Colorado legal term
Distribute in Colorado Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Colorado legislative session
In Colorado criminal law, “Distribute” 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 “Distribute” mean in Colorado criminal law?
"Distribute" means to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance, with or without remuneration. (C.R.S. § 18-18-102)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Offenses relating to marijuana and marijuana concentrate
- Trademark counterfeiting
- Enforcement of large-capacity magazine ban by regulating the manufacture, distribution, transfer, sale, and purchase of specified semiautomatic firearms
- Imitation controlled substances
- Unlawful distribution, manufacturing, dispensing, or sale
- Unlawful distribution of a suicide recording
- Unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, marking, altering, or modification of equipment and devices related to limited gaming
- Counterfeit substances prohibited
- Division of motor vehicles official product protection
- Furnishing cigarettes, tobacco products, or nicotine products to persons under twenty-one years of age
- Furnishing kratom products to persons under twenty-one years of age
- Tampering or drugging of livestock
Related terms in the same statutes
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