Any sentence that might be looked on as an encouragement to very, very young defendants to deal in drugs or encourages older and unscrupulous dealers to make use of very young persons as a tool in their trade, would cause complete havoc.

You may be charged with possessing an illegal substance if you’re caught with drugs, whether they’re yours or not. His work fills in the dynamic content absent in the plausible structural analyses of the decline in homicide, gun use, and youth crime described by Blumstein and others.

She claimed that he asked her just to bring a bag which was there and, in a panic, she grabbed a bag and was driving to meet him.

Your relationship with the person will likely suffer, as addiction affects the brain in ways that lead to changes in behavior and personality. You may want to contact a professional therapist or interventionist who can help you determine what to say when dealing with an addicted person.Urban street gangs play a key – and rising - role in the distribution of class A drugs, particularly heroin and crack cocaine.

Action against drug trafficking therefore has a much wider disruptive impact on organised criminal activity.County Lines are not defined by the distance between the point of control and the point of distribution, but rather the mechanism by which that method of supply is supported; namely the use of a mobile telephone line and the use of vulnerable adults and children to facilitate the distribution. Social scientists, ethnographers and others who have studied the workings of the crack trade describe lives built around a kind of shimmering lure, built on myth and self-deception and on a reality that all too often ends in prison, violent injury or death.