Adults may not recruit or encourage minors to handle certain controlled substances, and violations carry imprisonment or fines.
§981.2. Soliciting minors to produce, manufacture, distribute, or dispense controlled dangerous substances A. No person eighteen years of age or older shall solicit, procure, or counsel any person under eighteen years of age to produce, manufacture, distribute, or dispense or possess with the intent to produce, manufacture, distribute, or dispense, in violation of any provision of R.S. 40:966 through R.S. 40:970, any controlled dangerous substance listed in Schedules I, II, III, IV, or V, or to distribute or attempt to distribute, in violation of R.S. 40:989, a chemical substance commonly known as "rush". B. Except as provided in Subsection C of this Section, any person who violates the provisions of this Section shall upon conviction be punished by a term of imprisonment of not more than one and one-half times the longest term of imprisonment authorized by the applicable provisions of R.S. 40:966 through 970, or by a fine of not more than twice that authorized by such applicable provisions, or both. C. Any person eighteen years of age or older who violates the provisions of this Section by soliciting, procuring, or counseling a person under eighteen years of age to distribute or to attempt to distribute cocaine, oxycodone, heroin, methamphetamine, or methadone in violation of R.S. 40:967(A) or (B) shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment at hard labor for not less than ten nor more than thirty years, at least ten years of which shall be served without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. Acts 1988, No. 885, §1; Acts 1989, No. 372, §1; Acts 1991, No. 837, §1; Acts 2001, No. 403, §4, eff. June 15, 2001; Acts 2005, No. 337, §1; Acts 2006, No. 68, §1; Acts 2012, No. 616, §1, eff. June 7, 2012.