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- From: kkruse@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Korey J. Kruse)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: Fed Drug Laws RE: LSD
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:08:18 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- dpotosky@dewey.NMSU.Edu (David Potosky) writes:
-
- >Maybe some wiser person on the net can enlighten us as to the true penalties
- >for lsd.
- >As I understand it it is 10 years for a gram or more of LSD (paper weight
- >included) but you can get around this by having it broken up for
- >distribution....this sounds absurd.
- >Will someone comment on this and give us the the facts?
-
- I believe the law congress passed went something along these lines:
-
- "Possesion of 1 gram or more of a substance that contains a mixture
- including LSD is subject to a minumum penalty of 5 years in federal
- prison with no parole."
-
- I am not sure if possession of 2 grams necessarily implies 10 years or
- not. As most people who read alt.drugs know this is a very stupid law.
- It ends up punishing small time dealers while letting the big time LSD
- producers/dealers get away with less than the minumum. Small time
- dealers that put their acid on paper are subject to the penalty while
- a dealer who keeps his .999 gram of liquid lsd is not subject to the
- law. So a guy with a potential 5,000-12,000 hits of acid in 80-200
- microgram range can actually serve no time at all in prison if the judge
- so rules (not likely..but possible), but someone with 3 hits of acid
- that was put on sugar cubes has an automatic 5 years...no lawyer or
- judge can even help him now that the supreme court ruled that if
- congress wrote the law that way then thats the way they meant it. Only
- 2 justices dissented I believe so it seems we are stuck with this for
- a while.
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