{"id":511,"date":"2012-07-27T01:27:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T01:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=511"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:58:09","slug":"lsd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=511","title":{"rendered":"LSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>CR40-211.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-211.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Possession of LSD<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4232(a)(1) (05\/05\/06)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-221.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-221.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Possession of LSD (100 mg or more)<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4232(a)(2) (05\/05\/06)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-231.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-231.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Possession of LSD (1 gram or more)<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4232(a)(3) (05\/05\/06)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-241.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-241.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Possession of LSD (10 grams or more)<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4232(a)(4) (05\/05\/06)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-251.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-251.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selling or dispensing LSD<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4232(b)(1) (04\/01\/25)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-261.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-261.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selling or dispensing LSD (100 mg or more)<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4232(b)(2) (04\/01\/25)<\/li>\n<li>CR40-271.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS40-271.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selling or dispensing LSD (1 gram or more)<\/a>, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4232(b)(3) (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>.\u00a0 As part of the mental element, the State must prove that the defendant knew that what he sold contained the specific regulated drug at the time he sold it. <em>See<\/em> <u>State v. Rillo<\/u>, 2020 VT 82, \u00b6 12, 213 Vt. 193 (\u201cThe \u2018knowing\u2019 element of the alleged crime required proof that defendant knew the drug contained fentanyl <u>at the time he committed the crime<\/u>.\u201d) (emphasis in original).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><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 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CR40-211.\u00a0 Possession of LSD, 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4232(a)(1) (05\/05\/06) CR40-221.\u00a0 Possession of LSD (100 mg or more), 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4232(a)(2) (05\/05\/06) CR40-231.\u00a0 Possession of LSD (1 gram or more), 18 V.S.A. \u00a7 4232(a)(3) (05\/05\/06) CR40-241.\u00a0 Possession of LSD (10 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=511\">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-511","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511\/revisions\/1795"}],"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=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}