Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia

B & P Code 24200.5.
Selling Drugs or Soliciting Drinks

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 24200, the Department shall revoke a license upon any of the following grounds:

  1. If a retail licensee has knowingly permitted the illegal sale, or negotiations for the sales, of controlled substances or dangerous drugs upon his or her licensed Successive sales, or negotiations for sales, over any continuous period of time shall be deemed evidence of permission.
  2. If the licensee has employed or permitted any persons to solicit or encourage others, directly or indirectly, to buy them drinks in the licensed premises under any commission, percentage, salary, or other profit-sharing plan, scheme, or conspiracy.

B & P Code 24200.6.
Drug Paraphernalia

The Department may revoke or suspend any license if the licensee or the agent or  employee of the licensee is deemed to have knowledge that the item or items used to plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, pack, repack, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled substance, if the Department or any other state or local law enforcement agency notifies the licensee in writing that the items, individually or in combination, are commonly sold or marketed for that purpose.

H & S Code 11364.7.
Trafficking in Drug Paraphernalia

  1. (1) Any person who delivers, furnishes, or transfers, possesses with intent to deliver, furnish, or transfer, or manufactures with the intent to deliver, furnish, or transfer, drug paraphernalia, knowing, or under circumstances where one reasonably should know, that it will be used to plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, pack, repack, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled substance, except as provided in subdivision (b), in violation of this division, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
  2. Except as authorized by law, any person who manufactures with intent to deliver, furnish, or transfer drug paraphernalia knowing, or under circumstances where one reasonably should know, that it will be used to plant, propagate, cultivate, grow, harvest, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, process, prepare, test, analyze, pack, repack, store, contain, conceal, inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise introduce into the human body cocaine, cocaine base, heroin, phencyclidine, or methamphetamine in violation of this division shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or in the state prison.
  3. Any person, 18 years of age or over, who violates subdivision (a) by delivering, furnishing, or transferring drug paraphernalia to a person under 18 years of age who is at least three years his or her junior, or who, upon the grounds of a public or private elementary, vocational, junior high, or high school, possesses a hypodermic needle, as defined in paragraph (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 11014.5, with the intent to deliver, furnish, or transfer the hypodermic needle, knowing, or under circumstances where one reasonably should know, that it will be used by a person under 18 years of age to inject into the human body a controlled substance, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that imprisonment and fine.
  4. The violation, or the causing or the permitting of a violation, of subdivision (a), (b), or (c) by a holder of a business or liquor license issued by a city, county, or city and county, or by the State of California, and in the course of the licensee’s business shall be grounds for the revocation of that license.
  5. All drug paraphernalia defined in Section 11014.5 is subject to forfeiture and may be seized by any peace officer pursuant to Section 11471.

H & S Code 11364.5.
Drug Paraphernalia

  1. As used in this section, “drug paraphernalia” means all equipment and materials of any kind which are intended for use or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled “Drug paraphernalia” includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
    1.  Kits 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.
    2. Kits intended for use or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, or preparing controlled substances.
    3. Isomerization devices intended for use or designed for use in increasing the potency of any species of plant which is a controlled substance.
    4.  Testing equipment intended for use or designed for use in identifying, or in analyzing the strength, effectiveness or purity of controlled substances.
    5.  Scales and balances intended for use or designed for use in weighing or measuring controlled substances.
    6.  Diluents and adulterants, such as quinine hydrochloride, mannitol, mannite, dextrose, and lactose, intended for use or designed for use in cutting controlled substances.
    7.  Separation gins and sifters intended for use or designed for use in removing twigs and seeds from, or in otherwise cleaning or refining, marijuana.
    8.  Blenders, bowls, containers, spoons, and mixing devices intended for use or designed for use in compounding controlled substances.
    9.  Capsules, balloons, envelopes, and other containers intended for use or designed for use in packaging small quantities of controlled substances.
    10.  Containers and other objects intended for use or designed for use in storing or concealing controlled substances.
    11.  Hypodermic syringes, needles, and other objects intended for use or designed for use in parenterally injecting controlled substances into the human body.
    12.  Objects 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 the following:
      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. Carburetion tubes and devices.
      4. Smoking and carburetion masks.
      5. Roach clips, meaning 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.
      6. Miniature cocaine spoons, and cocaine vials.
      7. Chamber pipes.
      8. Carburetor pipes.
      9. Electric pipes.
      10. Air-driven pipes.
      11. Chillums.
      12. Bongs.
      13. Ice pipes or chillers.