Health and Safety Code section 11351.5

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Health and Safety Code section 11351.5 prohibits the possession for sale of cocaine base.

Statute

Except as otherwise provided in this division, every person who possesses for sale or purchases for purposes of sale cocaine base which is specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) of Section 11054, shall be punished by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for a period of three, four, or five years.

(Added by Stats.1986, c. 1044, § 4. Amended by Stats.1987, c. 1174, § 3, eff. Sept. 26, 1987; Stats.2011, c. 15 (A.B.109), § 153, eff. April 4, 2011, operative Oct. 1, 2011.)

Punishment

Possession for sale of cocaine base is punishable as a 3-4-5 county jail felony.