Category Archives: Drug Crime Defense
School Custodian Faces Charges for Drug Possession
If you are too old to find the phrase “six seven” entertaining, then you probably get a kick out of droning, “Drugs are bad,” in a faux old person voice. It is in school where many of us first heard adults whom the generation above us would have described as “square” scold us about… Read More »
Student Faces Drug Trafficking Charges After Drug Bust in Dorm
Living in a college dormitory is an unpleasant experience for most people. You might have to room with an intolerant neatnik or a stinky slob. No matter who the university matches you with, it is uncomfortable to share a small space with someone who, until a few weeks ago, was a complete stranger. There… Read More »
South Florida Recording Artist Faces Criminal Charges for Drug Possession
In 2025 in South Florida, possession of 20 grams of cannabis seems like the least of anyone’s concerns. Possession of that quantity is legal in Florida’s most populous counties under many circumstances. Likewise, police might stop you if you drive too fast, but you are much less likely to get a ticket for driving… Read More »
The Barbeque Restaurant That Smoked More Than Just Ribs
The tourist brochures highlight the white sand beaches of Florida’s Gulf Coast and the riverbanks where alligators sun themselves, but they do not show the Sunshine State’s true beauty. If you’ve seen one mangrove swamp, you’ve seen them all, but where Florida truly shines is its small businesses, its independently owned eateries. The best… Read More »
The Last Days of THCA in Florida
The good news is that, now that the federal government shutdown in faraway Washington, D.C. has ended, your SNAP benefits will continue uninterrupted, but the bad news is that it will be harder to get the munchies to enjoy your EBT purchases. The bad news is that the legislation that enabled the federal government… Read More »
Drug Charges Incidental to Social Media Stunts
Every seasoned pothead knows that the best way to avoid getting criminal charges for drugs is to keep your drug use safely concealed in the privacy of your home. As long as you smoke weed while sitting on the couch in your living room, or in the couch of your drug buddy’s living room,… Read More »
What If You and the Prosecution Disagree About Whether You Intended to Distribute the Drugs in Your Possession?
Drug possession is far from the worst criminal charge you can face. Many counties in Florida, including Orange County, have drug court programs, which are pretrial diversion programs for drug possession cases. If you do not have any prior convictions, then drug court gives you the chance to get your charges dropped by entering… Read More »
Florida DMT Laws
People’s accounts of their psychedelic experiences under the influence of hallucinogenic or entheogenic drugs tend to share some common tropes, despite that these experiences have occurred on every inhabited continent and across centuries. They report feeling like they traveled to other worlds, either in the flesh or outside their bodies. Some of them see… Read More »
7-OH May Remain in Florida’s Legal Drug Supply Even After Its Classification as a Schedule I Controlled Substance
Some of the most dangerous drugs in the world are legal for medical use in the United States, at least in theory. Fentanyl has caused more overdose deaths in recent years than any other drug; it has become a byword for the deadliest wave of the decades-old opioid addiction epidemic. Despite this, it is… Read More »
Legal Possession of Cannabis Can Still Mean Criminal Charges for Drugged Driving
Just as young people today will never know the joy of receiving the gift of a mixtape of songs your friend taped off the radio, they will also never know the thrill of trying to argue that you have not been smoking weed, against all evidence to the contrary. My eyes are red because… Read More »
