0001| HOUSE BILL 210 | 0002| 43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997 | 0003| INTRODUCED BY | 0004| RITA G. GETTY | 0005| | 0006| | 0007| | 0008| | 0009| | 0010| AN ACT | 0011| RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES; AMENDING THE CONTROLLED | 0012| SUBSTANCES ACT TO PROVIDE FOR DRUG-FREE RESIDENTIAL ZONES; | 0013| ENHANCING CRIMINAL PENALTIES. | 0014| | 0015| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO: | 0016| Section 1. Section 30-31-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1972, | 0017| Chapter 84, Section 2, as amended) is amended to read: | 0018| "30-31-2. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Controlled | 0019| Substances Act: | 0020| A. "administer" means the direct application of a | 0021| controlled substance by any means to the body of a patient or | 0022| research subject by a practitioner or his agent; | 0023| B. "agent" includes an authorized person who acts | 0024| on behalf of a manufacturer, distributor or dispenser. It does | 0025| not include a common or contract carrier, public warehouseman | 0001| or employee of the carrier or warehouseman; | 0002| C. "board" means the board of pharmacy; | 0003| D. "bureau" means the bureau of narcotics and | 0004| dangerous drugs, United States department of justice, or its | 0005| successor agency; | 0006| E. "controlled substance" means a drug or substance | 0007| listed in Schedules I through V of the Controlled Substances | 0008| Act or regulations adopted thereto; | 0009| F. "counterfeit substance" means a controlled | 0010| substance that bears the unauthorized trademark, trade name, | 0011| imprint, number, device or other identifying mark or likeness | 0012| of a manufacturer, distributor or dispenser other than the | 0013| person who in fact manufactured, distributed or dispensed the | 0014| controlled substance; | 0015| G. "deliver" means the actual, constructive or | 0016| attempted transfer from one person to another of a controlled | 0017| substance or controlled substance analog, whether or not there | 0018| is an agency relationship; | 0019| H. "dispense" means to deliver a controlled | 0020| substance to an ultimate user or research subject pursuant to | 0021| the lawful order of a practitioner, including the | 0022| administering, prescribing, packaging, labeling or compounding | 0023| necessary to prepare the controlled substance for that | 0024| delivery; | 0025| I. "dispenser" means a practitioner who dispenses | 0001| and includes hospitals, pharmacies and clinics where controlled | 0002| substances are dispensed; | 0003| J. "distribute" means to deliver other than by | 0004| administering or dispensing a controlled substance or | 0005| controlled substance analog; | 0006| K. "drug" or "substance" means substances | 0007| recognized as drugs in the official United States | 0008| pharmacopoeia, official homeopathic pharmacopoeia of the United | 0009| States or official national formulary or any respective | 0010| supplement to [these] those publications. It does not | 0011| include devices or their components, parts or accessories; | 0012| L. "hashish" means the resin extracted from any | 0013| part of marijuana, whether growing or not, and every compound, | 0014| manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of such | 0015| resins; | 0016| M. "manufacture" means the production, preparation, | 0017| compounding, conversion or processing of a controlled substance | 0018| or controlled substance analog by extraction from substances of | 0019| natural origin or independently by means of chemical synthesis | 0020| or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis and | 0021| includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or | 0022| labeling or relabeling of its container, except that this term | 0023| does not include the preparation or compounding of a controlled | 0024| substance: | 0025| (1) by a practitioner as an incident to his | 0001| administering or dispensing of a controlled substance in the | 0002| course of his professional practice; or | 0003| (2) by a practitioner, or by his agent under | 0004| his supervision, for the purpose of or as an incident to | 0005| research, teaching or chemical analysis and not for sale; | 0006| N. "marijuana" means all parts of the plant | 0007| Cannabis, including any and all varieties, species and | 0008| subspecies of the genus Cannabis, whether growing or not, the | 0009| seeds thereof and every compound, manufacture, salt, | 0010| derivative, mixture or preparation of the plant or its seeds. | 0011| It does not include the mature stalks of the plant, hashish, | 0012| tetrahydrocannabinols extracted or isolated from marijuana, | 0013| fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds | 0014| of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, deriva- | 0015| | 0016| tive, mixture