Hello all!
This is my first post here, and I'm looking to some of you guys to help settle a little debate between me and my friends.
I'm a junior at Illinois State University and I'm majoring in Criminal Law and Justice Sciences. Last semester I took a criminal law class with a former judge but we never hit on this controversial point. Obviously, it is illegal to be in possession of marijuana or paraphernalia in Illinois, but is it illegal to be PHYSICALLY high? I've done Google search after Google search and the best thing I can come up with is "internal possession" but I have no clue if that is valid in Illinois.
What I would like help settling is a situation such as this:
Say you and a friend were high on marijuana and were walking down the street and were stopped by a police officer (say you were walking down the party area of campus) and the officer smelled weed on you, could you be in trouble? Let's say in this scenario that you don't have anything on you but your buddy does. Obviously you wouldn't be charged with what your buddy had but if you admit to the cop that you are high can you get in trouble?
Thanks in advance to the responses and I look forward to putting in my .02 here on the forum!
This is my first post here, and I'm looking to some of you guys to help settle a little debate between me and my friends.
I'm a junior at Illinois State University and I'm majoring in Criminal Law and Justice Sciences. Last semester I took a criminal law class with a former judge but we never hit on this controversial point. Obviously, it is illegal to be in possession of marijuana or paraphernalia in Illinois, but is it illegal to be PHYSICALLY high? I've done Google search after Google search and the best thing I can come up with is "internal possession" but I have no clue if that is valid in Illinois.
What I would like help settling is a situation such as this:
Say you and a friend were high on marijuana and were walking down the street and were stopped by a police officer (say you were walking down the party area of campus) and the officer smelled weed on you, could you be in trouble? Let's say in this scenario that you don't have anything on you but your buddy does. Obviously you wouldn't be charged with what your buddy had but if you admit to the cop that you are high can you get in trouble?
Thanks in advance to the responses and I look forward to putting in my .02 here on the forum!