“But no money was exchanged!”

There is the myth that if a person gives another person drugs, and no money is exchanged then a person cannot be charged with doing anything wrong if the person who exchanged the drugs has a prescription for those drugs. And even if he does not have a prescription he cannot be charged with sale of drugs. It is true that a sale contemplates an exchange of money or some form of consideration.70  However, the statute for sale of drugs also includes delivery of drugs, and an exchange of money or some form of consideration is not necessary to prove delivery.71

The basis in truth for this myth may stem from the fact that in a prostitution case, and as previously mentioned in a drug sale case, money or some form of financial consideration must be exchanged or at least promised.72