An Act to Include Possession of Compounds, Mixtures or Substances Containing a Detectable Amount of Certain Scheduled Drugs to Prove the Offense of Unlawful Trafficking of Scheduled Drugs
Maine Legislature, Session 131, LD 0994
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Sponsors: QUINT, KEIM, ARDELL, COLLINGS, GREENWOOD, PERKINS, PERRY, BALDACCI, FARRIN, HARRINGTON
Amends: 17-A MRSA §1103

Legislative Document
No. 994
H.P. 629
House of Representatives, March 7, 2023
An Act to Include Possession of Compounds, Mixtures or 
Substances Containing a Detectable Amount of Certain Scheduled 
Drugs to Prove the Offense of Unlawful Trafficking of Scheduled 
Drugs
Reference to the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety suggested and ordered 
printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative QUINT of Hodgdon.
Cosponsored by Senator KEIM of Oxford and
Representatives: ARDELL of Monticello, COLLINGS of Portland, GREENWOOD of Wales, 
PERKINS of Dover-Foxcroft, PERRY of Bangor, Senators: BALDACCI of Penobscot, 
FARRIN of Somerset, HARRINGTON of York.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  17-A MRSA §1103, sub-§3, as amended by PL 2021, c. 396, §3, is further 
amended to read:
3.   Proof that the person intentionally or knowingly possesses any scheduled drug that 
is in fact of a quantity, state or concentration as provided in this subsection, gives rise to a 
permissible inference under the Maine Rules of Evidence, Rule 303 that the person is 
unlawfully trafficking in scheduled drugs:
A.  More than one pound of marijuana;
B.  Fourteen grams or more of any compound, mixture or substance containing a 
detectable quantity of cocaine or cocaine base;
C-1.  Four grams or more of any compound, mixture or substance containing a 
detectable quantity of heroin;
C-2.  Four grams or more of any compound, mixture or substance containing a 
detectable quantity of fentanyl powder;
D.  Lysergic acid diethylamide in any of the following quantities, states or 
concentrations:
(1)  Any compound, mixture, substance or solution in a liquid state that contains a 
detectable quantity of lysergic acid diethylamide;
(2)  Fifty or more squares, stamps, tablets or units of any compound, mixture or 
substance containing a detectable quantity of lysergic acid diethylamide; or
(3)  Any quantity of any compound, mixture or substance that, in the aggregate, 
contains 2,500 micrograms or more of lysergic acid diethylamide;
E.  Fourteen grams or more of any compound, mixture or substance containing a 
detectable quantity of methamphetamine;
F.  Ninety or more pills, capsules, tablets, vials, ampules, syringes or units containing 
any narcotic drug other than heroin;
G.  Any quantity of pills, capsules, tablets, units, compounds, mixtures or substances 
that, in the aggregate, contains 800 milligrams or more of oxycodone or 100 milligrams 
or more of hydromorphone; or
H.  Fourteen grams or more of or 30 or more pills, capsules, tablets or units containing 
any compound, mixture or substance containing a detectable quantity of 3, 4 - 
methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA, or any other drug listed in section 1102, 
subsection 1, paragraph O or P.
SUMMARY
This bill adds possession of compounds, mixtures or substances containing a detectable 
amount of certain scheduled drugs as proof that a person is unlawfully trafficking in 
scheduled drugs.