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I cannot understand how people get arrested for simply possessing control substances. My understanding of the ultimate user law is this. The law allows someone to get high, their family to get high, or their animals to get high. As long as they don't sell it, administer to someone outside my family, or distribute it, they are within the law. Ultimate user laws are found in many state statutes and there is a federal ultimate user law. How does the arrest and prosecution work for people simply possessing control substance? What happen?
Wisconsin Ultimate User Law
“Definitions. As used in this chapter:
"Ultimate user" means an individual who lawfully possesses a controlled substance for that individual's own use or for the use of a member of that individual's household or for administering to an animal owned by that individual or by a member of that individual's household. “ –Wisconsin Statutes 961.01
IC 35-48-1-27"Ultimate user"
Sec. 27. "Ultimate user" means a person who lawfully possesses a controlled substance for the person's own use, for the use of a member of the person's household, or for administering to an animal owned by the person or by a member of the person's household.
As added by P.L.5-1988, SEC.207.
IC 35-48-3-3 Registration requirements
(e) The following persons need not register and may lawfully possess controlled substances under this article:
(1) An agent or employee of any registered manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser of any controlled substance if the agent or employee is acting in the usual course of the agent's or employee's business or employment.
(2) A common or contract carrier or warehouseman, or an employee thereof, whose possession of any controlled substance is in the usual course of business or employment.
(3) An ultimate user or a person in possession of any controlled substance under a lawful order of a practitioner or in lawful possession of a schedule V substance.