DMTA Flashcards
Where can you find list of prohibited drugs?
Schedule 1 DMTA.
Is it a prohibited drug or plant if it’s not on schedule 1?
No
Where are weights listed?
Schedule 1
What are the jurasdictions?
Summary
Table 1
Table 2
Strictly Indictable
Definition of Cannabis leaf?
Any plant or part of a plant of the genus Cannabis by whatever name that plant or part may be called and includes the seed of any such plant. Does not include, Oil Fibre or resin Cannabis Plant
What does Cannabis leaf not include?
- Canabis Oil
- Fibre of any such plant or part from which resin extracted
- cannabis plant
What is a prohibited drug?
Anything not a plant, listed in Sch 1.
What if charge with possess drug under Division 1, part 2 and weight is commercial quantity?
Still summary offence. All offences under Div 1 dealt with Summarily regardless of weight/quantity.
He kaw Teh v The Queen?
Possession must include knowledge.
Pereira v Public Prosecutions
Knowledge must be the only rational inference available - circumstantial cases.
R v Cotterill
He knew he had the substance and that he knew it was a prohibited drug.
R v Dunn
Admissions to wrong drug - need only prove it is a prohibited drug.
Minute Quantities case law?
Williams v The Queen 1978 - Residue etc not an offence.
Forgotten possession case law?
R v Martindale - posession does not depend on the alleged possessor’s powers of memory, nor does possession come and go as memory revives or fails.
Division 2 of Part 2?
Indictable Offences
Carey NSWCCA?
Return of drugs to original owner does not amount to possession for supply. Still liable for possess charge.