Drug Trafficking Criminal Charges

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In Missouri, a person commits the offense of trafficking drugs in the first degree if, except as authorized by law, such person knowingly distributes, delivers, manufactures, produces, or attempts to distribute, deliver, manufacture, or produce:

• More than thirty grams but less than ninety grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of heroin;

• More than one hundred fifty grams but less than four hundred fifty grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of coca leaves, except coca leaves and extracts of coca leaves from which cocaine, ecgonine, and derivatives of ecgonine or their salts have been removed; cocaine salts and their optical and geometric isomers, and salts of isomers; ecgonine, its derivatives, their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers; or any compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of any of the foregoing substances;

• More than eight grams but less than twenty-four grams of a mixture or substance which contains cocaine base;

• More than five hundred milligrams but less than one gram of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD);

• More than thirty grams but less than ninety grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of phencyclidine (PCP);

• More than four grams but less than twelve grams of phencyclidine;

• More than thirty kilograms but less than one hundred kilograms of a mixture or substance containing marijuana;

• More than thirty grams but less than ninety grams of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of the following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system: amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of its optical isomers; methamphetamine, its salts, optical isomers and salts of its optical isomers; phenmetrazine and its salts; or methylphenidate; or

• More than thirty grams but less than ninety grams of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any quantity of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine.

A person commits the offense of trafficking drugs in the second degree if, except as authorized by law, such person knowingly possesses or has under his or her control, purchases or attempts to purchase, or brings into this state:

• More than thirty grams but less than ninety grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of heroin;

• More than one hundred fifty grams but less than four hundred fifty grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of coca leaves, except coca leaves and extracts of coca leaves from which cocaine, ecgonine, and derivatives of ecgonine or their salts have been removed; cocaine salts and their optical and geometric isomers, and salts of isomers; ecgonine, its derivatives, their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers; or any compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of any of the foregoing substances;

• More than eight grams but less than twenty-four grams of a mixture or substance which contains cocaine base;

• More than five hundred milligrams but less than one gram of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD);

• More than thirty grams but less than ninety grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of phencyclidine (PCP);

• More than four grams but less than twelve grams of phencyclidine;

• More than thirty kilograms but less than one hundred kilograms of a mixture or substance containing marijuana;

• More than thirty grams but less than ninety grams of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of the following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system: amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of its optical isomers; methamphetamine, its salts, optical isomers and salts of its optical isomers; phenmetrazine and its salts; or methylphenidate; or

• More than thirty grams but less than ninety grams of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine.

The offense of trafficking drugs in the second degree is a class C felony.