or preparation of the mature stalks, fiber, oil | 0017| or cake, or the sterilized seed of the plant that is incapable | 0018| of germination; | 0019| O. "narcotic drug" means any of the following, | 0020| whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from | 0021| substances of vegetable origin or independently by means of | 0022| chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction and | 0023| chemical synthesis: | 0024| (1) opium and opiate and any salt, compound, | 0025| derivative or preparation of opium or opiate; | 0001| (2) any salt, compound, isomer, derivative or | 0002| preparation that is a chemical equivalent of any of the | 0003| substances referred to in Paragraph (1) of this subsection, | 0004| except the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium; | 0005| (3) opium poppy and poppy straw, including all | 0006| parts of the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L. except | 0007| its seeds; or | 0008| (4) coca leaves and any salt, compound, | 0009| derivative or preparation of coca leaves, any salt, compound, | 0010| isomer, derivative or preparation that is a chemical equivalent | 0011| of any of these substances except decocainized coca leaves or | 0012| extractions of coca leaves that do not contain cocaine or | 0013| [ecgonine] ecgonine; | 0014| P. "opiate" means any substance having an | 0015| addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to | 0016| morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug having | 0017| addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability. Opiate | 0018| does not include, unless specifically designated as controlled | 0019| under Section 30-31-5 NMSA 1978, the dextrorotatory isomer of | 0020| 3-methoxy-n-methylmorphinan and its salts (dextromethorphan). | 0021| "Opiate" does include its racemic and levorotatory forms; | 0022| Q. "person" includes a partnership, corporation, | 0023| association, institution, political subdivision, government | 0024| agency or other legal entity; | 0025| R. "practitioner" means a physician, dentist, | 0001| veterinarian or other person licensed to prescribe and | 0002| administer drugs that are subject to the Controlled Substances | 0003| Act; | 0004| S. "prescription" means an order given individually | 0005| for the person for whom is prescribed a controlled substance, | 0006| either directly from the prescriber to the pharmacist or | 0007| indirectly by means of a written order signed by the | 0008| prescriber, [and] in accordance with the Controlled | 0009| Substances Act or regulations adopted thereto; | 0010| T. "scientific investigator" means a person | 0011| registered to conduct research with controlled substances in | 0012| the course of his professional practice or research and | 0013| includes analytical laboratories; | 0014| U. "ultimate user" means a person who lawfully | 0015| possesses a controlled substance for his own use or for the use | 0016| of a member of his household or for administering to an animal | 0017| under the care, custody and control of the person or by a | 0018| member of his household; | 0019| V. "drug paraphernalia" means all equipment, | 0020| products and materials of any kind that are used, intended for | 0021| use or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, | 0022| growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, | 0023| producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, | 0024| packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, | 0025| injecting, ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing into | 0001| the human body a controlled substance or controlled substance | 0002| analog in violation of the Controlled Substances Act. It | 0003| includes [but is not limited to]: | 0004| (1) kits used, intended for use or designed | 0005| for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing or | 0006| harvesting any species of plant that is a controlled substance | 0007| or controlled substance analog or from which a controlled | 0008| substance can be derived; | 0009| (2) kits used, intended for use or designed | 0010| for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, | 0011| processing or preparing controlled substances or controlled | 0012| substance analogs; | 0013| (3) isomerization devices used, intended for | 0014| use or designed for use in increasing the potency of any | 0015| species of plant that is a controlled substance; | 0016| (4) testing equipment used, intended for use | 0017| or designed for use in identifying or in analyzing the | 0018| strength, effectiveness or purity of controlled substances or | 0019| controlled substance analogs; | 0020| (5) scales or balances used, intended for use | 0021| or designed for use in weighing or measuring controlled | 0022| substances or controlled substance analogs; | 0023| (6) diluents and adulterants, such