{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-18-13-132","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 18-13-132","heading":"Furnishing kratom products to persons under twenty-one years of age - definition.","body":"(1) (a) A person shall not give, sell, distribute, dispense, or offer for sale a kratom product to any person who is under twenty-one years of age.\n\n(b) Before giving, selling, distributing, dispensing, or offering to sell to an individual any kratom product, a person shall request from the individual and examine a government-issued photographic identification that establishes that the individual is twenty-one years of age or older.\n\n(c) A person who violates subsection (1)(a) or (1)(b) of this section commits a civil infraction and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of two hundred dollars, notwithstanding the provisions of section 18-1.3-503.\n\n(d) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under subsection (1)(a) of this section that the person furnishing the kratom product was presented with and reasonably relied upon a government-issued photographic identification that identified the individual receiving the kratom product as being twenty-one years of age or older.\n\n(2) (a) Nothing in this section prohibits a statutory or home rule municipality, county, or city and county from enacting an ordinance or resolution that prohibits the sale of any kratom products to persons under twenty-one years of age or imposes requirements more stringent than provided in this section.\n\n(b) A statutory or home rule municipality, county, or city and county shall not enact an ordinance or resolution that establishes a minimum age to purchase kratom products that is under twenty-one years of age.\n\n(3) As used in this section, \"kratom product\" means any product or ingredient containing:\n\n(a) Any part of the leaf of the Mitragyna speciosa plant if the plant contains the alkaloid mitragynine or 7-hydroxymitragynine; or\n\n(b) A synthetic material that contains the alkaloid mitragynine or 7-hydroxymitragynine.","path":["Title 18 - CRIMINAL CODE","Article 13 - Miscellaneous Offenses"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-18.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"e818075097f54b34ab12219024cfdeae3b783b98aaf9c8e2d580f8b66021a226","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-18-13-131","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-18-13-133"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}