by georgeroland | Apr 7, 2017 | Drug Charges, Uncategorized
Commonly, I am asked how long marijuana stays in a person’s system. This is a bad question, because it is imprecise—by system, do you mean in a person’s urine, hair, or blood? If the concern is drug testing through probation in Denton and most counties, urine is the...
by georgeroland | Feb 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
With the current news of massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Texas and other states, much talk has been devoted to explaining exactly who is being seized by ICE for deportation. Discussion has largely centered on immigrants who have been...
by georgeroland | Feb 2, 2017 | Drug Charge News, Uncategorized
A “Law and Order” approach is toxic for the War on Drugs. That anyone actually has to say (or write) this is staggering in 2017. Forty-five years into the War on Drugs and more than a trillion dollars spent kicking in doors, talking tough talk, and sentencing those...
by georgeroland | Nov 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
Normally, I try to keep this blog out of the political ditches, so to speak, but I believe it’s necessary to address something that president-elect Trump recently said, and, more importantly, to correct any misimpression it might leave people with. On...
by georgeroland | Oct 9, 2016 | Drug Charges, Uncategorized, UNT
Stricter drug enforcement policies created the heroin epidemic. In its 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary, the United States Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration reported that drug poisoning deaths (overdoses) involving opioid...
by georgeroland | Sep 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
I had a client a few years ago who was stopped by Frisco Police one evening around 8pm. My client was a young black male, and the officer who stopped him had received a dispatch about a young black male who had robbed a Sonic twenty or so minutes earlier. The cop had...
