Absent a massive influx of resources, the DEA, prosecutors and federal courts don't have the capacity to handle small-time possession cases.
In 2010, Cameron Douglas was sentenced to five years in prison for small time drug dealing and possession for personal use.
-Here be more video of the New York Police Department NYPDD) being rough in their arrests, and more evidence that Mayor Bill de Blasio's directive to be cool on small-time marijuana possession isn't magically going to happen.
Most of the time possession occurs because the jinn is simply malicious and wicked.
A3 Mexico to Ease Drug Laws Mexican lawmakers passed a sweeping drug law that would crack down on small-time dealers, legalize possession of small quantities of drugs, including heroin and cocaine, and mandate treatment for addicts.
Arizona appears to be the only state in which a person can be convicted of a felony offense for first-time possession of even a very small amount of marijuana, said Jolene Forman, a staff lawyer at the Drug Policy Alliance.
MEXICO CITY, April 28 — Mexican lawmakers passed a sweeping new drug law early Friday that would crack down on small-time dealers, legalize the possession of small quantities of drugs and mandate treatment for addicts.
As weeks stretched to months, those leads grew colder and the investigation became a slow slog of interviews with friends and associates of Mr. Woodard, 31, a Los Angeles club promoter from a well-off family who had a history of small-time arrests, including for drug possession.
He even agreed that marijuana possession was a small-time charge.
By the time he was arrested in August for a small-time sale (a charge that was later knocked down to possession), his family had cut him off financially.
