Quote from: greencrayon on March 16, 2012, 12:41 amQuote from: pine on March 01, 2012, 01:05 amIf you're shipping below the felony amount (usually ~ 20-30g depending on your state), then anybody who gets a controlled delivery can at most expect a misdemeanor charge which at the most will translate to a couple of days in lock-up or a fine. In the U.S.? I thought it was a felony on the federal level to possess a schedule 1 substance. It is a felony in the couple states I have looked at. I am having a difficult time finding the federal penalties, if there is any kind of outline. Will you usually be tried according to your state laws if you have something get intercepted? The actual interception would most likely occur out of state.I'm massively generalizing here, the law is extremely complicated in theory and even more so in practice. What the law says, and then what normally happens are usually two different things (unless you've no $$$ and you look/sound like the wrong kind of character e.g. looking like some black dude from MTV). What a misdemeanor and what a felony equate to is almost completely random from state to state, I shouldn't even have posted those 20g - 30g numbers, they are more misleading than helpful. So; please ignore that comment.At the end of the day, the only key thing that remains constant is STFU. If you try to help yourself by explaining things, you'll get raped. If you talk like a bird and you have no money for a good lawyer, then you are at the mercy of some pretty draconian laws that wouldn't have seemed out of place in the dark ages.Example: If you get caught with *any* amount of heroin, you had better hope that Federal law is being applied rather than state law, it's the difference between going inside for 1 year + $5000 fine vs up to 7 years and $50,000 fine. In some states, you have 'possession of drug paraphernalia' charges e.g. a bong, which can get you a fine of several thousand dollars. They merely need to suspect you intended to use it to smoke a scheduled substance. I kid you not.Then there are more liberal states like Massachusetts in which as long as you've < 1 ounce of marijuana you get a $100 fine at the most. Quite a spectrum there, ha ha!P.S. I am by no means a legal expert, you guys need to do your own research on the laws for your DOC and State, there are really too many variables to adequately generalize. Also, if you live nearby a day care center or a public school, you should never order to your address period. Otherwise you might get 'an upgrade'. Knowing characters like moonbear, he would be selling to his pals at school to earn street cred. What he doesn't realize is that he could get life imprisonment for that. I wouldn't even wish that even on moonbear!