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RSMo 579.076effective 01 Jan 2017

Unlawful manufacture of drug paraphernalia

In plain English

This law is about making drug paraphernalia to sell or give to others. If someone makes items meant to help people use, grow, or make illegal drugs — and they know or should know that's what the items will be used for — that is a crime. Making these items is a misdemeanor, but making them for business or profit is a more serious crime called a felony.

Penalties named in this law
class A misdemeanorup to 1 year in jail
class E felonyup to 4 years in prison

Classifications stated in the statute. Actual outcomes vary.

Word-for-word law

579.076. of — penalties. — 1. A person commits the of unlawful manufacture of drug paraphernalia if he or she with intent to drug paraphernalia, knowing, or under circumstances where one reasonably should know, that it will be used to plant, , cultivate, grow, harvest, , compound, convert, produce, , prepare, test, analyze, pack, repack, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise introduce into the human body a or an in violation of this chapter or chapter 195.

2. The offense of unlawful manufacture of drug paraphernalia is a , unless done for commercial purposes, in which case it is a .

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Source & history notes

(L. 1989 S.B. 215 & 58, A.L. 2001 H.B. 471 merged with S.B. 89 & 37, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491) Transferred 2014; formerly 195.235; Effective 1-01-17

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