United States v. Bennitt

I respectfully dissent for two reasons.

First, I would hold that Appellant’s actions assisted the ingestion of a controlled substance and amounted to more than distribution. He crushed the pill in the presence of the users. He divided it into two lines. The users then snorted the crushed pill using a dollar bill. This constitutes aiding and abetting wrongful use. Moreover, aiding and abetting wrongful use in this fashion is “an offense ... directly affecting the person.” Helping someone ingest a drug meets a plain English definition of what it means to directly affect the person. The active…