Counseling Drugs (MPU)
Your Situation
This webpage will interest you, if you need an MPU due to drug offences. While in the case of the legal drug alcohol an MPU is only ordered, if you were driving in a state of drunkenness, the situation with illegal drugs is more complex. Although the legal foundations of an MPU order do constantly change – which has lead to considerable uncertainty especially in the case of cannabis – we may yet discern some basic principles of duration.
Possessing drugs, consumption and mpu-order
Generally, the mere possession of drugs is not sufficient to order an MPU. The driver’s license office needs legally usable clues, that you have also consumed these drugs. This encompasses for example a blood sample on the day of the offence, a positive drug screening or a statement in front of the police, in which you admitted to have taken drugs. If such clear evidence is missing, an MPU will, even in the case of so-called “heavy” drugs, not be ordered.
“Light” versus “heavy” drugs
Should the consumption however be proved one way or the other – mostly in case of a blood sample at the day of the offence – we have to distinguish two variations.
a. Cannabis (Hashish) as a so-called “light drug”
Hashish resp. its effective substance cannabis plays insofar a special role, as here the mere consumption does not automatically lead to an MPU. The criteria of an MPU ordering are however constantly changing, and have yielded to a discussion of threshold values which is inscrutable to outsiders. Therefore only the concrete inquiry can clarify, if you will have to face an MPU.
Up to now the following trend is discernible. If a blood sample of less than 1 ng/ml of pure THC is measured on the day of offence, and if the value of the carbon-acid (THC-COOH) is less than 10 ng/ml, you have a good chance of not having to deal with an MPU. If one of these parameters is higher, or if other complicating moments – like the consumption of alcohol – are present, or if you repeatedly were caught with cannabis while driving, you have to be prepared for two consequences. Either the driver’s license office will ask for a special medical expertise (Facharztgutachten), or it will additionally require an MPU. This order can also follow instantly.
b. Other “heavy” drugs (Ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, amphetamines (e.g. speed) etc.)
Dear visitor of my website,
as you can see, the web project is still under development. It will be finished this year in summer and will permanently be updated, for you to always receive the newest information. Please do understand, that the actual page is presently not yet available. Should you want to know more about my counseling offer concerning drugs, you can reach me by e-mail or phone under (089) 291 651 63. You can also check the German page, which will be ahead in the production.
Since the legal situation in the case of cannabis is constantly changing, which could also find its reflection in the crieria of a positive expertise, and since you will have in any case have to present exonerating medical evidence, it is highly advisable to soon contact me or a colleage for further individual information. Please do not hesitate to phone me.
Yours,
Dr. M. Junker