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.
Classifications stated in the statute. Actual outcomes vary.
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 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
Related Missouri laws
Possession of an imitation controlled substance
RSMo 579.078
Unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia
RSMo 579.074
Furnishing materials for production of a controlled substance
RSMo 579.072
Delivery of an imitation controlled substance
RSMo 579.080
Creating a danger
RSMo 579.070
Marketing of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine
RSMo 579.082
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