<?xml version="1.0"?>
<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71055</law_id><section_number>18.2-265.3</section_number><catch_line>Penalties for sale, etc., of drug paraphernalia</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-265.1</reference><reference>19.2-392.12:1</reference><reference>32.1-45.4</reference><reference>4.1-606</reference><reference>54.1-3466</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="7">Crimes Involving Health and Safety</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1.1">Drug Paraphernalia</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Any person who sells or possesses with <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to sell drug paraphernalia, knowing, or under circumstances where one reasonably should know, that it is either designed for use or intended by such person for use to illegally 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 marijuana or a controlled substance, shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>. <a id="paragraph-256188" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-265.3/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Any person eighteen years of age or older who violates subsection A hereof by selling drug paraphernalia to a <span class="dictionary">minor</span> who is at least three years junior to the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> in age shall be guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. <a id="paragraph-256189" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-265.3/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Any person eighteen years of age or older who distributes drug paraphernalia to a <span class="dictionary">minor</span> shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>. <a id="paragraph-256190" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-265.3/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1981, c. 598; 1983, c. 535; 1984, c. 31.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
