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How Scary Is Isotonitazene From A Medical And Legal Perspective?
Baby Boomers remember a time when heroin was considered the ultimate drug, the most intoxicating substance known to man. The book Wired describes how, on the set of Saturday Night Live in the 1970s, the cast considered cocaine and marijuana good clean fun, and John Belushi just happened to enjoy these fun substances even… Read More »
Florida Pharma Bro Faces Drug Trafficking Charges For Manufacturing Counterfeit Promethazine-Codeine Cough Syrup
Everything and everyone in Florida is fake. When was the last time you saw a Floridian’s natural hair color or genuine expression of emotion? In the winter, Floridians pelt each other with snowballs made of fake snow, and in the summer, they sport fake tans, even though there is more than enough sunshine to… Read More »
Two Women Charged With Trafficking Methamphetamine After Controlled Buy
Your high school drug buddies probably used to exchange stories about how they got caught smoking weed or how they hid their habits in plain sight. Perhaps they traded stories about which over the counter eye drops were best for hiding the signs of cannabis intoxication in one’s eyes, and one friend may have… Read More »
Sheriff’s Deputies Seize Four Pounds Of MDMA From Hotel Room
The market for illegal drugs is always changing, much more quickly than drug laws change. The so-called crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s now seems like ancient history. If your school curriculum included sessions in health class dedicated to recreational drugs and how to avoid them, the teachers’ information about drugs probably seemed woefully… Read More »
Ocala Man Pleads Guilty To Possession With Intent To Distribute After Police Find His DNA At The Crime Scene
In early 2019, Glenn Edward Davis, Jr. of Ocala was 32 years old, and he already had 14 felony convictions on his record; the Department of Justice did not say what the felonies on his record were or how much time, if any, Davis had served in prison. Because of his criminal record, he… Read More »
South Florida Nutritional Supplement Salesmen Convicted Of Illegally Distributing Anabolic Steroids
Now that the Olympic Games are in session, the media has once again turned its attention to performance-enhancing drugs, but in Florida, we never forgot about them. In certain parts of Florida, especially near beaches and gyms, it is a common occurrence to see people with such muscular physiques that you wonder if they… Read More »
Fentanyl Dealer Sentenced To 19 Years After Police Chase Across Indian River County
Those social media posts about people needing to be revived with naloxone after accidentally touching a grain of fentanyl powder are not factual, but it is true that fentanyl is so powerful that ingesting a tiny dose can be fatal. Fentanyl is approximately 100 times as strong as morphine, making it much more potent… Read More »
Tampa Man Gets Prison Sentence For Selling Cocaine And Firearms To Confidential Informant
Movies about the criminal underworld make confidential informants look like cool antiheroes, but acting as an informant in a drug investigation is a delicate balancing act. The ideal plea deal would be one that enables you to serve your probation or your relatively brief prison sentence and then move on with your life. Being… Read More »
How Prior Convictions Can Affect Your Current Drug Case
If you plead not guilty in a criminal case, you have the right to a fair trial with twelve unbiased jurors. One way that the courts protect against juror bias is by letting your lawyer and the prosecution speak up if they think that a prospective juror has already made up their mind, before… Read More »
Flagler County Woman Investigated For Selling Drugs Out Of Animal Rescue Facility
Medications for humans and animals are not interchangeable. You may have heard about experimental treatments where doctors give veterinary drugs for humans, but these are the exception, rather than the rule. Your dog’s vet might even have given you the okay to share an over-the-counter topical or oral medication with your furry friend from… Read More »
