21.   But they also tend to face harsher penalties when arrested for less-serious crimes, such as drug possession, he said.

22.   Defendents convicted of nonviolent drug possession or use will receive drug treatment rather than jail or prison time.

23.   Downey was recently arrested in a Palm Springs hotel room and charged with drug possession, after having served a prison term on a previous drug charge.

24.   Drug possession is a serious crime and severely punished.

25.   Earlier this year the Sentencing Commission proposed removing the disparity in sentencing for drug possession.

26.   Drug possession is not a healthy exercise, but it hardly equates with what was done to Miller and King.

27.   First, there was the husband who brought two dozen roses for his wife, who was being arraigned on a charge of misdemeanor drug possession.

28.   Federal law-enforcement officials said doctors could be prosecuted under laws against conspiring to distribute drugs, drug possession and improper record-keeping.

29.   He also had a string of arrests for drug possession, prosecutors said.

30.   He accepted deferred prosecution after being charged for drug possession, according to records.