Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

Re: First drug offense

I am aware of no law in the Commonwealth in regard to a distribution charge involving any

proscribed drug, whether MDMA or something

else, that specifies that a person so-charged with distribution of the proscribed drug and who

enters rehab, shall automatically go free of any jail time.

In passing sentence on a defendant convicted of a drug charge, a judge will always take into consideration whether the person has entered into a drug therapy program---and, more importantly,

whether the individual has completed it, or is likely to complete it.