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Daniel

You know, I never can seem to get the right scoop concerning what the Federal laws in the US are concerning posession, use and transportation of marijuana.

When and why would the Feds get involved concerning marijuana?


Thanks!

Daniel

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Megaweapon

Most often you'll get the feds involved when your importing drugs into the country or crossing state lines. Federal laws a very similar to state laws, and you can be charged on both the state and federal if your found to have broken both, but its rare. The federal drug equivalency punishment table for distributing, importing, exporting or trafficking harvested marijuana is as follows:

Weight (KG) ---------------- Prison (MO) ----------------- Fine ($)
less than .25 ------------------- 0-6 ------------------- 500-5,000
.25-.999 ------------------------ 0-6 ----------------- 1000-10,000
1 - 2.4 --------------------------- 6-12 ---------------- 2000-20,000
2.5-4.9 ------------------------- 10-16 --------------- 3000-30,000
5-9.9 --------------------------- 15-21 --------------- 4000-40,000
10-19 -------------------------- 21-27 --------------- 5000-50,000
20-39 -------------------------- 27-33 --------------- 6000-60,000
40-59 -------------------------- 33-41 ---------------- 7500-75,000
60-79 -------------------------- 41-51 ---------------- 7500-75,000
80-99 -------------------------- 51-63 ---------------- 10,000-100,000
100-399 ----------------------- 63-78 --------------- 12,500-125,000
400-699 ----------------------- 78-97---------------- 12,500-125,000
700-999 ----------------------- 97-121--------------- 15,000-150,000
1000-2,999 ----------------- 121-151 -------------- 17,500-175,000
3000-9,999 ----------------- 151-188 -------------- 17,500-175,000
10,000-29,999 ------------- 188-235 -------------- 20,000-200,000
30,000-99,999 ------------- 235-293 -------------- 25,000-250,000
100,000-299,999 ---------- 292-365 -------------- 25,000-250,000
300,000 or more ---------- 30 yrs-life ------------- 25,000-250,000

Simple possession <without intent to distribute> will land a first time offender a sentace of zero to one year in prison and a mandatory fine of $1000 , and there is no mandatory minimum for a first time conviction.

Hope that about answers your question. You really should pick up the book Marijuana Law by Richard Glen Boire, its a very informative book.

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Daniel

Thanks!

Appreciate what you showed me...

less than .25 ------------------- 0-6 ------------------- 500-5,000



Simple possession <without intent to distribute> will land a first time offender a sentace of zero to one year in prison and a mandatory fine of $1000

I know that I am looking into this too deep, but if simple possession had a mandatory fine of $1K, shouldn't the punishment above say 1000-5000?


I'd really like to see some statistics on how often people get convicted (federally) for marijuana. You don't hear about it much.