Question: What is the penalty for a juvenile offender in possession of drug paraphernalia? What classification is this crime?
Answer: Arizona law (ARS
§13-3415) states that possession or sale of drug paraphernalia
is a class 6 felony.
Drug Paraphernalia is defined as: all equipment, products
and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use or designed
for use 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 an illegal drug.
So, upon conviction of this crime, the Judge could impose
a prison sentence for an individual to:
- a minimum of 6 months,
- a maximum of 1.5 years
- Fine not to exceed $150,000.
Read more about punishments
for Felonies and Misdemeanors...
Examples of Paraphernalia according to Arizona Law (ARS
§13-3415) are:
- Kits used, intended for use or designed for use in
planting, propagating, cultivating, growing or harvesting any species
of plant which is a drug or from which a drug can be derived.
- Kits used, intended for use or designed for use
in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing or
preparing drugs.
- Isomerization devices used, intended for use or
designed for use in increasing the potency of any species of plant which
is a drug.
- Testing equipment used, intended for use or designed
for use in identifying or analyzing the strength, effectiveness or purity
of drugs.
- Scales and balances used, intended for use or designed
for use in weighing or measuring drugs.
- Diluents and adulterants, such as quinine hydrochloride,
mannitol, mannite, dextrose and lactose, used, intended for use or designed
for use in cutting drugs.
- 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.
- Blenders, bowls, containers, spoons and mixing devices
used, intended for use or designed for use in compounding drugs.
- Capsules, balloons, envelopes and other containers
used, intended for use or designed for use in packaging small quantities
of drugs.
- Containers and other objects used, intended for
use or designed for use in storing or concealing drugs.
- Hypodermic syringes, needles and other objects used,
intended for use or designed for use in parenterally injecting drugs
into the human body.
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- Metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic
or ceramic pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish
heads or punctured metal bowls.
- Water pipes.
- Carburetion tubes and devices.
- Smoking and carburetion masks.
- 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.
- Miniature cocaine spoons and cocaine vials.
- Chamber pipes.
- Carburetor pipes.
- Electric pipes.
- Air-driven pipes.
- Chillums.
- Bongs.
- Ice pipes or chillers.
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