Title 9 PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE
Chapter 9.21 DRUG PARAPHERNALIA
9.21.010 Defined.
A. “Drug paraphernalia” means 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 a controlled substance as
defined in the Controlled Substances Act (Sections 30-31-1 to 30-31-40, New
Mexico Statutes Annotated 1978, as the same now exists or as the same may be
from time to time amended hereafter). 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 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 any species of plant which is a
controlled substance;
4. Testing equipment used, intended for use, or
designed for use in identifying or in analyzing the strength, effectiveness or
purity of controlled substances;
5. Scales and balances used, intended for
use, or designed for use in weighing or measuring controlled
substances;
6. Diluents and adulterants, such as quinine hydrochloride,
mannitol, mannite, dextrose and lactose, used, intended for use, or designed for
use in cutting controlled substances;
7. 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;
8. Blenders, bowls, containers,
spoons and mixing devices used, intended for use, or designed for use in
compounding controlled substances;
9. Capsules, balloons, envelopes and
other containers used, intended for use, or designed for use in packaging small
quantities of controlled substances;
10. Containers and other objects used,
intended for use, or designed to use in storing or concealing controlled
substances;
11. Hypodermic syringes, needles and other objects used,
intended for use, or designed for use in parenterally injected controlled
substances into the human body;
12. 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,
m. Ice pipes
or chillers.
B. In determining whether an object is drug paraphernalia, a
court or other authority should consider, in addition to all other logically
relevant factors, the following:
1. Statements by an owner or by anyone in
control of the object concerning its use;
2. Prior convictions, if any, of
an owner, or of anyone in control of the object, under any state or federal law
relating to any controlled substance;
3. The proximity of the object, in
time and space, to a direct violation of this act;
4. The proximity of the
object to controlled substances;
5. The existence of any residue of
controlled substance on the object;
6. Direct or circumstantial evidence of
the intent of an owner, or of anyone in control of the object, to deliver it to
persons who he knows, or should reasonably know, intend to use the object to
facilitate a violation of this act; the innocence of an owner, or of anyone in
control of the object, as to a direct violation of this act should not prevent a
finding that the object is intended for use, or designed for use as drug
paraphernalia;
7. Instructions, oral or written, provided with the object
concerning its use;
8. Descriptive materials accompanying the object which
explain or depict its use;
9. National and local advertising concerning its
use;
10. The manner in which the object is displayed for
sale;
11. Whether the owner, or anyone in control of the object, is a
legitimate supplier of like or related items to the community, such as a
licensed distributor or dealer of tobacco products;
12. Direct or
circumstantial evidence of the ratio of sales of the object(s) to the total
sales of the business enterprise;
13. The existence and scope of legitimate
uses for the object in the community;
14. Expert testimony concerning its
use.
(Ord. 1150-80 §1, 1980).
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