For the purpose of this section, the following definition apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
Drug Paraphernalia.
1. Except as otherwise provided in item 2 below, “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, enhancing, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance in violation of M.S. Chapter 152, as it may be amended from time to time.
2. “Drug paraphernalia” does not include the possession, manufacture, delivery, or sale of hypodermic needles or syringes.
3. The term “paraphernalia” includes, without limitation:
a. 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;
b. Kits used, intended for use, or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, or preparing controlled substances;
c. Isomerization devices used, intended for use, or designed for use in increasing the potency of any species of plant, which is a controlled substance;
d. Testing equipment used, intended for use, or designed for use in identifying or in analyzing the strength, effectiveness, or purity of controlled substances;
e. Scales and balances used, intended for use, or designed for use in weighing or measuring controlled substances;
f. Diluents and adulterants, including quinine hydrochloride, mannitol, dextrose, and lactose, used, intended for use, or designed for use in cutting controlled substances;
g. 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;
h. Blenders, bowls, containers, spoons, grinders, and mixing devices used, intended for use, or designed for use in compounding, manufacturing, producing, processing, or preparing controlled substances;
i. Capsules, balloons, envelopes, and other containers used, intended for use, or designed for use in packaging small quantities of controlled substances;
j. Containers and other objects used, intended for use, or designed for use in storing or concealing controlled substances or products or materials used or intended for use in manufacturing, producing, processing, or preparing controlled substances;
k. Objects used, intended for use, or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing controlled substances to include, but not limited to, marijuana, cocaine, hashish, or hashish oil into the human body, including:
i. Metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish heads, or punctured metal bowls;
ii. Water pipes;
iii. Carburetion tubes and devices;
iv. Smoking and carburetion masks;
v. Objects, sometimes commonly referred to as roach clips, used to hold burning material, for example, a marijuana cigarette, that has become too small or too short to be held in the hand;
vi. Miniature cocaine spoons and cocaine vials;
vii. Chamber pipes;
viii. Carburetor pipes;
ix. Electric pipes;
x. Air driven pipes;
xi. Chillums;
xii. Bongs; and
xiii. Ice pipes or chillers.
l. Ingredients or components to be used or intended or designed to be used in manufacturing, producing, processing, preparing, testing, or analyzing a controlled substance, whether or not otherwise lawfully obtained, including anhydrous ammonia, nonprescription medications, methamphetamine precursor drugs, or lawfully dispensed controlled substances.
(Ord. passed 4-22-2015)