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Cross Reference: As to possession or control of a controlled substance, Section 210.400; As to disposal of medical marijuana, Section 210.406; As to unlawful use of drug paraphernalia, Section 210.410.
[Ord. No. 03202023, 3-20-2023]
A. 
Incorporation of Chapter 640. The definitions set forth in Section 640.010 are incorporated herein as if more fully and completely set forth.
B. 
Additional Definitions. As used in this Article, the following terms shall mean:
ADMINISTER
To apply a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, directly to the body of a patient or research subject by:
1. 
A practitioner (or, in his/her presence, by his/her authorized agent); or
2. 
The patient or research subject at the direction and in the presence of the practitioner.
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
A drug, substance, or immediate precursor in Schedules I through V listed in Chapter 195, RSMo.
DELIVER or DELIVERY
The actual, constructive, or attempted transfer from one (1) person to another of drug paraphernalia or of a controlled substance, or an imitation controlled substance, whether or not there is an agency relationship, and includes a sale.
DEPRESSANT OR STIMULANT SUBSTANCE
1. 
A drug containing any quantity of barbituric acid or any of the salts of barbituric acid or any derivative of barbituric acid which has been designated by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services as habit forming under 21 U.S.C. § 352(d);
2. 
A drug containing any quantity of:
a. 
Amphetamine or any of its isomers;
b. 
Any salt of amphetamine or any salt of an isomer of amphetamine; or
c. 
Any substance the United States Attorney General, after investigation, has found to be, and by regulation designated as, habit forming because of its stimulant effect on the central nervous system;
3. 
Lysergic acid diethylamide; or
4. 
Any drug containing any quantity of a substance that the United States Attorney General, after investigation, has found to have, and by regulation designated as having, a potential for abuse because of its depressant or stimulant effect on the central nervous system or its hallucinogenic effect.
DISPENSE
To deliver a narcotic or controlled dangerous drug to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for such delivery. "Dispenser" means a practitioner who dispenses.
DISTRIBUTE
To deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance.
DRUG PARAPHERNALIA
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All equipment, products, and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use, in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance in violation of Sections 195.005 to 195.425, RSMo., but excluding marijuana accessories. It includes, but is not limited to:
a. 
Kits used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, or harvesting of any species of plant which is a controlled substance or from which a controlled substance can be derived;
b. 
Kits used, intended for use, or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, or preparing controlled substances or imitation controlled substances;
c. 
Isomerization devices used, intended for use, or designed for use in increasing the potency of any species of plant which is a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance;
d. 
Testing equipment used, intended for use, or designed for use in identifying, or in analyzing the strength, effectiveness or purity of controlled substances or imitation controlled substances;
e. 
Scales and balances used, intended for use, or designed for use in weighing or measuring controlled substances or imitation controlled substances;
f. 
Diluents and adulterants, such as quinine hydrochloride, mannitol, mannite, dextrose, and lactose, used, intended for use, or designed for use in cutting controlled substances or imitation controlled substances;
g. 
Blenders, bowls, containers, spoons, and mixing devices used, intended for use, or designed for use in compounding controlled substances or imitation controlled substances;
h. 
(Reserved)
i. 
Capsules, balloons, envelopes, and other containers used, intended for use, or designed for use in packaging small quantities of controlled substances or imitation controlled substances;
j. 
Containers and other objects used, intended for use, or designed for use in storing or concealing controlled substances or imitation controlled substances;
k. 
Hypodermic syringes, needles, and other objects used, intended for use, or designed for use in parenterally injecting controlled substances or imitation controlled substances into the human body;
l. 
Objects used, intended for use, or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing, cocaine, hashish, or hashish oil into the human body, except those designed or intended for use with marijuana, such as:
(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, except those for use with marijuana, that has become too small or too short to be held in the hand;
(6) 
Miniature cocaine spoons and cocaine vials;
(7) 
Chamber pipes;
(8) 
Carburetor pipes;
(9) 
Electric pipes;
(10) 
Air-driven pipes;
(11) 
Chillums;
(12) 
Bongs;
(13) 
Ice pipes or chillers;
(14) 
Substances used, intended for use, or designed for use in the manufacture of a controlled substance.
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In determining whether an object, product, substance, or material is drug paraphernalia, a court or other authority should consider, in addition to all other logically relevant factors, the following:
a. 
Statements by an owner or by anyone in control of the object concerning its use;
b. 
Prior convictions, if any, of an owner, or of anyone in control of the object, under any State or Federal law relating to any controlled substance or imitation controlled substance;
c. 
The proximity of the object, in time and space, to a direct violation of this Article or Chapter 579, RSMo.;
d. 
The proximity of the object to controlled substances or imitation controlled substances;
e. 
The existence of any residue of controlled substances or imitation controlled substances on the object;
f. 
