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| | | An Act To Increase Penalties for Furnishing or Trafficking |
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| | | Scheduled Drugs That Cause Death or Serious Bodily Injury |
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| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §1105-A, sub-§1, ¶¶I and J, as enacted by PL 2001, c. | | 667, Pt. D, §25 and affected by §36, are amended to read: |
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| | | I. At the time of the offense, the person trafficks in 300 | | or more pills, capsules, tablets, vials, ampules, syringes | | or units containing any narcotic drug other than heroin, or | | any quantity of pills, capsules, tablets, units, compounds, | mixtures or substances that, in the aggregate, contains | | contain 8,000 milligrams or more of oxycodone or 1,000 | milligrams or more of hydromorphone; or |
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| | | J. At the time of the offense, the person trafficks in a | | quantity of 300 or more pills, capsules, tablets or units | | containing 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA, or any | | other drug listed in section 1102, subsection 1, paragraph | O. |
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| | | Sec. 2. 17-A MRSA §1105-A, sub-§1, ¶¶K and L are enacted to read: |
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| | | K.__Death is in fact caused by the use of that scheduled | | drug and the drug is a schedule W drug.__A violation of this | | paragraph is a Class A crime; or |
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