2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 579 - Controlled Substance Offenses › Section 579.065 - Trafficking drugs, first degree — penalty.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 579
• Effective - 28 Aug 2020, 2 histories
579.065. Trafficking drugs, first degree — penalty. —
1. A person commits the offense of trafficking drugs in the first degree if, except as authorized by this chapter or chapter 195, such person knowingly distributes, delivers, manufactures, produces or attempts to distribute, deliver, manufacture or produce:
(1) More than thirty grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of heroin;
(2) More than one hundred fifty grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of coca leaves, except coca leaves and extracts of coca leaves from which cocaine, ecgonine, and derivatives of ecgonine or their salts have been removed; cocaine salts and their optical and geometric isomers, and salts of isomers; ecgonine, its derivatives, their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers; or any compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of any of the foregoing substances;
(3) More than eight grams of a mixture or substance described in subdivision (2) of this subsection which contains cocaine base;
(4) More than five hundred milligrams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD);
(5) More than thirty grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of phencyclidine (PCP);
(6) More than four grams of phencyclidine;
(7) More than thirty kilograms of a mixture or substance containing marijuana;
(8) More than thirty grams of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of the following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system: amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers and salts of its optical isomers; methamphetamine, its salts, optical isomers and salts of its optical isomers; phenmetrazine and its salts; or methylphenidate;
(9) More than thirty grams of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine;
(10) One gram or more of flunitrazepam for the first offense;
(11) Any amount of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid for the first offense; or
(12) More than ten milligrams of fentanyl or carfentanil, or any derivative thereof, or any combination thereof, or any compound, mixture, or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl or carfentanil, or their optical isomers or analogues.
2. The offense of trafficking drugs in the first degree is a class B felony.
3. The offense of trafficking drugs in the first degree is a class A felony if the quantity involved is:
(1) Ninety grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of heroin; or
(2) Four hundred fifty grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of coca leaves, except coca leaves and extracts of coca leaves from which cocaine, ecgonine, and derivatives of ecgonine or their salts have been removed; cocaine salts and their optical and geometric isomers, and salts of isomers; ecgonine, its derivatives, their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers; or any compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of any of the foregoing substances; or
(3) Twenty-four grams or more of a mixture or substance described in subdivision (2) of this subsection which contains cocaine base; or
(4) One gram or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD); or
(5) Ninety grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of phencyclidine (PCP); or
(6) Twelve grams or more of phencyclidine; or
(7) One hundred kilograms or more of a mixture or substance containing marijuana; or
(8) Ninety grams or more of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of the following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system: amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers and salts of its optical isomers; methamphetamine, its salts, optical isomers and salts of its optical isomers; phenmetrazine and its salts; or methylphenidate; or
(9) More than thirty grams of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of the following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system: amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of its optical isomers; methamphetamine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of its optical isomers; phenmetrazine and its salts; or methylphenidate, and the location of the offense was within two thousand feet of real property comprising a public or private elementary, vocational, or secondary school, college, community college, university, or any school bus, in or on the real property comprising public housing or any other governmental assisted housing, or within a motor vehicle, or in any structure or building which contains rooms furnished for the accommodation or lodging of guests, and kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public as a place where sleeping accommodations are sought for pay or compensation to transient guests or permanent guests; or
(10) Ninety grams or more of any material, compound, mixture or preparation which contains any quantity of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine; or
(11) More than thirty grams of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine and the location of the offense was within two thousand feet of real property comprising a public or private elementary, vocational, or secondary school, college, community college, university, or any school bus, in or on the real property comprising public housing or any other governmental assisted housing, within a motor vehicle, or in any structure or building which contains rooms furnished for the accommodation or lodging of guests, and kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public as a place where sleeping accommodations are sought for pay or compensation to transient guests or permanent guests; or
(12) One gram or more of flunitrazepam for a second or subsequent offense; or
(13) Any amount of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid for a second or subsequent offense; or
(14) Twenty milligrams or more of fentanyl or carfentanil, or any derivative thereof, or any combination thereof, or any compound, mixture, or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl or carfentanil, or their optical isomers or analogues.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 215 & 58, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1147, et al., A.L. 2001 H.B. 471, A.L. 2012 S.B. 628, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491, A.L. 2020 H.B. 1896)
Transferred 2014; formerly 195.222
CROSS REFERENCE:
No bail, certain defendants, certain offenses, 544.671