PART X-B. TRANSACTIONS IN
DRUG-RELATED OBJECTS PROHIBITED
§1021. Definitions
A. As used in this Part, unless the context clearly otherwise indicates, the term "drug
paraphernalia" means and includes but is not limited to:
(1) 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, 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 the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law, as scheduled in R.S. 40:964.
(2) 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.
(3) Kits used, intended for use, or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding,
converting, producing, processing, or preparing controlled substances.
(4) Isomerization devices used, intended for use, or designed for use in increasing
the potency of any species of plant which is a controlled substance.
(5) Testing equipment used, intended for use, or designed for use in identifying, or
in analyzing the strength, effectiveness, or purity of controlled substances.
(6) Diluents and adulterants, such as quinine, hydrochloride, mannitol, mannite,
dextrose, and lactose, used, intended for use, or designed for use in cutting controlled
substances.
(7) 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.
(8) Blenders, bowls, containers, spoons, and mixing devices used, intended for use,
or designed for use in compounding controlled substances.
(9) Capsules, balloons, envelopes, and other containers used, intended for use, or
designed for use in packaging small quantities of controlled substances.
(10) Containers and other objects used, intended for use, or designed for use in
storing or concealing controlled substances.
(11) Hypodermic syringes, needles, and other objects used, intended for use, or
designed for use in parenterally injecting controlled substances into the human body.
(12) 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:
(a) Metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic pipes with or without
screens, permanent screens, hashish heads, or punctured metal bowls.
(b) Water pipes.
(c) Carburetion tubes and devices.
(d) Smoking and carburetion masks.
(e) Roach clips, meaning 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.
(f) Miniature cocaine spoons, and cocaine vials.
(g) Chamber pipes.
(h) Carburetor pipes.
(i) Electric pipes.
(j) Air-driven pipes.
(k) Chillums.
(l) Bongs.
(m) Ice pipes or chillers.
B. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the term "drug
paraphernalia" shall not include rapid fentanyl test strips (FTS) or any testing equipment or
devices solely used, intended for use, or designed to determine whether a substance contains
fentanyl or its analogues.
C. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the term "drug
paraphernalia" shall not include any equipment or devices solely used or intended for use for
the inhalation of raw or crude marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinols, or a chemical derivative of
tetrahydrocannabinols when the person is a patient of a state-sponsored medical marijuana
program and possesses medical marijuana in a form permissible under R.S. 40:1046 for
therapeutic use.
Added by Acts 1980, No. 669, §1; Acts 2006, No. 676, §3, eff. July 1, 2006; Acts
2022, No. 137, §1; Acts 2022, No. 271, §4; Acts 2022, No. 499, §1.