Chapter 1 - Introduction
- A Historical Sketch of drug misuse
- Drug Control and Drug Classification
Chapter 2 - The importation and exportation of controlled drugs
- The importation and exportation of controlled drugs
- The statutory provisions
- Improper Importation Section 50 CEMA 1979
- Unlawful Exportation section 68
- Fraudulent Evasions: Section 170
Chapter 3 - Possession of Drugs
- Introduction
- Making Possession Unlawful
- Lawful Possession
- Unlawful Possession
- The General Principles of Possession
- Statutory Defences under Section 5(4)
Chapter 4 - Possession with intent to supply
- Section 5 (3)): Possession with the Intent to Supply
- Proving the Offence
Chapter 5 - Supplying controlled drugs
- The Statutory Provisions
- The Offences
- Regulating drugs that may lawfully be supplied
- Persons who may lawfully supply any controlled drug
- General Authority to supply schedule 2, 3, 4 & 5 Drugs
- Specific persons who may supply schedule 2 or 5 Drugs
- Persons who may supply schedule 3 Drugs
- Persons who may supply schedule 4 Drugs
- Persons who may supply schedule 5 Drugs
- Written authority to supply
- Issuing a prescription not a “supply”
- The unlawful supply of controlled drugs
- Making an offer to supply
- Being concerned in the supply of drugs
- Aggravated supply
- Intoxicating substances
Chapter 6 - The manufacture and production of controlled drugs
- Substances useful for manufacture of controlled drugs
- The production of controlled drugs
- The cultivation of Cannabis
- Magic Mushrooms
Chapter 7 - Drugs activities on premises
- Premises
- Who is responsible
- Persons in unlawful possession of premises
- Persons concerned in the management of premises
- Prohibiting opium smoking
- Drug kits and articles for use in drug misuse
Chapter 8 - Section 28 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
- Section 28
- Section 28(2)
- Does section 28(2) alter the definition of possession?
- What is to be proved by the accused?
- Section 28(3)(b)(ii)
Chapter 9 - Offences contrary to a corresponding law
- General Note
- What is capable of amounting to assistance
- Assisting in the United Kingdom
- Offence punishable under a corresponding law
- Importation performed by an innocent third party
- Mens Rea for an offence under section 20
Chapter 10 - Inchoate liability
- Introduction
- Proving the conspiracy
- Conspiracies formed abroad
- Conspiracy to do the physically impossible
- Attempting to commit a drug offence
- Indictment to commit a misuse of drugs act offence
Chapter 11 - Evidence
- Proof that the drug is controlled
- Letters documents and books
- Proving premises are used for supplying
- Expert evidence
- Interviews
- Telephone tapping
- View of the scene on the crime
Chapter 12 - Powers of police and customs officers
- Powers of the citizen
- Powers of the police
- Powers of the Customs and Excise
- Obstruction of officers
Chapter 13 – The making of confiscation orders
- The Making of Confiscation Orders
- Restraint Orders
- Criminal Memoirs
- Cash Forfeiture
- Money Laundering
Chapter 14 - Powers of Forfeiture
Chapter 15 - Sentencing
- Maximum sentences for offences under the MDA 1971
- Maximum sentences for offences under the CEMA 1979
- Sentencing guidelines
- General Principles of sentencing
- Factors that might affect the sentence
- Recent sentencing strategies
Chapter 16 - A general guide to drug misuse
- Types of drug
- The Consumption factors
- The tools of the trade and other hallmarks
- The statutory bodies
Chapter 17 – Legal highs and the Medicine Act 1968
- Appendices
Appendix A Schedule 2 to the Misuse of drugs Act 1971
Appendix B Sentencing Schedule
Appendix C Schedule 4 to the misuse of drugs act