Drug Offenses

Prescription medications are only available with a doctor's recommendation. After a physician determines that someone would benefit from a specific treatment, they send a prescription to a pharmacist. The patient can obtain medication from a licensed pharmacy to use...

Texas still regards marijuana as an illegal controlled substance that can never be used recreationally. This has been the law for decades and it used to be the law that was used across most of the United States. However, many states have been legalizing recreational...

Texas isn’t giving up on the war on drugs in any fashion, and the penalties for any kind of drug-related offense are pretty severe. While drug paraphernalia charges are often tacked onto other charges, they can exist solely on their own – and the penalties can be...

If the police arrest you after you try to sell drugs to an undercover police officer, it is important to find out more about how it came to pass that you were faced with the undercover officer. The police are allowed to try and catch people out, but only in certain...

You are probably aware that Texas courts can impose harsh penalties on anyone convicted of possessing, producing, distributing, selling or using illegal drugs. However, you might not realize that you can also face criminal charges based on drug-related equipment....

If you are a medically qualified professional, handling prescription drugs may be part of your everyday job. For instance, as a doctor, you may prescribe them; as a nurse, you may administer them; or as a pharmacist, you may hand them out. It might therefore come as a...

You could generally classify drugs into three primary categories. There are prohibited drugs that the government has made fully illegal to possess or use. There are also controlled substances that people can use while under the supervision of a medical professional....

Plea deals, or plea bargains as they are sometimes known, play a massive role in the modern criminal justice system. One study found that less than 10% of convictions are obtained by means other than a plea deal. So while you always have the right to a jury trial, be...

Although you technically own your prescription medication after you pick it up from the pharmacy, you do not have the right to do whatever you want with it. The law limits your rights to essentially following the exact instructions provided by your physician. Many...