California Imitation Controlled Substances Act

The act governs imitation controlled substances — products that are not themselves controlled substances but are presented or fashioned to pass as them — and makes it an offense to manufacture, distribute, possess with intent to distribute, or advertise them, with a separate offense for sale to a minor. Alongside those prohibitions it supplies the governing definitions, specifies the defenses available to a person charged, and places responsibility for administering the law with a designated enforcement authority. Its principal civil mechanisms are forfeiture of property connected to violations, including a summary procedure for certain items, together with injunctive relief, inspection and administrative warrant authority, and immunity for personnel acting under the act.

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