Opinion ID: 1154942
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 11

Heading: calculation of the offender score

Text: [9] Last, Valdobinos argues the trial court erroneously calculated his offender score. He maintains cocaine is not a narcotic drug, and it therefore cannot form the basis of a violation of RCW 69.50.401(a)(1)(i), which requires the substance to be both a scheduled drug and a narcotic. That argument plainly fails an examination of the pertinent statute. Contrary to Valdobinos's assertion, cocaine is a narcotic drug under the statute, because it is a derivative of coca leaves. RCW 69.50.101(q) defines narcotic drugs as follows: Narcotic drug means any of the following, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis: .... (4) Coca leaves and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of coca leaves, and any salt, compound, isomer, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of these substances, but not including decocainized coca leaves or extractions of coca leaves which do not contain cocaine or ecgonine. (Italics ours.)