Task: sc_issue_1

What follows is an opinion from the Supreme Court of the United States. Your task is to determine the issue of the Court's decision. Determine the issue of the case on the basis of the Court's own statements as to what the case is about. Focus on the subject matter of the controversy rather than its legal basis.

Justice Blackmun
delivered the opinion of the Court.
In this case we must address the scienter requirement of the Mail Order Drug Paraphernalia Control Act, Pub. L. 99-570, Tit. I, §1822, 100 Stat. 3207-51, formerly codified, as amended, at 21 U. S. C. § 857, and the question whether the Act is unconstitutionally vague as applied to petitioners.
I
In 1977, petitioner Lana Christine Acty formed petitioner Posters ‘N’ Things, Ltd. (Posters), an Iowa corporation. The corporation operated three businesses, a diét-aid store, an art gallery, and a general merchandise outlet originally called “Forbidden Fruit,” but later renamed “World Wide Imports.” Law enforcement authorities received complaints that the merchandise outlet was selling drug paraphernalia. Other officers investigating drug cases found drug diluents (chemicals used to “cut” or dilute illegal drugs) and other drug paraphernalia that had been purchased from Forbidden Fruit.
In March 1990, officers executed warrants to search petitioners’ business premises and Acty’s residence. They seized various items, including pipes, bongs, scales, roach clips, and drug diluents including mannitol and inositol. The officers also seized cash, business records, and catalogs and advertisements describing products sold by petitioners. The advertisements offered for sale such products as “Coke Kits,” “Free Base Kits,” and diluents sold under the names “PseudoCaine” and “Procaine.”
Indictments on a number of charges relating to the sale of drug paraphernalia eventually were returned against petitioners and George Michael Moore, Acty’s husband. A joint trial took place before a jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
Petitioners were convicted of using an interstate conveyance as part of a scheme to sell drug paraphernalia, in violation of former 21 U. S. C. § 857(a)(1), and of conspiring to commit that offense, in violation of 18 U. S. C. § 371. Petitioner Acty also was convicted of aiding and abetting the manufacture and distribution of cocaine, in violation of 21 U. S. C. § 841(a)(1); investing income derived from a drug offense, in violation of 21 U. S. C. § 854; money laundering, in violation of 18 U. S. C. § 1956(a)(1); and engaging in monetary transactions with the proceeds of unlawful activity, in violation of 18 U. S. C. § 1957. Acty was sentenced to imprisonment for 108 months, to be followed by a 5-year term of supervised release, and was fined $150,000. Posters was fined $75,000.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the convictions. 969 F. 2d 652 (1992). Because of an apparent conflict among the Courts of Appeals as to the nature of the scienter requirement of former 21 U. S. C. § 857, we granted certiorari. 507 U. S. 971 (1993).
II
Congress enacted the Mail Order Drug Paraphernalia Control Act as part of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99-570, 100 Stat. 3207. As originally enacted, and as applicable in this case, the statute, 21 U. S. C. § 857(a), provides:
“It is unlawful for any person—
“(1) to make use of the services of the Postal Service or other interstate conveyance as part of a scheme to sell drug paraphernalia;
“(2) to offer for sale and transportation in interstate or foreign commerce drug paraphernalia; or
“(3) to import or export drug paraphernalia.”
Section 857(b) provides that anyone convicted under the statute shall be imprisoned for not more than three years and fined not more than $100,000.
A
Section 857(a) does not contain an express scienter requirement. Some courts, however, have located a scienter requirement in the statute’s definitional provision, § 857(d), which defines the term “drug paraphernalia” as “any equipment, product, or material of any kind which is primarily intended or designed for use” with illegal drugs. Petitioners argue that the term “primarily intended” in this provision establishes a subjective-intent requirement on the part of the defendant. We disagree, and instead adopt the Government’s position that § 857(d) establishes objective standards for determining what constitutes drug paraphernalia.
Section 857(d) identifies two categories of drug paraphernalia: items “primarily intended... for use” with controlled substances and items “designed for use” with such substances. This Court’s decision in Hoffman Estates v. Flip-side, Hoffman Estates, Inc., 455 U. S. 489, 500 (1982), governs the “designed for use” prong of § 857(d). In that case, the Court considered an ordinance requiring a license for the sale of items “designed or marketed for use with illegal cannabis or drugs,” and concluded that the alternative “designed... for use” standard referred to “the design of the manufacturer, not the intent of the retailer or customer.” Id., at 501. An item is “designed for use,” this Court explained, if it “is principally used with illegal drugs by virtue of its objective features, i. e., features designed by the manufacturer.” Ibid.
