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Legal Question About Drugs
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Say one of my roommates in my apartment is into hard drugs and he's slanging every once in a while. If I don't do them and I'm not involved with any selling he's doing, what (if anything) am I liable for if the 5-0 come knocking on our door some night?
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I know if you live in on campus housing you would be liable if you had an RA come. If you're leasing a place you might wanna look in your lease i think some of those things are outlined in there. I'm not sure however if The 5-0 could do anything or not though.
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Its an off-campus apartment and there wasn't anything about it in the lease. I'm just wondering if I can be held responsible for his shit simply because I co-rent the apartment with him, or because I might be present if by chance the cops do show up. I read somewhere that people who know about drugs can be charged with something like "conspiracy to traffic drugs" but I dunno if that's true or not
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possession if you're in a dorm, at least by the school. i dunno about police-wise since intent has a lot to do with what makes things legal/illegal.
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Make sure the drugs are hidden. This will let your excuse of "I had no idea he kept them here" fly. Also tell your roomie/flatmate that if the 5-0 come he never told you they were there. The less you know about them the better. They cant charge you if you had "no clue" about them.
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word. Thats exactly the plan that I had in mind. I think as long as they're out of sight and my roommate backs my story about not knowing they were there I should be golden. I'm just stressing tho because I recently had another friend who was busted with fairly small quantities of x and shrooms and it turned out to be like $20,000 in fines. Fucking ridiculous.
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20 fucking grand??
i don't know whether to laugh or cry at this pathetic excuse for a "war on drugs"
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No shit. Luckily he caught a break and had some of the fines lowered when he went to court but it was still thousands and thousands of dollars. It really is pathetic
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