Colorado legal term
Cocaine in Colorado Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Colorado legislative session
In Colorado criminal law, “Cocaine” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Colorado criminal code.
What does “Cocaine” mean in Colorado criminal law?
"Cocaine" means coca leaves, except coca leaves and extracts of coca leaves from which cocaine, ecgonine, and derivatives of ecgonine or their salts have been removed; cocaine, its salts, optical and geometric isomers, and salts of isomers; ecgonine, its derivatives, their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers; or any compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of any of the substances referred to in this subsection (4). (C.R.S. § 18-18-102)
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