The objective characteristics of some items establish that they are designed specifically for use with controlled substances. Such items, including bongs, cocaine freebase kits, and certain kinds of pipes, have no other use besides contrived ones (such as use of a bong as a flower vase). Items that meet the “designed for use” standard constitute drug paraphernalia irrespective of the knowledge or intent of one who sells or transports them. See United States v. Mishra, 979 F. 2d 301, 308 (CA3 1992); United States v. Schneider-man, 968 F. 2d 1564,1567 (CA2 1992), cert, denied, 507 U. S. 921 (1993). Accordingly, the “designed for use” element of § 857(d) does not establish a scienter requirement with respect to sellers such as petitioners.
The “primarily intended... for use” language of § 857(d) presents a more difficult problem. The language might be understood to refer to the state of mind of the defendant (here, the seller), and thus to require an intent on the part of the defendant that the items at issue be used with drugs. Some Courts of Appeals have adopted this construction, see Mishra, 979 F. 2d, at 307; United States v. Murphy, 977 F. 2d 503, 506 (CA10 1992); Schneiderman, 968 F. 2d, at 1567; United States v. 57,261 Items of Drug Paraphernalia, 869 F. 2d 955, 957 (CA6), cert, denied, 493 U. S. 933 (1989), and this Court in Hoffman Estates interpreted the arguably parallel phrase “marketed for use” as describing “a retailer’s intentional display and marketing of merchandise,” 455 U. S., at 502, and thus requiring scienter. On the other hand, there is greater ambiguity in the phrase “primarily intended... for use” than in the phrase “marketed for use.” The term “primarily intended” could refer to the intent of non-defendants, including manufacturers, distributors, retailers, buyers, or users. Several considerations lead us to conclude that “primarily intended... for use” refers to a product’s likely use rather than to the defendant’s state of mind.
First, the structure of the statute supports an objective interpretation of the “primarily intended... for use” standard. Section 857(d) states that drug paraphernalia “includes items primarily intended or designed for use in” consuming specified illegal drugs, “such as...,” followed by a list of 15 items constituting per se drug paraphernalia. The inclusion of the “primarily intended” term along with the “designed for use” term in the introduction to the list of per se paraphernalia suggests that at least some of the per se items could be “primarily intended” for use with illegal drugs irrespective of a particular defendant’s intent — that is, as an objective matter. Moreover, § 857(e) lists eight objective factors that may be considered “in addition to all other logically relevant factors” in “determining whether an item constitutes drug paraphernalia.” These factors generally focus on the actual use of the item in the community. Congress did not include among the listed factors a defendant’s statements about his intent or other factors directly establishing subjective intent. This omission is significant in light of the fact that the parallel list contained in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Model Drug Paraphernalia Act, on which § 857 was based, includes among the relevant factors “[statements by an owner... concerning [the object’s] use” and “[d]irect or circumstantial evidence of the intent of an owner... to deliver it to persons whom he knows, or should reasonably know, intend to use the object to facilitate a violation of this Act.”
An objective construction of the definitional provision also finds support in § 857(f), which establishes an exemption for items “traditionally intended for use with tobacco products.” An item’s “traditional” use is not based on the subjective intent of a particular defendant. In 1988, Congress added the word “traditionally” in place of “primarily” in the § 857(f) exemption in order to “clarif[yj” the meaning of the exemption. Pub. L. 100-690, Tit. VI, §6485, 102 Stat. 4384. Congress’ characterization of the amendment as merely “clarifying” the law suggests that the original phrase — “primarily intended” — was not a reference to the fundamentally different concept of a defendant’s subjective intent.
Finally, an objective construction of the phrase “primarily intended” is consistent with the natural reading of similar language in definitional provisions of other federal criminal statutes.. See 18 U. S. C. § 921(a)(17)(B) (“armor piercing ammunition” excludes any projectile that is “primarily intended” to be used for sporting purposes, as found by the Secretary of the Treasury); 21 U. S. C. § 860(d)(2) (1988 ed., Supp. V) (“youth center” means a recreational facility “intended primarily for use by persons under 18 years of age”).