as quinine | 0024| hydrochloride, mannitol, mannite dextrose and lactose, used, | 0025| intended for use or designed for use in cutting controlled | 0001| substances or controlled substance analogs; | 0002| (7) separation gins and sifters used, intended | 0003| for use or designed for use in removing twigs and seeds from or | 0004| in otherwise cleaning and refining marijuana; | 0005| (8) blenders, bowls, containers, spoons and | 0006| mixing devices used, intended for use or designed for use in | 0007| compounding controlled substances or controlled substance | 0008| analogs; | 0009| (9) capsules, balloons, envelopes and other | 0010| containers used, intended for use or designed for use in | 0011| packaging small quantities of controlled substances or | 0012| controlled substance analogs; | 0013| (10) containers and other objects used, | 0014| intended for use or designed for use in storing or concealing | 0015| controlled substances or controlled substance analogs; | 0016| (11) hypodermic syringes, needles and other | 0017| objects used, intended for use or designed for use in | 0018| parenterally injecting controlled substances or controlled | 0019| substance analogs into the human body; | 0020| (12) objects used, intended for use or | 0021| designed for use in ingesting, inhaling or otherwise | 0022| introducing marijuana, cocaine, hashish or hashish oil into the | 0023| human body, such as: | 0024| (a) metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, | 0025| stone, plastic or ceramic pipes, with or without screens, | 0001| permanent screens, hashish heads or punctured metal bowls; | 0002| (b) water pipes; | 0003| (c) carburetion tubes and devices; | 0004| (d) smoking and carburetion masks; | 0005| (e) roach clips, meaning objects used to | 0006| hold burning material, such as a marijuana cigarette, that has | 0007| become too small to hold in the hand; | 0008| (f) miniature cocaine spoons and cocaine | 0009| vials; | 0010| (g) chamber pipes; | 0011| (h) carburetor pipes; | 0012| (i) electric pipes; | 0013| (j) air-driven pipes; | 0014| (k) chilams; | 0015| (l) bongs; or | 0016| (m) ice pipes or chillers; and | 0017| (13) in determining whether an object is drug | 0018| paraphernalia, a court or other authority should consider, in | 0019| addition to all other logically relevant factors, the | 0020| following: | 0021| (a) statements by the owner or by anyone | 0022| in control of the object concerning its use; | 0023| (b) the proximity of the object, in time | 0024| and space, to a direct violation of the Controlled Substances | 0025| Act or any other law relating to controlled substances or | 0001| controlled substance analogs; | 0002| (c) the proximity of the object to | 0003| controlled substances or controlled substance analogs; | 0004| (d) the existence of any residue of a | 0005| controlled substance or controlled substance analog on the | 0006| object; | 0007| (e) instructions, written or oral, | 0008| provided with the object concerning its use; | 0009| (f) descriptive materials accompanying | 0010| the object that explain or depict its use; | 0011| (g) the manner in which the object is | 0012| displayed for sale; and | 0013| (h) expert testimony concerning its use; | 0014| W. "controlled substance analog" means a substance | 0015| other than a controlled substance that has a chemical structure | 0016| substantially similar to that of a controlled substance in | 0017| Schedule I, II, III, IV or V or that was specifically designed | 0018| to produce effects substantially similar to that of controlled | 0019| substances in Schedule I, II, III, IV or V. Examples of | 0020| chemical classes in which controlled substance analogs are | 0021| found include [but are not limited to] the following: | 0022| (1) phenethylamines; | 0023| (2) N-substituted piperidines; | 0024| (3) morphinans; | 0025| (4) [ecogonines] ecgonines; | 0001| (5) quinazolinones; | 0002| (6) substituted indoles; and | 0003| (7) arylcycloalkylamines. | 0004| Specifically excluded from the definition of "controlled | 0005| substance analog" are those substances that are generally | 0006| recognized as safe and effective within the meaning of the | 0007| Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act or have been manufactured, | 0008| distributed or possessed in conformance with the provisions of | 0009| an approved new drug application or an exemption for | 0010| investigational use within the meaning of Section 505 of the | 0011| Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; | 0012| X. "human consumption" includes application, | 0013| injection, inhalation, ingestion or any other manner of | 0014| introduction whatsoever; [and] | 0015| Y. "drug-free school zone" means any public or | 0016| private school or property [that is] used for [public] | 0017| school purposes and the area within one thousand feet of the | 0018| school property line [but it does not mean any post-secondary | 0019| school]; and | 0020| Z. "drug-free residential zone" means any property | 0021| residentially zoned or used as a residence and the area within | 0022| one thousand feet of the property line of the property." | 0023| Section 2. Section 30-31-20 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1972, | 0024| Chapter 84, Section 20, as amended) is amended to read: | 0025| "30-31-20. TRAFFICKING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES--VIOLATION.