NRS453.554. “Drug paraphernalia” defined.  


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  •       1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, as used in NRS 453.554 to 453.566, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, “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, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance in violation of this chapter. The term includes, but is not limited to:

          (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 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, such as quinine hydrochloride, mannitol, mannite, 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 and mixing devices used, intended for use, or designed for use in compounding 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; and

          (k) 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:

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

                 (2) Water pipes;

                 (3) Smoking masks;

                 (4) Roach clips, which are 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;

                 (5) Cocaine spoons and cocaine vials;

                 (6) Carburetor pipes and carburetion tubes and devices;

                 (7) Chamber pipes;

                 (8) Electric pipes;

                 (9) Air-driven pipes;

                 (10) Chillums;

                 (11) Bongs; and

                 (12) Ice pipes or chillers.

          2.  The term does not include any type of hypodermic syringe, needle, instrument, device or implement intended or capable of being adapted for the purpose of administering drugs by subcutaneous, intramuscular or intravenous injection.

      (Added to NRS by 1981, 405; A 2013, 3174)