We conclude that the term “primarily intended... for use” in § 857(d) is to be understood objectively and refers generally to an item’s likely use. Rather than serving as the basis for a subjective scienter requirement, the phrase “primarily intended or designed for use” in the definitional provision establishes objective standards for determining what constitutes drug paraphernalia.
B
Neither our conclusion that Congress intended an objective construction of the “primarily intended” language in § 857(d), nor the fact that Congress did not include the word “knowingly” in the text of § 857, justifies the conclusion that Congress intended to dispense entirely with a scienter requirement. This Court stated in United States v. United States Gypsum Co., 438 U. S. 422, 438 (1978): “Certainly far more than the simple omission of the appropriate phrase from the statutory definition is necessary to justify dispensing with an intent requirement.” Even statutes creating public welfare offenses generally require proof that the defendant had knowledge of sufficient facts to alert him to the probability of regulation of his potentially dangerous conduct. See Staples v. United States, post, at 607, and n. 3; United States v. Dotterweich, 320 U. S. 277, 281 (1943). We conclude that §857 is properly construed as containing a scienter requirement.
We turn to the nature of that requirement in this statute. In United States v. Bailey, 444 U. S. 394, 404 (1980), this Court distinguished between the mental states of “‘purpose’ ” and “ ‘knowledge,’ ” explaining, id., at 408, that, “except in narrow classes of offenses, proof that the defendant acted knowingly is sufficient to support a conviction.” In Bailey, the Court read into the federal escape statute, 18 U. S. C. § 751(a), a requirement that “an escapee knew his actions would result in his leaving physical confinement without permission,” rejecting a heightened mens rea that would have required “‘an intent to avoid confinement.’” 444 U. S., at 408. Similarly, in United States v. United States Gypsum Co., 438 U. S., at 444, the Court addressed the question whether a criminal violation of the Sherman Act “requires, in addition to proof of anticompetitive effects, a demonstration that the disputed conduct was undertaken with the ‘conscious object’ of producing such effects, or whether it is sufficient that the conduct is shown to have been undertaken with knowledge that the proscribed effects would most likely follow.” The Court concluded that “action undertaken with knowledge of its probable consequences... can be a sufficient predicate for a finding of criminal liability under the antitrust laws.” Ibid.
As in Bailey and United States Gypsum, we conclude that a defendant must act knowingly in order to be liable under §857. Requiring that a seller of drug paraphernalia act with the “purpose” that the items be used with illegal drugs would be inappropriate. The purpose of a seller of drug paraphernalia is to sell his product; the seller is indifferent as to whether that product ultimately is used in connection with illegal drugs or otherwise. If § 857 required a purpose that the items be used with illegal drugs, individuals could avoid liability for selling bongs and cocaine freebase kits simply by establishing that they lacked the “conscious object” that the items be used with illegal drugs.
Further, we do not think that the knowledge standard in this context requires knowledge on the defendant’s part that a particular customer actually will use an item of drug paraphernalia with illegal drugs. It is sufficient that the defendant be aware that customers in general are likely to use the merchandise with drugs. Therefore, the Government must establish that the defendant knew that the items at issue are likely to be used with illegal drugs. Cf. United States Gypsum, 488 U. S., at 444 (knowledge of “probable consequences” sufficient for conviction). A conviction under § 857(a)(1), then, requires the Government to prove that the defendant knowingly made use of an interstate conveyance as part of a scheme to sell items that he knew were likely to be used with illegal drugs.
Finally, although the Government must establish that the defendant knew that the items at issue are likely to be used with illegal drugs, it need not prove specific knowledge that the items are “drug paraphernalia” within the meaning of the statute. Cf. Hamling v. United States, 418 U. S. 87 (1974) (statute prohibiting mailing of obscene materials does not require proof that defendant knew the materials at issue met the legal definition of “obscenity”). As in Hamling, it is sufficient for the Government to show that the defendant “knew the character and nature of the materials” with which he dealt. Id., at 123.
In light of the above, we conclude that the jury instructions given by the District Court adequately conveyed the legal standards for petitioners’ convictions under §857.
