Nevada Code § 453.554

Drug paraphernalia defined
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1. Except as otherwise provided in
subsection 2, as used in NRS 453.554 to 453.566 , inclusive, unless the context
otherwise requires, drug paraphernalia means 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, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging,
repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, ingesting, inhaling or otherwise
introducing into the human body a controlled substance in violation of this
chapter. The term includes, but is not limited to:
(a) 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;
(b) Kits used, intended for use, or designed for
use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing or preparing
controlled substances;
(c) Isomerization devices used, intended for use,
or designed for use in increasing the potency of any species of plant which is
a controlled substance;
(d) Testing equipment, other than testing
products, used, intended for use, or designed for use in identifying, or in
analyzing the strength, effectiveness or purity of controlled substances;
(e) Scales and balances used, intended for use,
or designed for use in weighing or measuring controlled substances;
(f) Diluents and adulterants, such as quinine
hydrochloride, mannitol, mannite, dextrose and lactose, used, intended for use,
or designed for use in cutting controlled substances;
(g) 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;
(h) Blenders, bowls, containers, spoons and
mixing devices used, intended for use, or designed for use in compounding
controlled substances;
(i) Capsules, balloons, envelopes and other
containers used, intended for use, or designed for use in packaging small
quantities of controlled substances;
(j) Containers and other objects used, intended
for use, or designed for use in storing or concealing controlled substances;
and
(k) 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:
(1) Metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone,
plastic or ceramic pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish
heads or punctured metal bowls;
(2) Water pipes;
(3) Smoking masks;
(4) Roach clips, which are 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;
(5) Cocaine spoons and cocaine vials;
(6) Carburetor pipes and carburetion tubes
and devices;
(7) Chamber pipes;
(8) Electric pipes;
(9) Air-driven pipes;
(10) Chillums;
(11) Bongs; and
(12) Ice pipes or chillers.
2. The term does not include:
(a) Any type of hypodermic syringe, needle,
instrument, device or implement intended or capable of being adapted for the
purpose of administering drugs by subcutaneous, intramuscular or intravenous
injection; or
(b) Testing products.
3. As used in this section:
(a) Fentanyl test strip means a strip used to
rapidly test for the presence of fentanyl or other synthetic opiates.
(b) Testing product means a product, including,
without limitation, a fentanyl test strip, that analyzes a controlled substance
for the presence of adulterants.

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