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 two, three, or four years.
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 11351.5
Offenses Involving Controlled Substances Formerly Classified as Narcotics
Known as the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act
The act spans §§ 11000–11651 (376 sections).
Applied in 25 court decisions — leading case 58 Cal. 4th 1415 - People v. Scott (2014)
Most recently applied in United States v. Steven Duarte (May 2025)
Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 749, Sec. 3
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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