(Effective July 1, 2027) Penalties for sale, etc., of drug paraphernalia
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-265.3
in effectA. 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 a controlled substance, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
B. Any person 18 years of age or older who violates subsection A by selling drug paraphernalia to a minor who is at least three years junior to the accused in age is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
C. Any person 18 years of age or older who distributes drug paraphernalia to a minor is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
1981, c. 598; 1983, c. 535; 1984, c. 31; 2026, Sp. Sess. I, c. 1 .
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