III
Petitioners argue that § 857 is unconstitutionally vague as applied to them in this case. “[T]he void-for-vagueness doctrine requires that a penal statute define the criminal offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.” Kolender v. Lawson, 461 U. S. 352, 357 (1983); see also Grayned v. Rockford, 408 U. S. 104, 108-109 (1972). Whatever its status as a general matter, we cannot say that § 857 is unconstitutionally vague as applied in this case.
First, the list of items in § 857(d) constituting per se drug paraphernalia provides individuals and law enforcement officers with relatively clear guidelines as to prohibited conduct. With respect to the listed items, there can be little doubt that the statute is sufficiently determinate to meet constitutional requirements. Many items involved in this case — including bongs, roach clips, and pipes designed for use with illegal drugs — are among the items specifically listed in § 857(d).
Second, § 857(e) sets forth objective criteria for assessing whether items constitute drug paraphernalia. These factors minimize the possibility of arbitrary enforcement and assist in defining the sphere of prohibited conduct under the statute. See Mishra, 979 F. 2d, at 309; Schneiderman, 968 F. 2d, at 1568. Section 857(f)’s exemption for tobacco-related products further limits the scope of the statute and precludes its enforcement against legitimate sellers of lawful products.
Finally, the scienter requirement that we have inferred in §857 assists in avoiding any vagueness problem. “[T]he Court has recognized that a scienter requirement may mitigate a law’s vagueness, especially with respect to the adequacy of notice... that [the] conduct is proscribed.” Hoffman Estates, 455 U. S., at 499.
Section 857’s application to multiple-use items — such as scales, razor blades, and mirrors — may raise more serious concerns. Such items may be used for legitimate as well as illegitimate purposes, and “a certain degree of ambiguity necessarily surrounds their classification.” Mishra, 979 F. 2d, at 309. This case, however, does not implicate vagueness or other due process concerns with respect to such items. Petitioners operated a full-scale “head shop,” a business devoted substantially to the sale of products that clearly constituted drug paraphernalia. The Court stated in Hoffman Estates: “The theoretical possibility that the village will enforce its ordinance against a paper clip placed next to Rolling Stone magazine... is of no due process significance unless the possibility ripens into a prosecution.” 455 U. S., at 503-504, n. 21. Similarly here, we need not address the possible application of § 857 to a legitimate merchant engaging in the sale of only multiple-use items.
IV
Petitioner Acty’s other contentions are not properly before the Court. First, she argues that she was improperly convicted of aiding and abetting the manufacture and distribution of cocaine because the jury instructions created a “presumption” that certain items of drug paraphernalia “were intended for manufacturing with a controlled substance.” Brief for Petitioners 17. This argument was neither raised in nor addressed by the Court of Appeals. See Lawn v. United States, 355 U. S. 339, 362-363, n. 16 (1958). Second, Acty asserts that her convictions for money laundering, investing income derived from a drug offense, and engaging in monetary transactions with the proceeds of unlawful activity must be reversed. These contentions were not presented in the petition for writ of certiorari, and therefore they are not properly raised here. See this Court’s Rule 14.1(a). Finally, the petition presented the question whether the proof was adequate to support Acty’s conviction for aiding and abetting the manufacture and distribution of cocaine; but petitioners’ brief on the merits fails to address the issue and therefore abandons it. See Russell v. United States, 369 U. S. 749, 754, n. 7 (1962).
Accordingly, the judgment of the Court of Appeals is affirmed.
It is so ordered.
A “bong” is a “water pipe that consists of a bottle or a vertical tube partially filled with liquid and a smaller tube ending in a bowl, used often in smoking narcotic substances.” American Heritage Dictionary 215 (3d ed. 1992).
The statute defines “roach clips” as “objects used to

Question: What is the issue of the decision?
