 Hi, I'm David Cantor with the Law Offices of David Michael Cantor today I'm going to talk about possession of marijuana now in Arizona Possession marijuana under Arizona revised statute 13-3405 States that you have to knowingly possess or use without a proper medical marijuana script or card Marijuana and there's also certain weights. You can't just have a medical marijuana card and run around with 10 pounds of marijuana There's certain rules now if you have more than two pounds of marijuana They can charge you with Possession for sale now that can happen if it's broken up into certain sizes or their scales And if that occurs you need to go to our website dmcantor.com and look up possession for sale Which is a much more serious charge now if you are charged with possession of marijuana and you have no prior felony convictions You can be placed on probation up to two years in prison Now it becomes a class 5 felony if you have two to four pounds of marijuana for personal use That is not for sale and that can be probation up to two and a half years in prison now If you have four pounds plus not for sale They're almost always going to charge you with possession for sale But occasionally they won't and in that case you can get probation up to three point seven five years in prison now Probation means the judge can say hey, I'm going to give you a break I'm going to give you probation with certain terms be law abiding. Don't drink alcohol Follow all the rules, but I'm also going to impose jail as a term of probation Anywhere from zero days in jail up to one year in jail. So it's important You have a lawyer who knows what he's doing so you can hopefully get zero days in jail now the medical marijuana card defense That is a whole another topic and go to our website dmcantor.com and you can read about what that entails But it's very specific with medical marijuana cards other defenses include lack of knowledge That means you didn't know that the marijuana was in your car a house a backpack other one is lack of use That means secondhand smoke you were totally unaware of it and the smoke attaches to your body Yet the officer comes into a dorm room sees a pipe on the table and there's three roommates and he charges everyone with Use of marijuana you can fight that charge Illegal search lack of consent to the search coerce consent to the search bad search one all great defenses And we can talk to you about that common defenses No Miranda rights Coerced statements you ask for your lawyer and they denied you your right to counsel Fingerprints we'll look to see whether there's prints on the items that were found in the house or just plain sloppy Police reporting now you're gonna hear about things called prop 200 and task task means in certain cases you can do a diversion dismissal by Doing ua's parent paying a certain amount of money and being placed on probation Prop 200 what does that mean? Well if it's truly a first offense, and it's not for sale Then they have to give you probation But if you violate probation lo and behold they can throw you in jail Over and over again each time you violate holding you for four to six weeks until you resolve it We can talk to you about that so if you or loved one have been charged with possession of marijuana You're gonna need somebody knows what they're doing our office has many certified criminal law specialists We love to meet with you it doesn't cost anything to meet with you and sit down with you So give us a call or go to our website and fill out a contact form take care