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US: City bans sale of drug items
TwinCities Pioneer Press
Wednesday 03 May 2006 It's now illegal in Hastings to sell or purchase bongs — or hashish heads, water pipes, roach clips, cocaine spoons, chillums, and a whole host of items associated with drug culture. The City Council on Monday approved an ordinance prohibiting the "sale or delivery of drug paraphernalia," modeled after suggested language from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and laws in effect in a few larger cities in the Twin Cities. Paraphernalia, according to the ordinance, includes any equipment used to grow, harvest, manufacture, conceal, refine, test, inject, ingest or inhale narcotics. City Council Member Anthony Alongi pursued adding the new law to Hastings' statutes after a gas station near Hastings High School refused to stop selling bongs, or water pipes commonly associated with smoking marijuana. A manager was later arrested and convicted of dealing methamphetamines from the store, which has reportedly stopped selling bongs. To prove that questionable equipment is truly drug-related, authorities can use the seller's or buyer's criminal history record, among other clues. Violating the new law would be a misdemeanor offense, according to a memo from City Attorney Shawn M. Moynihan, who prepared the ordinance.
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