Top Menlo Park, CA Drug Possession Lawyers Near You
255 Shoreline Drive, Suite 520, Redwood City, CA 94065
3650 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 225, Lafayette, CA 94549
44 Montgomery St, 38th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104
620 Jefferson Ave., Redwood City, CA 94063
1875 S Grant St, Suite 925, San Mateo, CA 94402
555 California Street, Suite 2000, San Francisco, CA 94104
1388 Sutter St, Suite 805, San Francisco, CA 94109
1990 N California Blvd, 8th Floor, Walnut Creek, CA 94596
1934 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
605 Middlefield Rd, Redwood City, CA 94063
1164 Solano Avenue, Albany, CA 94706
1211 Embarcadero,, Suite 210, Oakland, CA 94606
4 Embarcadero, Suite 1400, San Francisco, CA 94111
2006 Kala Bagai Wy, Suite 16, Berkeley, CA 94704
100 Pine St, Suite 1250, San Francisco, CA 94111
809 Montgomery Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94133
600 Allerton St, Ste 202G, Redwood City, CA 94063
3311 Mission St, Suite 187, San Francisco, CA 94110
333 Bradford St, Suite 170, Redwood City, CA 94063
1 Embarcadero Center, Suite 2100, San Francisco, CA 94111
1211 Embarcadero, Suite 200, Oakland, CA 94606
1766 18th Street Suite A, San Francisco, CA 94107
1 Kaiser Plz, Ordway Building 1, Suite 2300, Oakland, CA 94612
433 Town Center, Suite 715, Corte Madera, CA 94925
1100 Sansome Street, San Francisco, CA 94111
Menlo Park Drug Possession Information
Lead Counsel Verified Attorneys in Menlo Park
Lead Counsel independently verifies Drug Possession attorneys in Menlo Park and checks their standing with California bar associations.
Our Verification Process and Criteria
Ample Experience
Attorneys must meet stringent qualifications and prove they practice in the area of law they’re verified in.
Good Standing
Be in good standing with their bar associations and maintain a clean disciplinary record.
Annual Review
Submit to an annual review to retain their Lead Counsel Verified status.
Client Commitment
Pledge to follow the highest quality client service and ethical standards.
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