- | 0001| - | 0002| A. As used in the Controlled Substances Act, | 0003| "traffic" means the: | 0004| (1) manufacture of any controlled substance | 0005| enumerated in Schedules I through V or any controlled substance | 0006| analog as defined in Subsection W of Section 30-31-2 NMSA 1978; | 0007| (2) distribution, sale, barter or giving away | 0008| of any controlled substance enumerated in Schedule I or II that | 0009| is a narcotic drug or a controlled substance analog of a | 0010| controlled substance enumerated in Schedule I or II that is a | 0011| narcotic drug; or | 0012| (3) possession with intent to distribute any | 0013| controlled substance enumerated in Schedule I or II that is a | 0014| narcotic drug or controlled substance analog of a controlled | 0015| substance enumerated in Schedule I or II that is a narcotic | 0016| drug. | 0017| B. Except as authorized by the Controlled | 0018| Substances Act, it is unlawful for any person to intentionally | 0019| traffic. Any person who violates this subsection is: | 0020| (1) for the first offense, guilty of a second | 0021| degree felony and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions | 0022| of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978; and | 0023| (2) for the second and subsequent offenses, | 0024| guilty of a first degree felony and shall be sentenced pursuant | 0025| to the provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978. | 0001| C. Any person who knowingly violates Paragraph (1) | 0002| of Subsection B of this section within a drug-free school zone | 0003| [excluding private property residentially zoned or used | 0004| primarily as a residence] or a drug-free residential zone is | 0005| guilty of a first degree felony and shall be sentenced pursuant | 0006| to the provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978." | 0007| Section 3. Section 30-31-22 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1972, | 0008| Chapter 84, Section 22, as amended) is amended to read: | 0009| "30-31-22. CONTROLLED OR COUNTERFEIT SUBSTANCES-- | 0010| DISTRIBUTION PROHIBITED.-- | 0011| A. Except as authorized by the Controlled | 0012| Substances Act, it is unlawful for any person to intentionally | 0013| distribute or possess with intent to distribute a controlled | 0014| substance or a controlled substance analog except a substance | 0015| enumerated in Schedule I or II that is a narcotic drug or a | 0016| controlled substance analog of a controlled substance | 0017| enumerated in Schedule I or II that is a narcotic drug. Any | 0018| person who violates this subsection with respect to: | 0019| (1) marijuana is: | 0020| (a) except as provided in Subparagraph | 0021| (c) of this paragraph, for the first offense, guilty of a | 0022| fourth degree felony and shall be sentenced pursuant to the | 0023| provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978; | 0024| (b) for the second and subsequent | 0025| offenses, guilty of a third degree felony and shall be | 0001| sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA | 0002| 1978; | 0003| (c) for the first offense, if more than | 0004| one hundred pounds is possessed with intent to distribute or | 0005| distributed or both, guilty of a third degree felony and shall | 0006| be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-18-15 | 0007| NMSA 1978; and | 0008| (d) for the second and subsequent | 0009| offenses, if more than one hundred pounds is possessed with | 0010| intent to distribute or distributed or both, guilty of a second | 0011| degree felony and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions | 0012| of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978; | 0013| (2) any other controlled substance enumerated in | 0014| Schedule I, II, III or IV or a controlled substance analog of a | 0015| controlled substance enumerated in Schedule I, II, III or IV | 0016| except a substance enumerated in Schedule I or II that is a | 0017| narcotic drug or a controlled substance analog of a controlled | 0018| substance enumerated in Schedule I or II that is a narcotic | 0019| drug, is: | 0020| (a) for the first offense, guilty of a third | 0021| degree felony and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions | 0022| of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978; and | 