SENATE DOCKET, NO. 717        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1811

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to criminalize the attempted production of Class B drugs.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Section 32A of Chapter 94C of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting at the end of the first paragraph the following: “; provided, that possession with intent to manufacture shall include possession of the constituent ingredients; provided further, that simple possession of the constituent ingredients shall constitute neither proof nor presumption of intent to manufacture.”