Direct or circumstantial evidence of the intent of an owner, or of anyone in control of the object, to deliver it to persons whom he/she knows, or should reasonably know, intend to use the object to facilitate a violation of this Article or Chapter 579, RSMo.; the innocence of an owner, or of anyone in control of the object, as to a direct violation of this Article or Chapter 579, RSMo., shall not prevent a finding that the object is intended for use, or designed for use as drug paraphernalia;
g. 
Instructions, oral or written, provided with the object concerning its use;
h. 
Descriptive materials accompanying the object which explain or depict its use;
i. 
National or local advertising concerning its use;
j. 
The manner in which the object is displayed for sale;
k. 
Whether the owner or anyone in control of the object, is a legitimate supplier of like or related items to the community, such as a licensed distributor or dealer of tobacco products;
l. 
Direct or circumstantial evidence of the ratio of sales of the object to the total sales of the business enterprise;
m. 
The existence and scope of legitimate uses for the object in the community;
n. 
Expert testimony concerning its use;
o. 
The quantity, form or packaging of the product, substance or material in relation to the quantity, form or packaging associated with any legitimate use for the product, substance or material.
HALLUCINOGENIC SUBSTANCES
Including lysergic acid diethylamide, mescaline, psilocybin, and various types of methoxyamphetamines.
IMITATION CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
A substance that is not a controlled substance, which by dosage unit appearance (including color, shape, size, and markings), or by representations made, would lead a reasonable person to believe that the substance is a controlled substance. In determining whether the substance is an imitation controlled substance the court or authority concerned should consider, in addition to all other logically relevant factors, the following:
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Whether the substance was approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration for over-the-counter (non-prescription or non-legend) sales and was sold in the Federal Food and Drug Administration-approved package, with the Federal Food and Drug Administration-approved labeling information;
2. 
Statements made by an owner or by anyone else in control of the substance concerning the nature of the substance, or its use or effect;
3. 
Whether the substance is packaged in a manner normally used for illicit controlled substances;
4. 
Prior convictions, if any, of an owner, or anyone in control of the object, under State or Federal law related to controlled substances or fraud;
5. 
The proximity of the substances to controlled substances;
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Whether the consideration tendered in exchange for the non-controlled substance substantially exceeds the reasonable value of the substance considering the actual chemical composition of the substance and, where applicable, the price at which over-the-counter substances of like chemical composition sell. An imitation controlled substance does not include a non-controlled substance that was initially introduced in commerce prior to the initial introduction into commerce of the controlled substance that it is alleged to imitate. Furthermore, an imitation controlled substance does not include a placebo or registered investigational drug either of which was manufactured, distributed, possessed, or delivered in the ordinary course of professional practice or research;
7. 
Stimulants such as amphetamines and methamphetamines;
8. 
Barbiturates and other depressants such as amobarbital, secobarbital, pentobarbital, phenobarbital, methaqualone, phencyclidine, and diazepam.
LICENSE or LICENSED
Persons required to obtain annual registration as issued by the State Division of Health as provided by Section 195.030, RSMo.
MANUFACTURE
The production, preparation, propagation, compounding, or processing of drug paraphernalia or of a controlled substance, or an imitation controlled substance, either directly or by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container. This term does not include the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance by an individual for his/her own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging, or labeling of a narcotic or dangerous drug:
1. 
By a practitioner as an incident to his/her administering or dispensing of a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance in the course of his/her professional practice; or
2. 
By a practitioner or by his/her authorized agent under his/her supervision, for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale.
PERSON
An individual, corporation, government, or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, joint venture, association, or any other legal or commercial entity.
PHARMACIST
A licensed pharmacist as defined by the laws of this State, and where the context so requires, the owner of a store or other place of business where controlled substances are compounded or dispensed by a licensed pharmacist; but nothing in this Section shall be construed as conferring on a person who is not registered or licensed as a pharmacist any authority, right or privilege that is not granted to him/her by the pharmacy laws of this State.
PRACTITIONER
A physician, dentist, optometrist, podiatrist, veterinarian, scientific investigator, pharmacy, hospital, or other person licensed, registered or otherwise permitted by this State to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer or to use in teaching or chemical analysis, a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this State, or a pharmacy, hospital or other institution licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research.
PRESCRIPTION
A written order and, in cases of emergency, a telephone order, issued by a practitioner in good faith in the course of his/her professional practice to a pharmacist for a drug or a particular patient which specifies the date of its issue, the name and address of the patient (and, if such drug is prescribed for an animal, the species of such animal), the name and quantity of the drug prescribed, the directions for use of such drug, and the signature of the practitioner.
PRIMARY CAREGIVER
An individual twenty-one (21) years of age or older who has significant responsibility for managing the well-being of a qualifying patient and who is designated as such on the primary caregiver's application for an identification card under the provisions of Article XIV, Section 1, of the Missouri Constitution or in other written notification to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
PRODUCTION
Includes the manufacture, planting, cultivation, growing, or harvesting of drug paraphernalia or of a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance.
QUALIFYING PATIENT
A Missouri resident diagnosed with at least one (1) qualifying medical condition as defined by Article XIV, Section 1, of the Missouri Constitution.
