic Sheff wrote Tweak, a memoir about his experiences with methamphetamine addiction, and his father David wrote his own memoir Beautiful Boy, telling the same events from his… Read More »
When Do Police Have The Right To Search Your Backpack For Drugs?
If you are going to travel across state lines with illegal drugs, it would appear that you have a better chance of getting away with it if you travel by bus. Given all the security scanners and baggage inspections at airports, it is difficult to bring drugs onto a plane undetected. If you travel… Read More »
Drug Cases Involving Schools Or Students
School is where most of us first heard of drugs. After a lesson in which a teacher who could only be described as middle-aged by the most charitable of interlocutors told you that cannabis is also known as marijuana, pot, and reefer, you may have noticed, as you were leaving school that afternoon, that… Read More »
What Does It Mean When There Is An Active Warrant Out For Your Arrest?
When you see the blue lights of a police car flashing for you to pull over, your mind races with possibilities of what kinds of accusations the police could make against you. If the only thing the officer is sure you did wrong was violate a traffic law, then if you play it cool,… Read More »
Should You Be Afraid Of Super Meth?
For the past few years, the opioid epidemic has been getting all the publicity, as the nation witnessed a surge in overdoses on prescription opioids, followed by heroin overdoses, followed by accidental overdoses on a variety of drugs adulterated with fentanyl unbeknownst to the people consuming them. Meanwhile, stimulants such as methamphetamine are still… Read More »
Jury Finds Two Stroudsburg Residents Guilty Of Drug Delivery Resulting In Death
Most drug overdoses are accidents; the instances where one person gives another person illegal drugs in the hopes that the recipient will suffer an overdose are very rare. Despite this, it is possible for the state to file criminal charges against people who, through their extreme carelessness, cause catastrophic accidents. For example, if you… Read More »
Two Search Warrants In New Castle Lead To Charges Of Possession With Intent To Deliver
Many drug crimes cases begin with a traffic stop. Police can pull you over if you break a traffic law, even if it is for something minor like having a broken taillight or changing lanes without using a turn signal. Then they can decide that a perfectly ordinary item in your car, such as… Read More »
Is Medical Ketamine The New Medical Cannabis?
Thirty years ago, Dr. Dre’s The Chronic blasted from the stereo system of every car where the air inside the vehicle was noticeably thicker than the air outside the vehicle. During boring classes, high school students would doodle pot leaves in their notebooks and write “legalize it” in stylized letters. Elsewhere, old friends in… Read More »
Western Pennsylvania Father And Son Get Prison Sentences And Federal Supervised Release For Cocaine Trafficking Operation
Ask anyone who has served a prison sentence what helped them get through it, and many of them will say that it was frequent visits from their family or looking forward to going home and sitting at the family dinner table after their release. Your family can be a huge source of emotional support… Read More »
