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> and most of those convictions were plea-bargained down from trafficking charges.

What counts as trafficking in the US? In England merely handing your friend a joint can be seen as dealing.



Trafficking can be a small amount of pot and a box of ziplock bags, but you're generally talking about 28-40g before you'll get charged (and usually more like 100g+), and the fed sentencing guidelines all involve the prefix "kilo" on the weights, so that tends to be the scale they're concerned with.




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