Top Half Moon Bay, CA Drug Possession Lawyers Near You
201 Spear Street, Suite 1198, San Francisco, CA 94105
1000 Brannan St, Suite 488, San Francisco, CA 94103
649 Main St, Suite 103, Box 207, Martinez, CA 94553
2950 Buskirk Avenue, Suite 300, Walnut Creek, CA 94597
95 3rd St, #2, San Francisco, CA 94103
1000 Brannan Street, Suite 400, San Francisco, CA 94103
803 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94710
5 Woodleaf Avenue, Redwood City, CA 94061
1196 Boulevard Way, Suite 20, Walnut Creek, CA 94595
870 Market Street, Suite 820, San Francisco, CA 94102
4330 Redwood Hwy., Suite 350, San Rafael, CA 94903
3650 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 225, Lafayette, CA 94549
2 Commercial Blvd, Suite 200B, Novato, CA 94949
1 Sansome Street, Suite 3500, San Francisco, CA 94104
1164 Solano Avenue, Albany, CA 94706
1934 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
1 Kaiser Plz, Ordway Building 1, Suite 2300, Oakland, CA 94612
1999 Harrison Street, Suite 1350, Oakland, CA 94612
1766 18th Street Suite A, San Francisco, CA 94107
456 8th Street, Oakland, CA 94607
333 Bradford St, Suite 190, Redwood City, CA 94063
990 Industrial Road Suite 209, San Carlos, CA 94070
233 Sansome Street, Suite 706, San Francisco, CA 94104
3223 Webster St, San Francisco, CA 94103
260 California Street, Suite 1002, San Francisco, CA 94111
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Drug Possession
Drug possession is the illegal possession of a controlled substance. Essentially, to be convicted of a drug possession charge, you knowingly must have a controlled substance in your possession or within your proximity, like storing it in your vehicle. Drug possession can also include having a device used for the consumption of a controlled substance. This is a criminal offense under both California state law as well as federal law.
Types of Drug Possession Charges
Sometimes drug possession is referred to as actual possession or “constructive” possession, meaning that an individual knowingly has access to and control of a controlled substance but it is not on the person. Some common ways for constructive possession occur is when a person knowingly stores an illegal controlled substance in their car or at their home. Possessing a smaller quantity of a controlled substance for personal use is commonly known as “simple possession.“
What Is A Controlled Substance?
Federal law as well as state law determines the severity of drug possession charges based on the type of drug and divides them into different “schedules.” Each schedule is based on the potential for dependency and abuse. This sliding scale of schedules starts with Schedule V drugs, having the lowest risk, and increases in severity up to Schedule I, posing the most severe risk.
- Schedule I: Heroin, ecstasy, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana, peyote
- Schedule II: Methamphetamine, cocaine, morphine, methadone, phencyclidine (PCP), fentanyl
- Schedule III: Anabolic steroids, ketamine, barbiturates, testosterone, Tylenol with codeine
- Schedule IV: Valium, Xanax, Tramadol
- Schedule V: Other unlawfully obtained prescription drugs and cough medicines like Robitussin with codeine