Drug paraphernalia defined.

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22-42A-1. Drug paraphernalia defined.

The term, drug paraphernalia, means any equipment, products, and materials of any kind which are primarily used, intended for use, or designed for use by the person in possession of them, in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body any controlled substance or marijuana in violation of the provisions of this chapter. It includes, but is not limited to:

(1)Kits used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, or harvesting of any species of plant which is a controlled substance or marijuana or from which a controlled substance can be derived;

(2)Kits used, intended for use, or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, or preparing controlled substances;

(3)Isomerization devices used, intended for use, or designed for use in increasing the potency of marijuana or any species of plant which is a controlled substance;

(4)Scales and balances used, intended for use, or designed for use in weighing or measuring controlled substances;

(5)Diluents and adulterants, such as quinine hydrochloride, mannitol, mannite, dextrose, and lactose, used, intended for use, or designed for use in cutting controlled substances;

(6)Separation gins and sifters used, intended for use, or designed for use in removing twigs and seeds from, or in otherwise cleaning or refining, marijuana;

(7)Capsules, balloons, envelopes, and other containers used, intended for use, or designed for use in packaging small quantities of controlled substances or marijuana;

(8)Containers and other objects used, intended for use, or designed for use in storing or concealing controlled substances or marijuana;

(9)Hypodermic syringes, needles, and other objects used, intended for use, or designed for use in parenterally injecting controlled substances into the human body; and

(10)Objects used, intended for use, or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing marijuana, cocaine, hashish, or hashish oil into the human body, such as:

(a)Metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish heads, or punctured metal bowls;

(b)Water pipes;

(c)Carburetion tubes and devices;

(d)Smoking and carburetion masks;

(e)Roach clips: meaning objects used to hold burning material, such as a marijuana cigarette, that has become too small or too short to be held in the hand;

(f)Miniature cocaine spoons and cocaine vials;

(g)Chamber pipes;

(h)Carburetor pipes;

(i)Electric pipes;

(j)Air-driven pipes;

(k)Chillums;

(l)Bongs; and

(m)Ice pipes or chillers.

Source: SL 1983, ch 180, §1; SL 1984, ch 172, §1.


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