Trafficking By Amount
ORC 2925.03 — one degree up, and the enhancements on top
Trafficking is the same substances and the same weight tiers, charged a degree or more higher, with a second column that goes higher still when an enhancement applies. It also does not require a completed sale. Preparing for shipment, or possessing with intent, is enough.
| Schedule I or II | Amount | Degree, then enhanced |
|---|---|---|
| Under bulk | F-4, enhanced F-3 | |
| Bulk to under 5x bulk | F-3, enhanced F-2 | |
| 5x to under 50x bulk | F-2, enhanced F-1 | |
| 50x to under 100x bulk | F-1, enhanced F-1 | |
| 100x bulk or more | F-1, major drug offender |
| Cocaine | Amount | Degree, then enhanced |
|---|---|---|
| Under 5 g | F-5, enhanced F-4 | |
| 5 to under 10 g | F-4, enhanced F-3 | |
| 10 to under 20 g | F-3, enhanced F-2 | |
| 20 to under 27 g | F-2, enhanced F-1 | |
| 27 to under 100 g | F-1, enhanced F-1 | |
| 100 g or more | F-1, major drug offender |
| Marijuana | Amount | Degree, then enhanced |
|---|---|---|
| A gift of 20 g or less | Minor misdemeanor first time, M-3 after | Same either way |
| Under 200 g | F-5, enhanced F-4 | |
| 200 g to under 1 kg | F-4, enhanced F-3 | |
| 1 to under 5 kg | F-3, enhanced F-2 | |
| 5 to under 20 kg | F-3, enhanced F-2 | |
| 20 to under 40 kg | F-2, enhanced F-1, mandatory prison | |
| 40 kg or more | F-2, enhanced F-1, mandatory maximum |
The enhancement is proximity, and it is wider than people think. The higher column applies when the offence happened in the vicinity of a school or of a juvenile. A 2022 amendment extended the same enhancement to trafficking near a substance addiction services provider, within five hundred feet of one, or to a person the offender knows is in or recently out of treatment.
- Heroin, fentanyl related compounds, LSD, hashish, and controlled substance analogs each have their own trafficking table with the same structure.
- Manufacturing and cultivation is a third section again, and for methamphetamine it carries its own mandatory minimum years.
- Assembling or possessing the chemicals to make a schedule I or II drug is an offence before anything is made.
- Fentanyl trafficking carries an additional specification that can add three to eight mandatory years on top of the sentence.
Trafficking tiers here are abbreviated to the substances people ask about most. The full set covers every schedule and every form, and it is in the Drug Offense Quick Reference Guide and in 2925.03 itself.
Sources for this section (6)
- ORC 2925.03 — Trafficking in drugs
- Drug Offense Quick Reference Guide — Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission, February 2023 edition
- ORC 2925.01 — Drug offence definitions, including bulk amount and unit dose
- ORC 2925.04 — Illegal manufacture of drugs, and cultivation of marihuana
- ORC 2925.041 — Illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs
- ORC 2941.1410 — Major drug offender specification for fentanyl-related compounds
Legal information, not legal advice. Verified as of September 2026. Talk to a licensed Ohio attorney about your situation.