What Are Drug Schedules in Illinois? Facing criminal drug charges in the state of Illinois? Attorneys Joshua Boardman and Andrew Russek from Combs Waterkotte discuss everything you need to know about Illinois drug schedules.
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Interview Transcript
Scott Michael Dunn: What are drug schedules? What does that mean in Illinois?
Joshua Boardman: Different classifications of, or different levels of seriousness that go into the types of charges that can be brought. Schedules, one being without substances, without any sort of maybe clinical usage or medicinal usage or anything like that. And then, as you move into schedule two or schedule three, are there any justified purposes or usages or medical usages for those substances? It creates an algorithm of how the state’s attorney will charge that if those are located on your person or in your vehicle or what have you.
Dunn: Can I get in trouble for having prescription drugs on my person?
Andrew Russek: You could certainly potentially be arrested. Even if they’re prescribed drugs to you, I’ve seen cases before where I have three Xanax in my pocket, I’m prescribed it, but I don’t have the proof on me. For whatever reason, the cop doesn’t believe me, and I suddenly have a charge and that’s for the attorney to go to the prosecutor with the prescription somehow explain that. Or sometimes you’ll see I’ll accidentally leave my prescription bottle in the car and it’s mine, but Josh is accused of it. And those are fights that have to be had. So, we do run into those a lot with prescription drugs being prosecuted.
