{"id":1805,"date":"2025-04-02T22:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=1805"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:03:38","slug":"xylazine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=1805","title":{"rendered":"Xylazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>CR40-391.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-391.htm\">Selling or Dispensing Xylazine<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4233b (04\/01\/25)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reporter&#8217;s Note<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Mental Element<\/em>. Note that, in 2024, the legislature created a new definition of \u201cknowingly\u201d that applies exclusively to 18 V.S.A. \u00a7\u00a7\u00a04233a (selling or dispensing fentanyl), 4233b (selling or dispensing xylazine), and 4234(b) (selling or dispensing depressant, stimulant, or narcotic drugs other than fentanyl, heroin, or cocaine). <em>See<\/em> 2024, No. 125 (S.58). This definition does not apply to other sections of Title 18.\u00a0The xylazine model instruction incorporates this definition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cDispensing.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0The word \u201cdispense\u201d is defined under 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4201(7) to include \u201cdistribute, leave with, give away, dispose of, or deliver.\u201d\u00a0 It is the committee\u2019s understanding that \u201cdispensing\u201d a regulated drug necessarily involves a transfer to another individual.\u00a0 One who disposes of regulated drugs by flushing them down the toilet is not thereby guilty of dispensing.\u00a0 While it may be a crime to possess the drug, it is not a crime to dispossess oneself of the drug so long as the dispossession does not involve selling or dispensing.\u00a0\u00a0<u>State v. Harris<\/u>, 152 Vt. 507, 509 (1989).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Note that 18 V.S.A. \u00a7\u00a04233b(b) outlines certain \u201cpermitted activities related to xylazine.\u201d Courts may need to instruct on these exceptions in an appropriate case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CR40-391.\u00a0\u00a0Selling or Dispensing Xylazine, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4233b (04\/01\/25) Reporter&#8217;s Note Mental Element. Note that, in 2024, the legislature created a new definition of \u201cknowingly\u201d that applies exclusively to 18 V.S.A. \u00a7\u00a7\u00a04233a (selling or dispensing fentanyl), 4233b (selling or dispensing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=1805\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":505,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1805","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1805\/revisions\/1806"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}