Macau’s top court treats shared-cost cannabis supply as trafficking
Macau’s top court upheld a cannabis trafficking conviction, ruling that providing cannabis to other people counted as supply even when they shared the purchase cost.[@1] The old law’s lesser-quantity tier used a three-day personal-use reference, which the court placed at six to eight grams for cannabis; the quantity supplied exceeded it.[@1] Macau’s 2009 replacement later introduced a…
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Macau’s top court upheld a cannabis trafficking conviction, ruling that providing cannabis to other people counted as supply even when they shared the purchase cost.[1] The old law’s lesser-quantity tier used a three-day personal-use reference, which the court placed at six to eight grams for cannabis; the quantity supplied exceeded it.[1] Macau’s 2009 replacement later introduced a daily-reference table for assessing lesser production and trafficking.[2][1][2]
Sources
- cannabis supplied to others and shared costs. Court of Final Appeal, 2004. Case 35/2004, 13 October 2004; summary and pp. 16–20.
- original drug offences and penalties. In Boletim Oficial, I Series, No. 32, 10 August 2009. Law 17/2009, 2009. Original Articles 7–8, 11, 14 and 42; Table I-C and daily-reference annex.