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Federal Law and Penalties

Schedule Drugs
  1. Heroin, mescaline and peyote; marijuana, mushrooms, LSD, GHB, other hallucinogens, MDMA (ecstasy).
  2. Opium, morphine, and codeine; methadone, cocaine, amphetamine, methamphetamine, PCP.
  3. Opium, morphine, and codeine; barbiturates; other narcotics, stimulants and depressants.
  4. Benzodiazepines; chloral hydrate; anabolic steroids; other narcotics, stimulants and depressants.
  5. Codeine (ie. Robitussin); other narcotics and depressants.
Possession of Schedule Drugs

Schedule I / Schedule II

  • 1st offense: Not more than 20 years, 10 years minimum; if death or serious injury, 20 years minimum-life; up to $1 million fine individual, $5 million other than individual.
  • 2nd offense: Not more than 30 years; if death or serious injury, not more than 15 years; up to $2 million fine - individual, $10 million other than individual.

Schedule III

  • 1st offense: Not more than 10 years; if death or serious injury, not more than 15 years; up to $500,000 fine - individual, $12.5 million other than individual.
  • 2nd offense: Not more than 20 years; if death or serious injury, not more than 30 years; up to $1.5 million fine - individual, $5 million other than individual.

Schedule IV

  • 1st offense: 5 years; up to $250,000 fine individual, $1 million other than individual.
  • 2nd offense: 10 years; up to $500,000 fine individual, $2 million other than individual.

Schedule V

  • 1st offense: 0 - 1 year; up to $100,000 fine individual, $250,000 fine other than individual.
  • 2nd offense: 0 - 4 years; up to $200,000 fine individual, $500,000 other than individual.