The old ‘Christmas bong ornament’ trick
Posted on November 20th, 2009 by Allie
There are many Christmas traditions to bring a little holiday cheer but I am not sure this ones i ready to catch on just yet. U.S. Customs officials at the Los Angeles Harbor, got a big surprise, on cargo coming in China described on the manifest as “Christmas ornaments”. But when authorities opened up one of the 860 boxes of cargo, they found 316,000 glass bongs and pipes, worth about $2.6 million. No arrests have been made yet, but an investigation is is still pending, and unfortunately in the tradition of Scrooge, all the items are set to be destroyed.
Title 21 United States Code (USC)
Controlled Substances Act
Section 863. Drug Paraphernalia
(a) In general
It is unlawful for any person –
(1) to sell or offer for sale drug paraphernalia;
(2) to use the mails or any other facility of interstate commerce to transport drug paraphernalia; or
(3) to import or export drug paraphernalia.
(b) Penalties
Anyone convicted of an offense under subsection (a) of this section shall be imprisoned for not more than three years and fined under Title 18.
(c) Seizure and forfeiture
Any drug paraphernalia involved in any violation of subsection (a) of this section shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture upon the conviction of a person for such violation. Any such paraphernalia shall be delivered to the Administrator of General Services, General Services Administration, who may order such paraphernalia destroyed or may authorize its use for law enforcement or educational purposes by Federal, State, or local authorities.
(d) “Drug Paraphernalia” defined
The term “drug paraphernalia” means any equipment, product, or material of any kind which is primarily intended or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, concealing, producing, processing, preparing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance, possession of which is unlawful under this subchapter. It includes items primarily intended or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing marijuana,\1\ cocaine, hashish, hashish oil, PCP, methamphetamine, or amphetamines into the human body, such as –
\1\ So in original. Probably should be “marihuana,”.
(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 marihuana cigarette, that has become too small or too short to be held in the hand;
(6) miniature spoons with level capacities of one-tenth cubic centimeter or less;
(7) chamber pipes;
(8) carburetor pipes;
(9) electric pipes;
(10) air-driven pipes;
(11) chillums;
(12) bongs;
(13) ice pipes or chillers;
(14) wired cigarette papers; or
(15) cocaine freebase kits.
(e) Matters considered in determination of what constitutes drug paraphernalia
In determining whether an item constitutes drug paraphernalia, in addition to all other logically relevant factors, the following may be considered:
(1) instructions, oral or written, provided with the item concerning its use;
(2) descriptive materials accompanying the item which explain or depict its use;
(3) national and local advertising concerning its use;
(4) the manner in which the item is displayed for sale;
(5) whether the owner, or anyone in control of the item, is a legitimate supplier of like or related items to the community, such as a licensed distributor or dealer of tobacco products;
(6) direct or circumstantial evidence of the ratio of sales of the item(s) to the total sales of the business enterprise;
(7) the existence and scope of legitimate uses of the item in the community; and
(8) expert testimony concerning its use.
(f) Exemptions
This section shall not apply to –
(1) any person authorized by local, State, or Federal law to manufacture, possess, or distribute such items; or
(2) any item that, in the normal lawful course of business, is imported, exported, transported, or sold through the mail or by any other means, and traditionally intended for use with tobacco products, including any pipe, paper, or accessory.
Wow im glad you took the time to copy and paste that.. so im gonna take the time to tell you to stop infringing on the american peoples rights. I am sick and tired of hearing of fbi agents dealing cocaine under the table but when the working force wants something, anything in there life to make working a little easier, you guys call us criminals. Alcohol is a billion times more deadly than any marijuana you’ll ever smoke. Maybe you should try it before you knock it. Maybe you’ll learn life is more than just busying your lives trying to make our lives (the working force that make you guys rich) harder. Basically.. summing this all up.. Mind your own business and stop telling us what we can and cant do with the body that does not belong to you. It belongs to us and therefore we should be able to do whatever we want with it. That is definately not for you to decide. You guys are just like slave drivers from the colonial days.. remember that? The only difference is now you pay us a tiny bit and allow us to eat more than just porridge. And now to prove that it’s all just big business.. Look at how california’s finding ways to tax it and therefore make it legal. It’s all big business and if you don’t believe me you are so damned arrogant you can’t even tell.