Monthly Archives: August 2024
Directed Verdicts in Florida Drug Cases
In criminal cases, jurors must decide whether the defendant is innocent or guilty of the charges at hand, and the law includes several safeguards to prevent outside factors from influencing the jurors’ decisions. Jury selection is often a protracted process as prosecutors and defense lawyers examine potential jurors to determine whether they are capable… Read More »
Is Scopolamine Illegal?
The five drug schedules of the Controlled Substances Act only tell you how lawmakers think that the risks and benefits of a drug compare to each other; they are not based on a mathematical formula, such as Schedule I being reserved for drugs where a tiny dose can be lethal. For example, MDMA is… Read More »
The Fallibility of Memory Is Not the Only Problem With Eyewitness Testimony
These days, people seem aware that all humans have biases, although the circumstances surrounding when a person works this fact into conversation reveal a lot about that person’s own biases. On the one hand, the court system has safeguards in place to prevent the biases of the judge and jury from standing in the… Read More »
FDA Votes Against Approving MDMA
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must approve every ingredient before it can be used as an ingredient in a food or pharmaceutical drug. It is the regulatory body that decides, among other things, which food dyes are legally considered edible, thereby determining which radiant hues can be present in the candies in your… Read More »
MDMA Remains a Schedule I Controlled Substance for Now
In Florida, it is not hard to find people who hold unorthodox scientific views or who are generally skeptical of biomedical research. You probably know someone who thinks that common food ingredients are the source of all their physical and emotional discomfort or someone who believes that weed cures every disease that is worth… Read More »
