Hudspith v. Commonwealth

Barrow, I,

dissenting.

An accommodation distribution is “a sale or distribution . . . made, not by a dealer in drugs ... but by an individual citizen who was motivated by a desire to accommodate a friend, without any intent to profit or to induce or to encourage the use of drugs.” Stillwell v. Commonwealth, 219 Va. 214, 219, 247 S.E.2d 360, 364 (1978); see also Heacock v. Commonwealth, 228 Va. 397, 406, 323 S.E.2d 90, 95 (1984). This defendant testified that she obtained from a friend the *139ounce of marijuana she sold to the undercover officer. She did so because another friend asked her to get…