Sentence for dealings with heroin

Justices: Matningsdal, Webster, Noer, Kallerud, Arntzen

The punishment for possession of 136 grams of heroin was three years and six months of imprisonment, see section 232 subsection 1, cf. section 231 subsection 1 of the Penal Code. The Supreme Court referred to the general sentence level being stipulated at a time when the normal strength was around 30-40 percent. The average purity is now reduced to below 20 percent. The relevant material had a strength of 16-17 percent. The Supreme Court found to reduce the sentence discretionarily by around 10 percent from the sentence level based on a strength of 30-40 percent, and stated that this sentence level should generally apply when the heroin has a strength of less than 20 percent.