Supply covers far more than selling, and sharing with a friend or offering can be enough. It is more serious than possession, and diversion does not apply. Talk to Joseph Rahim about your charge.
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Unlawfully supplying a dangerous drug to another person is an offence under the Drugs Misuse Act 1986 (Qld). “Supply” includes giving, distributing, selling, administering or transporting, and offering to do any of these, or doing something in preparation. Queensland lists dangerous drugs in two schedules. Schedule 1 includes heroin, cocaine, methylamphetamine and MDMA. Schedule 2 includes cannabis. A schedule 1 drug is treated more seriously than a schedule 2 drug, and larger quantities are treated more seriously again.
Supply by an adult is aggravated where it is to:
Supplying a schedule 2 drug without aggravating circumstances can be dealt with in the Magistrates Court. Schedule 1 and aggravated supply are more serious.
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Giving a friend a single pill can be charged as supply. Whether money changed hands does not decide it.
Offering to supply can be an offence, even if the substance turns out not to be a drug, as long as you believed it was.
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It can be. Giving is part of the definition of supply.
No. Police drug diversion covers possession only.
Trafficking is carrying on a business of supplying drugs, and it is more serious.
Messages are commonly relied on in supply cases. Get advice before answering questions about them.
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