{"id":507,"date":"2012-07-27T01:26:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T01:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=507"},"modified":"2017-01-08T20:05:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T20:05:58","slug":"marijuana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=507","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>WARNING: The marijuana instructions have not been updated since the legislature significantly amended those statutes in 2013. Courts and attorneys should exercise caution in using these instructions. <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CR40-011.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-011.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Possession of marijuana<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4230(a)(1)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-021.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-021.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Possession of marijuana (two ounces or more)<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4230(a)(2)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-026.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-026.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cultivating marijuana (more than three plants)<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4230(a)(2)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-031.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-031.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Possession of marijuana (one pound or more)<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4230(a)(3)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-036.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-036.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cultivating marijuana (more than ten plants)<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4230(a)(3)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-041.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-041.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Possession of marijuana (ten pounds or more)<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4230(a)(4)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-046.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-046.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cultivating marijuana (more than 25 plants)<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4230(a)(4)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-051.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-051.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Selling marijuana<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4230(b)(1)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-061.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-061.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Selling or dispensing marijuana (1\/2 ounce or more)<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4230(b)(1)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-071.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-071.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Selling or dispensing marijuana (1 pound or more)<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4230(b)(3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Reporter&#8217;s Notes<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Units of Measurement.<\/em><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The statutes within title 18, chapter 84, are inconsistent in that they do not all use the same system of measurement.\u00a0 For example, under 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4231(3) and (4), cocaine is measured in pounds and ounces, which are units of weight or force in the English system, whereas under 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4231(2), the cocaine is measured in grams, which is a unit of mass in the metric system.\u00a0 Sometimes it is necessary to ask the expert witnesses to convert their measurements into the appropriate units.\u00a0 The committee suggests that the drug statutes should be amended to provide for consistent use of the metric system, which is preferred for scientific measurement and calculations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<em>\u201cDispensing.\u201d\u00a0<\/em> The 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 cocaine so long as the dispossession does not involve selling or dispensing.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">State v. Harris<\/span>, 152 Vt. 507, 509 (1989).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARNING: The marijuana instructions have not been updated since the legislature significantly amended those statutes in 2013. Courts and attorneys should exercise caution in using these instructions. CR40-011.\u00a0 Possession of marijuana, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4230(a)(1) CR40-021.\u00a0 Possession of marijuana (two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=507\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":505,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-507","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/507","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/507\/revisions\/1302"}],"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=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}