WAREHOUSEMAN
A person who, in the usual course of business, stores drugs for others, is lawfully entitled to possess them and who has no control over the disposition of such drugs except for the purpose of such storage.
WHOLESALER
A person who supplies drug paraphernalia or controlled substances or imitation controlled substances that he himself has not produced or prepared, on official written orders, but not on prescriptions.
[Ord. No. 03202023, 3-20-2023]
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To the extent allowed by State law, marijuana for medicinal purposes may be cultivated in a residential structure, provided:
1. 
The structure is the primary residence of a primary caregiver or qualifying patient and the marijuana is grown solely for the use of the qualifying patient who resides there or who is under the care of the primary caretaker.
2. 
The residence has operating systems to assure that the emission of fumes or vapors connected with the cultivation is not allowed out of the building, or if the residence is in a multifamily building, that such fumes and vapors are not allowed into any other residence.
3. 
No manufacturing of marijuana products shall occur in any residence.
4. 
The cultivation must comply with the security and other requirements of State law and the rules of the Division of Health and Senior Services.
[Ord. No. 03202023, 3-20-2023]
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Persons may consume marijuana in their private residence, or in the residence of another with permission, but may not dispense or smoke marijuana in such a manner that the marijuana smoke or odor, exits the residence. If marijuana smoke or odor is capable of being detected by a person of ordinary senses (including, but not limited to, any Police Officer) beyond the property line of a single-family home or outside of the owned or leased premises of a duplex or multifamily unit there shall be a rebuttable presumption that this Section has been violated. In a multifamily or similar dwelling, medical marijuana may not be dispensed or consumed in any common area.
B. 
Violation of this provision shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00).
[Ord. No. 03202023, 3-20-2023]
A. 
No person under the age of twenty-one (21) years may possess, use, ingest, inhale, transport, deliver with or without consideration, marijuana or marijuana accessories, except that qualified patients under the age of twenty-one (21) years may possess medical marijuana or paraphernalia to the extent allowed by law.
1. 
If the violation of this Section involves three (3) ounces of marijuana or less, the penalty shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00).
B. 
Illegal Growing:
1. 
Possessing, transporting, planting, cultivating, harvesting, drying, processing, or manufacturing more than six (6) flowering marijuana plants, six (6) non-flowering marijuana plants [over fourteen (14) inches tall], and six (6) clones [plants under fourteen (14) inches tall]; or
2. 
Possessing, transporting, planting, cultivating, harvesting, drying, processing, or manufacturing marijuana plants without being registered with the Department of Health and Senior Services for the cultivation of marijuana plants; or
3. 
Failing to keep in excess of three (3) ounces of such plants in a locked space not visible by normal, unaided vision from a public place; or
C. 
Growing or possessing such plants by a person under the age of twenty-one (21) years.
D. 
Sale to Persons Under Twenty-One (21). No person shall deliver to, transfer to, or sell to a person twenty-one (21) years of age or older marijuana or marijuana paraphernalia.
E. 
Penalties. Subject to the limitations of this Section, a person who possesses not more than twice the amount of marijuana allowed pursuant to this Subsection, produces not more than twice the amount of marijuana allowed pursuant to this Subsection, delivers without receiving any consideration or remuneration to a person who is at least twenty-one (21) years of age not more than twice the amount of marijuana allowed by this Subsection, or possesses with intent to deliver not more than twice the amount of marijuana allowed by this Subsection:
1. 
A first violation is subject to an ordinance violation punishable by a fine not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) and forfeiture of the marijuana;
2. 
For a second violation and subsequent violations, is subject to an ordinance violation punishable by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) and forfeiture of the marijuana;
3. 
A person under twenty-one (21) years of age is subject to a fine not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00). Any such person shall be provided the option of attending up to eight (8) hours of drug education or counseling in lieu of the fine; and
4. 
In lieu of payment, penalties under this Subsection may be satisfied by the performance of community service. The rate of pay-down associated with said service option will be greater than fifteen dollars ($15.00) or the minimum wage in effect at the time of judgment.
[Ord. No. 03202023, 3-20-2023]
It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke marijuana within a motor vehicle, train, aircraft, motorboat, or another motorized form of transport while it is being operated.
[Ord. No. 03202023, 3-20-2023]
It shall be unlawful for a person to be in possession or consumption of marijuana or possession of marijuana accessories on the grounds of a public or private preschool, elementary or secondary school, institution of higher education, in a school bus, or on the grounds of any correctional facility.
[Ord. No. 03202023, 3-20-2023]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke marijuana in a location where smoking tobacco is prohibited.
B. 
It shall be unlawfull for any person to consume marijuana in a public place, other than in an area authorized by the City for that purpose is prohibited.
C. 
Restaurants serving food that contains marijuana must register with the City and provide notice on all public entrances and on all menus that certain food contains marijuana.
D. 
Violation of this Section shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the first offense and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) as well as confiscation of the marijuana.