Drug possession and paraphernalia offenses are offenses of holding illegal drugs or the equipment used with them. Under federal law in the United States it is unlawful to knowingly or intentionally possess a controlled substance unless it was obtained directly, or under a valid prescription, from a practitioner acting in the course of professional practice. A separate statute makes it unlawful to sell or offer to sell drug paraphernalia, to use the mails or any facility of interstate commerce to transport it, or to import or export it, with a prison term of up to three years and forfeiture of the paraphernalia on conviction.
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21 U.S. Code section 844 (Cornell LII)
Cornell Law School, Legal Information InstituteSubsection (a)Quote, Subsection (a)
It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally to possess a controlled substance
21 U.S. Code Section 863, Drug paraphernalia (Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute)
Subsection (a)Quote, Subsection (a)
to sell or offer for sale drug paraphernalia
legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives): Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, section 5
legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives)Has Member: Drug Possession, Section textQuote, Has Member: Drug Possession, Section text
Subject to section 28 of this Act and to subsection (4) below, it is an offence for a person to have a controlled drug in his possession in contravention of subsection (1) above.
legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives): Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, section 9A
legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives)Has Member: Drug Paraphernalia Trafficking, Section textQuote, Has Member: Drug Paraphernalia Trafficking, Section text
A person who supplies or offers to supply any article which may be used or adapted to be used (whether by itself or in combination with another article or other articles) in the administration by any person of a controlled drug to himself or another, believing that the article (or the article as adapted) is to be so used in circumstances where the administration is unlawful, is guilty of an offence.
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