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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71689</law_id><section_number>18.2-248.03</section_number><catch_line>Manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute methamphetamine; penalty</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-1716.2</reference><reference>16.1-269.1</reference><reference>18.2-46.1</reference><reference>19.2-303.01</reference><reference>19.2-392.02</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="7">Crimes Involving Health and Safety</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Drugs</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Notwithstanding any other provision of <span class="dictionary">law</span>, any person who manufactures, sells, gives, distributes, or possesses with <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute 28 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, its salts, isomers, or salts of its isomers is guilty of a <span class="dictionary">felony</span> punishable by a fine of not more than $500,000 and imprisonment for not less than five nor more than 40 years, three years of which shall be a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment to be served consecutively with any other sentence. <a id="paragraph-258312" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-248.03/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Notwithstanding any other provision of <span class="dictionary">law</span>, any person who manufactures, sells, gives, distributes, or possesses with <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to manufacture, sell, give, or distribute 227 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, its salts, isomers, or salts of its isomers is guilty of a <span class="dictionary">felony</span> punishable by a fine of not more than $1 million and imprisonment for not less than five years nor more than life, five years of which shall be a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment to be served consecutively with any other sentence. <a id="paragraph-258313" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-248.03/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2008, cc. 858, 874.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
