Drug Paraphernalia Charges in Florida

Most bodies are acquainted of penalties that bodies face for possessing, selling, manufacturing, or carrying a controlled substance. However, abounding others are afraid to apprentice that Florida additionally criminalizes the possession, sale, manufacture, or commitment of assertive types of paraphernalia.

Under Florida Statute § 893.145, biologic accouterments is authentic as actuality "all equipment, products, and abstracts of any affectionate which are used, advised for use, or advised for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, transporting, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or contrarily introducing" a controlled actuality into the animal body. Examples of accouterments listed beneath the statute include, but are not bound to the afterward examples of items that may be used, advised for use, or advised for use in assertive controlled actuality activities:

Kits for manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, or advancing controlled substances or planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, or agriculture of any breed of bulb which is a controlled actuality or from which a controlled actuality can be derived.

Isomerization accessories for accretion the authority of any breed of bulb which is a controlled actuality or testing accessories for identifying, or in allegory the strength, effectiveness, or abstention of, actionable drugs.

Scales and balances for belief or barometer actionable drugs.

Diluents and adulterants for acid actionable drugs.

Separation gins and sifters for removing twigs and seeds from, or in contrarily charwoman or refining, cannabis.

Blenders, bowls, containers, spoons, and bond accessories for compounding controlled substances.

Capsules, balloons, envelopes, and added containers for packaging baby quantities of actionable drugs or containers and added altar for storing, concealing, or alteration actionable drugs.

Hypodermic syringes, needles, and added altar for injecting actionable drugs into the animal body.

Objects for ingesting, inhaling, or contrarily introducing cannabis, cocaine, hashish, hashish oil, or nitrous oxide into the animal body, such as bongs, roach clips, assorted pipes, or abounding added types of objects.
There are assorted crimes listed beneath Florida Statute § 893.147 that a being may be answerable with apropos to paraphernalia. These include:
Use or Control of Biologic Accouterments - It is a first-degree abomination for any being to use or acquire with absorbed to use paraphernalia.

Manufacture or Commitment of Biologic Accouterments - It is a catechize abomination for any being to deliver, acquire with absorbed to deliver, or accomplish with absorbed to bear paraphernalia.

Delivery of Biologic Accouterments to a Minor - It is a second-degree abomination for any being 18 years of age or over to bear accouterments he or she knows or analytic should apperceive will be acclimated to plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, pack, repack, store, contain, or burrow an actionable drug, or inject, ingest, inhale, or contrarily acquaint a controlled actuality into the animal anatomy to a being beneath 18 years of age. It is a first-degree abomination if the declared blackmailer sells or contrarily delivers hypodermic syringes, needles, or added altar which may be used, are advised for use, or are advised for use in injecting substances into the animal anatomy to any being beneath 18 years of age.

Transportation of Biologic Accouterments - It is a catechize abomination for any being to use, acquire with the absorbed to use, or accomplish with the absorbed to use paraphernalia, alive or beneath affairs in which one analytic should apperceive that it will be acclimated to carriage a controlled actuality or actionable contraband.

Advertisement of Biologic Accouterments - It is a first-degree abomination for any being to abode any advertisement in any newspaper, magazine, handbill, or added publication, alive or beneath affairs area one analytic should apperceive that the purpose of the advertisement, in accomplished or in part, is to advance the auction of altar advised or advised for use as paraphernalia.

Retail Auction of Biologic Accouterments - It is a first-degree abomination for the aboriginal breach and a catechize abomination for a additional or consecutive breach if any being advisedly and foolishly sells or offers for auction at retail any paraphernalia, added than a aqueduct that is primarily fabricated of briar, meerschaum, clay, or blah cob.
While biologic accouterments accuse can absolutely accept actual austere consequences, declared offenders usually accept assorted defenses in these cases. In accession to analytic the area on which law administration may accept bedeviled the declared paraphernalia, there are generally questions about who absolutely bedevilled the declared accouterments and whether the accouterments was absolutely acclimated for an actionable biologic as abounding times these types of equipment, products, and abstracts can accept added allowable purposes.