CRIMES INVOLVING HEALTH AND SAFETY

A person is guilty of possessing with intent to sell drug paraphernalia if:

1. He distributes any item where he knows or should know that
2. The person intends to use it to
3. illegally plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, pack, repack, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise introduce into the human body marijuana or a controlled substance

Possessing with intent to distribute paraphernalia is punishable by up to a year in jail and/or a $2,500 fine.

• VIRGINIA CODE: http://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacodefull/title18.2/chapter7/article1.1/

Any person who sells or possesses with intent to sell drug paraphernalia, knowing, or under circumstances where one reasonably should know, that it is either designed for use or intended by such person for use to illegally plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, pack, repack, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise introduce into the human body marijuana or a controlled substance, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Any person eighteen years of age or older who violates subsection A hereof by selling drug paraphernalia to a minor who is at least three years junior to the accused in age shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.

Any person eighteen years of age or older who distributes drug paraphernalia to a minor shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

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