can you bring bongs back to qld

[taxman]

hey just wondering if anybody knows if you can bring a bong back from victoria on a airplane to queensland????

[Indycar]

It's something i wouldn't try. Maybe tee up a friend/rellie you feel safe with 'n organize to get them to recieve it for you at their address, under a false name. Then pick it up from there.

 

But going thru Airport scanners etc. Isn't something i'd wanna try out.

 

[ettin]

more than likely you'd get away with it, but dont do it

[torture]

you can do it... without any worries... as long as its clean and never been used

[linbaba]

you can do it... without any worries... as long as its clean and never been used

 

this used to be the case, however as of last year they've changed the law in Qld so that bongs are illegal even if they've never been used.

 

http://www.health.qld.gov.au/atods/documents/32836.pdf

 

ON 5 JULY 2007 NEW LAWS PROHIBITING THE SALE AND DISPLAY OF DRUG

IMPLEMENTS KNOWN AS ICE PIPES & BONGS COMMENCE IN QUEENSLAND.

The new laws apply to ice pipe and bong wholesalers and retailers.

Ice Pipes

An ‘ice pipe’ is a device capable of being used for administering an illicit drug by drawing smoke

or fumes as a result of heating or burning the drug. This definition is broad and includes a range

of illicit drug pipes made of glass and other materials.

Under the new laws, ice pipes and their components must not be sold, supplied or displayed

in or near a shop, including market stalls. The prohibition does not apply to tobacco pipes.

Bongs

A ‘bong’ means a device capable of being used for administering an illicit drug by drawing

smoke or fumes as a result of heating or burning the drug in or on the device, through water

or another liquid in the device.

Under the new laws bongs and their components must not be sold, supplied or displayed in

or near a shop, including market stalls.

The bong definition excludes ‘hookahs’, which are traditional tobacco smoking implements.

The new laws require that a retailer display no more than three hookahs.

Enforcement

Queensland Health and Queensland Police will enforce the ice pipe and bong laws. Officers may

issue on-the-spot fines, or start legal proceedings for breaches of the new laws.

Penalties

$300 on-the-spot fines can be issued for breaches of the new laws, or a maximum penalty

of $10,500 (court fine) applies.

Further Information

For further information on the new laws, contact the TOBACCO HOTLINE 1800 005 998 8am to

6pm, 7 days a week.

Ice Pipe & Bong Laws

in Queensland

 

its a risk you take I guess, if you were going to take it on a plane I'd suggest keeping the conepieces and stem separate from the bong and never admit to what it is.

[torture]

it doesnt state anything about not bring them in... just states that they cant be sold, displayed etc in a shop.

[Ozzy420]

U can be done for inporting it into the state from what i have been told.

 

The best way it wrap it up nice and safe and post home, something i have done 3 times so far with nps and will be doing againe in Jan wile i am in Syd, i will be getting 3 as i want a new one my lil wants a new one and a friend of mine wants one as well and will be posting home...

[Teucer]

A few years ago flying back to QLD from VIC I had a few grams in my shoe under the sole. It was 2000 so obviously pre "War on Terror". No problems whatsoever.

 

Just treat the people politely, and remember whenever travelling to dress up. Don't look like a stereotypical stoner or you'll likely be called out.

[entheofarm]

TOBACCO AND OTHER SMOKING PRODUCTS ACT 1998 - SECT 26ZQ

26ZQ Sale, supply and display of bongs

 

(1) A person must not--

 

(a) sell a bong or a component of a bong; or

 

( supply a bong, or a component of a bong, as part of a business activity; or

 

© display a bong, or a component of a bong--

 

(i) in a shop; or

 

(ii) near, and in connection with, a shop.

 

Note--

 

'Sell' in paragraph (a) includes expose for sale. See the schedule, definition sell.

 

Maximum penalty--140 penalty units.

 

(2) It is a defence for the person to prove that a bong, or a component of a bong, is designed primarily to be used for a purpose other than administering a dangerous drug.

 

Examples of devices designed primarily to be used for another purpose--

 

buckets, garden hoses, water bottles

 

(3) For subsection (2), evidence of a disclaimer does not, of itself, prove that the bong or component of a bong is designed primarily to be used for a purpose other than administering a dangerous drug.

 

(4) In this section--

 

bong--

 

(a) means a device capable of being used for administering a dangerous drug by the drawing of smoke or fumes, resulting from heating or burning the drug in or on the device, through water or another liquid in the device; but

 

( does not include a hookah.

 

component, of a bong, means a device that--

 

(a) is apparently intended to be part of a bong; and

 

( is not capable of being used for administering a dangerous drug in the way described in the definition bong, paragraph (a), without an adjustment, modification or addition.

 

disclaimer means a statement on, or made in relation to, the bong or component of a bong, at or before the time of the commission of the alleged offence, to the effect that the bong or component is designed or intended to be used for a purpose that is not a purpose related to administering a dangerous drug.

 

 

DRUGS MISUSE ACT 1986 - SECT 10

10 Possessing things

 

(1) A person who has in his or her possession anything--

 

(a) for use in connection with the commission of a crime defined in this part; or

 

( that the person has used in connection with such a purpose;

 

is guilty of a crime.

 

Maximum penalty--15 years imprisonment.

 

(2) A person who unlawfully has in his or her possession anything (not being a hypodermic syringe or needle)--

 

(a) for use in connection with the administration, consumption or smoking of a dangerous drug; or

 

( that the person has used in connection with such a purpose;

 

commits an offence against this Act.

 

Maximum penalty--2 years imprisonment.

 

(3) A person (other than a medical practitioner, pharmacist or person or member of a class of persons authorised so to do by the Minister administering the Health Act 1937) who supplies a hypodermic syringe or needle to another, whether or not such other person is in Queensland, for use in connection with the administration of a dangerous drug commits an offence against this Act.

 

Maximum penalty--2 years imprisonment.

 

(4) A person who has in his or her possession a thing being a hypodermic syringe or needle who fails to use all reasonable care and take all reasonable precautions in respect of such thing so as to avoid danger to the life, safety or health of another commits an offence against this Act.

 

Maximum penalty--2 years imprisonment.

 

(4A) A person who has in his or her possession a hypodermic syringe or needle that has been used in connection with the administration of a dangerous drug who fails to dispose of such hypodermic syringe or needle in accordance with the procedures prescribed by regulation commits an offence against this Act.

 

Maximum penalty--2 years imprisonment.

 

(6) For subsection (1), the dangerous drug to which the commission of a crime relates is the dangerous drug directly or indirectly involved and in relation to which proof is required to establish the commission of the crime.

 

Example--

 

Suppose a person is guilty of a crime against this section because he or she has in his or her possession equipment for use in connection with the commission of a crime defined in section 8 of unlawfully producing a dangerous drug. That dangerous drug is the dangerous drug referred to in the penalty for subsection (1).

[mistyville]

I wish they'd fuck off!!!!