Missouri Revised Statutes

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 579.065 (2026)

Trafficking drugs, first degree

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  579.065.  Trafficking drugs, first degree — penalty. — 1.  A person commits the offense of trafficking drugs in the first degree if, except as authorized by this chapter or chapter 195, such person knowingly distributes, delivers, manufactures, produces or attempts to distribute, deliver, manufacture or produce:

  (1)  More than thirty grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of heroin;

  (2)  More than one hundred fifty grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of coca leaves, except coca leaves and extracts of coca leaves from which cocaine, ecgonine, and derivatives of ecgonine or their salts have been removed; cocaine salts and their optical and geometric isomers, and salts of isomers; ecgonine, its derivatives, their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers; or any compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of any of the foregoing substances;

  (3)  More than five hundred milligrams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD);

  (4)  More than thirty grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of phencyclidine (PCP);

  (5)  More than four grams of phencyclidine;

  (6)  More than thirty kilograms of a mixture or substance containing marijuana;

  (7)  More than thirty grams of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of the following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system: amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers and salts of its optical isomers; methamphetamine, its salts, optical isomers and salts of its optical isomers; phenmetrazine and its salts; or methylphenidate;

  (8)  More than thirty grams of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine;

  (9)  One gram or more of flunitrazepam for the first offense;

  (10)  Any amount of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid for the first offense;

  (11)  More than three milligrams of fentanyl, or any derivative thereof, or any compound, mixture, or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, or its optical isomers or analogues; or

  (12)  Any amount of carfentanil.

  2.  The offense of trafficking drugs in the first degree is a class B felony.

  3.  The offense of trafficking drugs in the first degree is a class A felony if the quantity involved is:

  (1)  Ninety grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of heroin; or

  (2)  Four hundred fifty grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of coca leaves, except coca leaves and extracts of coca leaves from which cocaine, ecgonine, and derivatives of ecgonine or their salts have been removed; cocaine salts and their optical and geometric isomers, and salts of isomers; ecgonine, its derivatives, their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers; or any compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of any of the foregoing substances; or

  (3)  One gram or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD); or

  (4)  Ninety grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of phencyclidine (PCP); or

  (5)  Twelve grams or more of phencyclidine; or

  (6)  One hundred kilograms or more of a mixture or substance containing marijuana; or

  (7)  Ninety grams or more of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of the following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system: amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers and salts of its optical isomers; methamphetamine, its salts, optical isomers and salts of its optical isomers; phenmetrazine and its salts; or methylphenidate; or

  (8)  More than thirty grams of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of the following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system: amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of its optical isomers; methamphetamine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of its optical isomers; phenmetrazine and its salts; or methylphenidate, and the location of the offense was within two thousand feet of real property comprising a public or private elementary, vocational, or secondary school, college, community college, university, or any school bus, in or on the real property comprising public housing or any other governmental assisted housing, or within a motor vehicle, or in any structure or building which contains rooms furnished for the accommodation or lodging of guests, and kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public as a place where sleeping accommodations are sought for pay or compensation to transient guests or permanent guests; or

  (9)  Ninety grams or more of any material, compound, mixture or preparation which contains any quantity of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine; or

  (10)  More than thirty grams of any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine and the location of the offense was within two thousand feet of real property comprising a public or private elementary, vocational, or secondary school, college, community college, university, or any school bus, in or on the real property comprising public housing or any other governmental assisted housing, within a motor vehicle, or in any structure or building which contains rooms furnished for the accommodation or lodging of guests, and kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public as a place where sleeping accommodations are sought for pay or compensation to transient guests or permanent guests; or

  (11)  One gram or more of flunitrazepam for a second or subsequent offense; or

  (12)  Any amount of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid for a second or subsequent offense; or

  (13)  Fourteen milligrams or more of fentanyl, or any derivative thereof, or any compound, mixture, or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, or its optical isomers or analogues; or

  (14)  More than five hundredths of a milligram of carfentanil.

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(L. 1989 S.B. 215 & 58, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1147, et al., A.L. 2001 H.B. 471, A.L. 2012 S.B. 628, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491, A.L. 2020 H.B. 1896, A.L. 2024 S.B. 754, et al., A.L. 2026 S.B. 1421)

Transferred 2014; formerly 195.222

Severability clause, see § 1.1010

CROSS REFERENCE:

No bail, certain defendants, certain offenses, 544.671

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases (4 in the last 5 years), 2020–2026 · leading case: State of Missouri v. Rodrigo J. Diaz, 611 S.W.3d 373 (Mo. Ct. App. 2020).
State of Missouri v. Rodrigo J. Diaz, 611 S.W.3d 373 (Mo. Ct. App. 2020). · cites it 5× “1 Defendant's sole point on appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction.”
State of Missouri v. Samuel Lee Hines (Mo. Ct. App. 2024). · cites it 4× “In his sole point on appeal, Hines claims that insufficient evidence was presented of his possession or purpose. He argues he did not have joint constructive possession of concealed fentanyl and that he did not know the nature of the pills.”
State of Missouri vs. Semaj J. Foster (Mo. Ct. App. 2025). · cites it 4× “Foster appeals the judgment of the Circuit Court of Grundy County, Missouri ("trial court"), convicting him, after a jury trial, of one count of drug trafficking in the first degree for knowingly attempting to transport and distribute 51 grams of methamphetamine, section…”
Jason Norman v. Missouri Dep't of Corr., 601 S.W.3d 295 (Mo. Ct. App. 2020). · cites it 2× “222 (defining and prescribing the felony classification for the offense of trafficking drugs, first degree) to section 579.065; transferred section 195.”
State of Missouri, Plaintiff-respondent v. Carl W. Dill, II, 693 S.W.3d 177 (Mo. Ct. App. 2024). · cites it 2× “Under the circumstances at issue in this appeal, a person commits the offense of first- degree trafficking in violation of section 579.065 1 if that person: knowingly distributes, delivers, manufactures, produces or attempts to distribute, deliver, manufacture or produce: 1…”
Farley (W.D. Mo. 2026). · cites it 2× “Count IV in the Original Petition alleged the Norris Defendants “violated Section 579.065 of the Missouri Revised Statutes, by knowingly providing … Decedent with fatal amounts of Amphetamine and Methamphetamine while a guest in their home.”
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