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VERMONT

Possession:

< 2 oz.: 0 - 6 months; $500
>/= 2 oz.: 0 - 3 months; $10,000
>/= 1 lb.: 0 - 5 years; $100,000
>/= 10 lbs.: 0 - 15 years; $500,000

Cultivation:

> 3 plants: 0 - 3 years; $10,000
> 10 plants: 0 - 5 years; $100,000
> 25 plants: 0 - 15 years; $500,000

Delivery or sale:

>/= 0.5 oz.: 0 - 5 years; $100,000
>/= 1 lb.: 0 - 15 years; $500,000
Delivery or sale to minors: Anyone over 18 who sells to a minor who is at least three years younger: 0 - 5 years; $25,000
Potential additional penalty of up to 10 years for anyone (regardless of age) selling to a minor. Sale on a school bus also holds an additional penalty of 0-10 years.

Second conviction: doubled penalties are possible.

VIRGINIA
Possession:

</= 5 lb.: 0 - 30 days; $500. 2nd offense: 0 - 1 year; $2,500
>/= 5 lbs.: 1 - 10 years; $1,000

Cultivation of any amount: 5 - 30 years; $10,000

Delivery or sale:

</= 0.5 oz.: 0 - 1 year; $2,500
> 0.5 oz.: 1 - 10 years; $2,500
>/= 5 lbs.: 5 - 40 years; $500,000
Sale to minor: 10 - 50 years (1 year MMS); $100,000
Sale within 1,000 feet of school: 1 - 5 years MMS; $2,500 - $100,000

Paraphernalia:

Sale: 1 year; $2,500
Sale to minor: 1 - 5 years; $2,500

Driver's license suspended 6 months.

WASHINGTON
Possession:

< 40 grams: 1 - 90 days; $1,000
>/= 40 grams: 0 - 5 years; $10,000

Cultivation or delivery or sale:

Any amount: 0 - 5 years; $10,000
Sale to minor: penalty doubles
Within 1,000 feet of a school adds 0 - 2 years
If armed with a deadly weapon: additional 0 - 2 years

Conspiracy to cultivate, deliver, or sell: 0 - 12 months

Paraphernalia possession: 0 - 90 days; $1,000

Driver's license suspended 90 days for people under 21 years old.

WEST VIRGINIA
Possession:

< 15 grams: automatic conditional discharge; $1,000
> 15 grams: 1 - 5 years; $15,000
First-time possession offenders may receive probation without further penalties.

Cultivation or delivery or sale of any amount:

1 - 15 years; $25,000
Sale to minor: 2 years MMS
Sale within 1,000 feet of school: 2 years MMS

WISCONSIN
Possession:

Any amount: 0 - 6 months; $1,000. 2nd offense doubles penalty.
Possession near a school, public park, public pool, youth center, community center, or school bus: >/= 100 hours of community service is mandatory.

Cultivation:

</= 10 plants: 0 - 3 years; $500 - $25,000
>/= 11 plants: 3 months - 5 years; $1,000 - $5000
> 50 plants: 1 - 10 years; $1,000 - $100,000

Delivery or sale:

</= 500 grams: 0 - 3 years; $500 - $25,000
> 500 grams: 3 months - 5 years; $1000 - $50,000
>/= 2,500 grams: 1 - 10 years; $1000 - $100,000
Delivery to prisoner: penalty doubles
Sale to minor if seller is >/= 3 years older: penalty doubles
Sale within 1,000 feet of school, public park, public pool, youth center, community center, school bus: 1 year MMS

Paraphernalia:

Possession: 0 - 30 days; $500
Delivery or possession with intent to distribute: 0 - 9 months; $10,000
Sale to minor if seller is >/= 3 years older: 0 - 90 days; $1,000

Courts have discretion to reduce a sentence if reduction is in the community's best interest and the public won't be harmed.

Mandatory doubling of sentences for 2nd and subsequent offenses.

Driver's license suspended 6 months - 5 years.

WYOMING
Personal use: </= 3 oz.: 0 - 12 months; $100

Possession of any amount: 0 - 6 months; $750

Cultivation of any amount: 0 - 6 months; $1,000

Sale or delivery:

Of any amount: 0 - 10 years; $10,000
Sale to minor: penalty doubles
Sale within 500 feet of school: 2 years MMS; $1,000


 

FEDERAL
Cultivation or delivery or sale:

< 100 plants: 15 - 21 months; $1,000,000
>/= 100 plants or 100 kg.: 5 years MMS - 40 years; $2,000,000
>/= 1,000 plants or 1,000 kg.: 10 years MMS - life; $10,000,000

Distribution within 1,000 feet of school or playground or within 100 feet of youth center, public pool, video arcade: penalty doubles (1 year MMS unless </= 5 grams). "School" includes public or private place of learning, including adult education centers and institutions of higher learning.

Mailing marijuana or paraphernalia is a federal offense, even when the mail originates and arrives in the same state.