Title 6 PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS*
Chapter 6.08 DRUG-RELATED OFFENSES
6.08.010 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the following words, terms and
phrases shall have the following respective meanings ascribed to them:
A. "Controlled substance" means any substance, or its
immediate precursor, listed in Schedules I through V, inclusive, of Article II
of Chapter 69.50 of the Revised Code of Washington.
B. "Deliver" means the actual, constructive, or attempted
transfer from one person to another of drug paraphernalia whether or not there
is an agency relationship.
C. "Drug paraphernalia" means all equipment, products and
materials of any kind which are principally intended 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 in
violation of Chapter 69.50 of the Revised Code of Washington. It includes, but
is not limited to:
a. Kits principally intended 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 principally intended or designed for use in
manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, or preparing
controlled substances;
c. Isomerization devices principally intended or designed for
use in increasing the potency of any species of plant which is a controlled
substance;
d. Testing equipment principally intended or designed for use
in identifying, or in analyzing the strength, effectiveness or purity of
controlled substances;
e. Scales and balances principally intended or designed for
use in weighing or measuring controlled substances;
f. Dilutents and adulterants, such as quinine hydrochloride,
mannitol, mannite, dextrose and lactose, principally intended or designed for
use in cutting controlled substances;
g. Separation gins and sifters principally intended 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
principally intended or designed for use in compounding controlled
substances;
i. Capsules, balloons, envelopes and other containers
principally intended or designed for use in packaging small quantities of
controlled substances;
j. Containers and other objects principally intended or
designed for use in storing or concealing controlled substances;
k. Hypodermic syringes, needles and other objects principally
intended or designed for use in parenterally injecting controlled substances
into the human body;
l. Objects principally intended or designed for use in
ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing marijuana, cocaine, hashish, or
hashish oil into the human body, such as:
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. Roach clips; meaning objects used to hold burning
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;
xiii. Ice pipes or chillers;
2. 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:
a. Statements by an owner or by anyone in control of the
object concerning its use;
b. The proximity of the object, in time and space, to a
direct violation of this chapter or Chapter 69.50 of the Revised Code of
Washington;
c. The proximity of the object to controlled
substances;
d. The existence of any residue of controlled substances on
the object;
e. Direct or circumstantial evidence of the intent of an
owner, or of anyone in control of the object, to deliver it to persons whom he
knows, or should reasonably know, intend to use the object to facilitate a
violation of this chapter or Chapter 69.50 of the Revised Code of Washington;
the innocence of an owner, or of anyone in control of the object, as to a direct
violation of this chapter, shall not prevent a finding that the object is
intended for use, or designed for use, as drug paraphernalia;
f. Instructions, oral or written, provided with the object
which explain or depict its use;
g. Descriptive materials accompanying the object which
explain or depict its use;
h. National and local advertising concerning its
use;
i. The manner in which the object is displayed for
sale;
j. 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;
k. Direct or circumstantial evidence of the ratio of sales of
the object(s) to the total sales of the business enterprise;
l. The existence and scope of legitimate uses for the object
in the community;
m. Expert testimony concerning its use.
D. "Immediate precursor" means a substance which the State
Board of Pharmacy has found to be and by rule designates as being the principal
compound commonly used or produced primarily for use, and which is an immediate
chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a
controlled substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail, or
limit manufacture.
E. "Manufacture" means the production, preparation,
propagation, compounding, conversion, or processing of a controlled substance,
either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin,
or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of
extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of
the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container; except that this term
does not include the preparation, compounding, packaging, or labeling of a
controlled substance by a practitioner, as defined by Chapter 69.50 of the
Revised Code of Washington, as an incident to administering or dispensing of a
controlled substance in the course of the practitioner’s practice, nor
does this term include the preparation, compounding, packaging, or labeling of a
controlled substance by a practitioner, as defined by Chapter 69.50 of the
Revised Code of Washington, or by an authorized agent under the
practitioner’s supervision, for the purpose of, or as an incident to,
research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale.
F. "Marijuana" means all parts of the plant of the genus
Cannabis L., whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from
any part of the plant and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative,
mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin. It does not include
the mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made
from the seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative,
mixture, or preparation of the mature stalks (except the resin extracted
therefrom), fiber, oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of the plant which is
incapable of germination.
G. "Person" means individual, corporation, government or
governmental subdivision of agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership
or association or any other legal entity. (Ord. 2477 § 1 (part),
1980).