0023| (b) for the second and subsequent offenses, | 0024| guilty of a second degree felony and shall be sentenced | 0025| pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978; and | 0001| (3) a controlled substance enumerated in | 0002| Schedule V or a controlled substance analog of a controlled | 0003| substance enumerated in Schedule V is guilty of a misdemeanor | 0004| and shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred | 0005| dollars ($100) or more than five hundred dollars ($500) or by | 0006| imprisonment for a definite term not less than one hundred | 0007| eighty days but less than one year, or both. | 0008| B. Except as authorized by the Controlled Substances | 0009| Act, it is unlawful for any person to intentionally create or | 0010| deliver, or possess with intent to deliver, a counterfeit | 0011| substance. Any person who violates this subsection with | 0012| respect to: | 0013| (1) a counterfeit substance enumerated in | 0014| Schedule I, II, III or IV is guilty of a fourth degree felony | 0015| and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section | 0016| 31-18-15 NMSA 1978; and | 0017| (2) a counterfeit substance enumerated in | 0018| Schedule V is guilty of a petty misdemeanor and shall be | 0019| punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100) | 0020| or by imprisonment for a definite term not to exceed six | 0021| months, or both. | 0022| C. Any person who knowingly violates Subsection A or | 0023| B of this section while within a drug-free school zone | 0024| [excluding private property residentially zoned or used | 0025| primarily as a residence] or a drug-free residential zone | 0001| with respect to: | 0002| (1) marijuana is: | 0003| (a) except as provided in Subparagraph (c) | 0004| of this paragraph, for the first offense, guilty of a third | 0005| degree felony and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions | 0006| of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978; | 0007| (b) for the second and subsequent offenses, | 0008| guilty of a second degree felony and shall be sentenced | 0009| pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978; | 0010| (c) for the first offense, if more than one | 0011| hundred pounds is possessed with intent to distribute or | 0012| distributed or both, guilty of a second degree felony and shall | 0013| be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-18-15 | 0014| NMSA 1978; and | 0015| (d) for the second and subsequent offenses, | 0016| if more than one hundred pounds is possessed with intent to | 0017| distribute or distributed or both, guilty of a first degree | 0018| felony and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of | 0019| Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978; | 0020| (2) any other controlled substance enumerated in | 0021| Schedule I, II, III or IV or a controlled substance analog of a | 0022| controlled substance enumerated in Schedule I, II, III or IV | 0023| except a substance enumerated in Schedule I or II that is a | 0024| narcotic drug or a controlled substance analog of a controlled | 0025| substance [emumerated] enumerated in Schedule I or II that | 0001| is a narcotic drug, is: | 0002| (a) for the first offense, guilty of a | 0003| second degree felony and shall be sentenced pursuant to the | 0004| provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978; and | 0005| (b) for the second and subsequent offenses, | 0006| guilty of a first degree felony and shall be sentenced pursuant | 0007| to the provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978; | 0008| (3) a controlled substance enumerated in | 0009| Schedule V or a controlled substance analog of a controlled | 0010| substance enumerated in Schedule V is guilty of a fourth degree | 0011| felony and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of | 0012| Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978; and | 0013| (4) the intentional creation, delivery or | 0014| possession with the intent to deliver: | 0015| (a) a counterfeit substance enumerated in | 0016| Schedule I, II, III or IV is guilty of a third degree felony | 0017| and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section | 0018| 31-18-15 NMSA 1978; and | 0019| (b) a counterfeit substance enumerated in | 0020| Schedule V is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by | 0021| a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more | 0022| than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment for a | 0023| definite term not less than one hundred eighty days but less | 0024| than one year, or both. | 0025| D. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A | 0001| of this section, distribution of a small amount of marijuana | 0002| for no remuneration shall be treated as provided in Paragraph | 0003| (3) of Subsection B of Section 30-31-23 NMSA 1978." | 0004|  |