Functionally, some % of those "trafficking" or "sales" charges are actually "possession" charges. https://www.justcriminallaw.com/drug-charges/2023/04/24/drug-

Functionally, some % of those "trafficking" or "sales" charges are actually "possession" charges. https://www.justcriminallaw.com/drug-charges/2023/04/24/drug-possession-vs-possession-with-intent-to-distribute-whats-the-difference/ https://www.justcriminallaw.com/drug-charges/2023/04/24/drug... > You can be charged with drug trafficking even if you have not actually sold any drugs. Prosecutors will try to show that you were in possession of a controlled substance and planned to sell or distribute it, even if you were going to distribute it for free or use it with friends. Texas is finally calming down on weed but back when I was in college I knew plenty of friends that were slapped with "trafficking" because they had some normal amount of grams on them and the cops just went for it. That lets prosecutors scare them into shitty deals because with trafficking you're looking at years of prison. Considering the scale of the American prison industrial complex, I'm sure plenty of people didn't have good enough lawyers to get the bogus trafficking charges thrown out.