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S.D. Codified Laws § 22-42A-1

Drug paraphernalia defined--Exclusion

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Goebel v. Warner Transportation (2000)

Most recently applied in State v. Wilkinson (July 2007)

Source: SL 1983, ch 180, § 1; SL 1984, ch 172, § 1; SL 2023, ch 73, § 1.

How often courts cite this section

2000200710
citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

For purposes of this chapter, the term, drug paraphernalia, means any equipment, product, or material that is primarily used, intended for use, or designed for use by the person in possession of it, 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 any controlled substance or marijuana in violation of the provisions of this chapter. Drug paraphernalia includes:

(1) Kits used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, or harvesting of any species of plant that is a controlled substance or marijuana or from which a controlled substance can be derived;

(2) Kits used, intended for use, or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, or preparing controlled substances;

(3) Isomerization devices used, intended for use, or designed for use in increasing the potency of marijuana or any species of plant that is a controlled substance;

(4) Scales and balances used, intended for use, or designed for use in weighing or measuring controlled substances;

(5) Diluents and adulterants, including quinine hydrochloride, mannitol, mannite, dextrose, and lactose, used, intended for use, or designed for use in cutting controlled substances;

(6) 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;

(7) Capsules, balloons, envelopes, and other containers used, intended for use, or designed for use in packaging small quantities of controlled substances or marijuana;

(8) Containers and other objects used, intended for use, or designed for use in storing or concealing controlled substances or marijuana;

(9) Hypodermic syringes, needles, and other objects used, intended for use, or designed for use in parenterally injecting controlled substances into the human body; and

(10) 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, including:

(a) Metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish heads, or punctured metal bowls;

(b) Water pipes;

(c) Carburetion tubes and devices;

(d) Smoking and carburetion masks;

(e) 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;

(f) Miniature cocaine spoons and cocaine vials;

(g) Chamber pipes;

(h) Carburetor pipes;

(i) Electric pipes;

(j) Air-driven pipes;

(k) Chillums;

(l) Bongs; and

(m) Ice pipes or chillers.

For purposes of this chapter, drug paraphernalia does not include a product that detects the presence of fentanyl or a fentanyl analog in a controlled substance.

Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.