Drugs Flashcards
What are the elements of Producing / Manufacturing any controlled drug?
-Produce
or
- Manufacture
- Any controlled drug
What section / act is:
importing / exporting any controlled drug?
Elements?
Section 6(1)(a) Misuse of Drug Act 1975
Elements:
-Import into
or
- Export from NZ
- Any controlled drug
What is the act and section for:
Producing / Manufacturing any controlled drug?
Section 6(1)(b) Misuse of Drugs Act 1975
What is stated in:
R V RUA
regarding the manufacture of controlled drugs.
The words “produce” or “manufacture” in Section 6(1)(b) broadly cover the creation of controlled drugs by some form of process which changes the orginal substances into a particular controlled drug.
The offence is complete once the prohibited drug substance is created, whether or not it is in useable form.
What is meant by ‘producing’ in regards to producing controlled drugs?
To ‘produce’ means to bring something into being, or to bring something into existence from its raw materials or elements.
What is considered ‘manufacturing’?
The process of synthesis; combining components or processing raw materials to create a new substance.
CASE LAW:
R V STRAWBRIDGE
it is not necessary for the Crown to establish knowledge on the part of the accused. In the absence of evidence to the contrary knowledge on her part will be presumed, but if there is some evidence that the acussed honestly believed on reasonable grounds that her act was innocent, then she is entitled to be aquitted unless the jury is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that this was not so.
CASE LAW (regarding usable quantity):
POLICE V EMERALI
“the serious offence of…possessing a narcotic does not extend to some minute and unless residue of the substance.”
What is the section for Drug Dealing - Suppling andy class A or B controlled drugs?
Section 6(1)(c) Misuse of Drugs Act 1975
What are the elements of:
Supplying any class a or b class controlled drug?
- Supply
- or*
- administer
- or*
- offer to supply or administer
- otherwise deal in
- any class a controlled drug or any class b controlled drug
- to any person
What is listed under ‘supply’ in section 2 of the misuse of drugs act 1975?
Supply includes distrubite, give and sell.
What is discussed in R V DONALD in regards to supply?
Supply includes the distribution of jointly owned property between its co-owners.
What is discussed in R V KNOX?
“a person who is in unlawful possession of a controlled drug, which has been deposited for safekeeping, has the intent to supply that drug to another if his intention is to return the drug to the person who desposited it with him.”
What is meant by administer?
“to direct and cause a…drug to be taken into the system” of another person.
Offer:
R V DURING
“an offer is an intimation by the person charged to another that he is ready to request to supply to that other, drugs of a kind prohibited by the statue.”