What is the test for section 654 of the California Criminal Code for possessing and transporting methamphetamine and marijuana?

Since the convictions under counts 2 and 3 were based on different acts, section 654 would apply only if the separate acts had the same "intent and objective." Plainly they did not. (People v. Blake (1998) 68 Cal.App.4th 509.) As the Attorney General argues, "The evidence highlighted in Blake is strikingly similar to the evidence in this case and supports the same reasonable inference that appellant had separate objectives in possessing the methamphetamine and transporting the marijuana. Here, as in Blake, the methamphetamine and the marijuana were stored in different areas of the carthe marijuana in the trunk of the car and the methamphetamine in a secret compartment in the trunk. Like the marijuana in Blake, the marijuana here was packaged

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