Section 11014.5 - [Effective 1/1/2025] "Drug paraphernalia" defined(a) "Drug paraphernalia" means all equipment, products, and materials of any kind that are designed for use or marketed for use, in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance in violation of this division. It includes, but is not limited to:(1) Kits designed for use or marketed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, or harvesting of any species of plant that is a controlled substance or from which a controlled substance can be derived.(2) Kits designed for use or marketed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, or preparing controlled substances.(3) Isomerization devices designed for use or marketed for use in increasing the potency of any species of plant that is a controlled substance.(4) Scales and balances designed for use or marketed for use in weighing or measuring controlled substances.(5) Containers and other objects designed for use or marketed for use in storing or concealing controlled substances.(6) Hypodermic syringes, needles, and other objects designed for use or marketed for use in parenterally injecting controlled substances into the human body.(7) Objects designed for use or marketed for use in ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing cannabis, cocaine, hashish, or hashish oil into the human body, such as:(A) Carburetion tubes and devices.(B) Smoking and carburetion masks.(C) Roach clips, meaning objects used to hold burning material, such as a cannabis cigarette, that has become too small or too short to be held in the hand.(D) Miniature cocaine spoons, and cocaine vials.(K) Ice pipes or chillers.(8) Testing equipment designed for use or marketed for use in identifying, or in analyzing the strength, effectiveness, or purity of, controlled substances, except as otherwise provided in subdivision (d).(b) For the purposes of this section, the phrase "marketed for use" means advertising, distributing, offering for sale, displaying for sale, or selling in a manner that promotes the use of equipment, products, or materials with controlled substances.(c) In determining whether an object is drug paraphernalia, a court or other authority may 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) Instructions, oral or written, provided with the object concerning its use for ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing a controlled substance into the human body.(3) Descriptive materials accompanying the object that explain or depict its use.(4) National and local advertising concerning its use.(5) The manner in which the object is displayed for sale.(6) 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.(7) Expert testimony concerning its use.(d) Notwithstanding paragraph (8) of subdivision (a), "drug paraphernalia" does not include any testing equipment designed, marketed, intended to be used, or used, to test a substance for the presence of contaminants, toxic substances, hazardous compounds, or other adulterants, or controlled substances that include, without limitation, fentanyl, ketamine, gamma hydroxybutyric acid, or any analog of fentanyl.(e) If any provision of this section or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, it is the intent of the Legislature that the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the section that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application and to this end the provisions of this section are severable.Ca. Health and Saf. Code § 11014.5
Amended by Stats 2024 ch 701 (AB 2136),s 1, eff. 1/1/2025.Amended by Stats 2022 ch 201 (AB 1598),s 1, eff. 1/1/2023.Amended by Stats 2017 ch 27 (SB 94),s 114, eff. 6/27/2017.This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.