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数. habeas corpus
日. plea bargaining: the constitutionality of and/or the circumstances of its exercise
的. retroactivity (of newly announced or newly enacted constitutional or statutory rights)
月. search and seizure (other than as pertains to vehicles or Crime Control Act)
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人. extra-legal jury influences: jury instructions (not necessarily in criminal cases)
功. extra-legal jury influences: voir dire (not necessarily a criminal case)
上. extra-legal jury influences: prison garb or appearance
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为. extra-legal jury influences: pretrial publicity
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回. subconstitutional fair procedure: entrapment
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页. subconstitutional fair procedure: fugitive from justice
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表. statutory construction of criminal laws: escape from custody
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主. antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
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正. liability, punitive damages
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意. state or local government tax
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已. federal or state regulation of securities
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源. federal or state consumer protection: typically under the Truth in Lending; Food, Drug and Cosmetic; and Consumer Protection Credit Acts
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時. patents and copyrights: copyright
交. patents and copyrights: trademark
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询. federal and some few state regulation of transportation regulation:truck, or motor carrier
符. federal and some few state regulation of transportation regulation: pipeline (cf. federal public utilities regulation: gas pipeline)
未. federal and some few state regulation of transportation regulation: airline
程. federal and some few state regulation of public utilities regulation: electric power
常. federal and some few state regulation of public utilities regulation: nuclear power
条. federal and some few state regulation of public utilities regulation: oil producer
当. federal and some few state regulation of public utilities regulation: gas producer
情. federal and some few state regulation of public utilities regulation: gas pipeline (cf. federal transportation regulation: pipeline)
口. federal and some few state regulation of public utilities regulation: radio and television (cf. cable television)
合. federal and some few state regulation of public utilities regulation: cable television (cf. radio and television)
车. federal and some few state regulations of public utilities regulation: telephone or telegraph company
实. miscellaneous economic regulation
组. comity: civil rights
版. comity: criminal procedure
周. comity: First Amendment
址. comity: habeas corpus
记. comity: military
二. comity: obscenity
同. comity: privacy
业. comity: miscellaneous
权. comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
其. assessment of costs or damages: as part of a court order
进. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure including Supreme Court Rules, application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in civil litigation, Circuit Court Rules, and state rules and admiralty rules
试. judicial review of administrative agency's or administrative official's actions and procedures
验. mootness (cf. standing to sue: live dispute)
料. venue
传. no merits: writ improvidently granted
述. no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit
集. no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of jurisdiction (cf. judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal from federal district courts or courts of appeals)
多. no merits: adequate non-federal grounds for decision
无. no merits: remand to determine basis of state or federal court decision (cf. judicial administration: state law)
员. no merits: miscellaneous
报. standing to sue: adversary parties
他. standing to sue: direct injury
無. standing to sue: legal injury
服. standing to sue: personal injury
线. standing to sue: justiciable question
这. standing to sue: live dispute
制. standing to sue: parens patriae standing
将. standing to sue: statutory standing
处. standing to sue: private or implied cause of action
高. standing to sue: taxpayer's suit
子. standing to sue: miscellaneous
道. judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal district courts or territorial courts
章. judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal courts of appeals
手. judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from federal district courts or courts of appeals (cf. 753)
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三. judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of the Court of Claims
从. judicial administration: Supreme Court's original jurisdiction
支. judicial administration: review of non-final order
家. judicial administration: change in state law (cf. no merits: remand to determine basis of state court decision)
长. judicial administration: federal question (cf. no merits: dismissed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question)
付. judicial administration: ancillary or pendent jurisdiction
秒. judicial administration: extraordinary relief (e.g., mandamus, injunction)
路. judicial administration: certification (cf. objection to reason for denial of certiorari or appeal)
完. judicial administration: resolution of circuit conflict, or conflict between or among other courts
象. judicial administration: objection to reason for denial of certiorari or appeal
则. judicial administration: collateral estoppel or res judicata
现. judicial administration: interpleader
京. judicial administration: untimely filing
转. judicial administration: Act of State doctrine
辑. judicial administration: miscellaneous
限. Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction
力. miscellaneous judicial power, especially diversity jurisdiction
学. federal-state ownership dispute (cf. Submerged Lands Act)
外. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction
调. federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation. cf. state regulation of business. rarely involves union activity. Does not involve constitutional interpretation unless the Court says it does.
项. Submerged Lands Act (cf. federal-state ownership dispute)
北. national supremacy: commodities
工. national supremacy: intergovernmental tax immunity
笑. national supremacy: marital and family relationships and property, including obligation of child support
监. national supremacy: natural resources (cf. natural resources - environmental protection)
任. national supremacy: pollution, air or water (cf. natural resources - environmental protection)
相. national supremacy: public utilities (cf. federal public utilities regulation)
微. national supremacy: state tax (cf. state tax)
册. national supremacy: miscellaneous
联. miscellaneous federalism
平. boundary dispute between states
增. non-real property dispute between states
听. miscellaneous interstate relations conflict
解. incorporation of foreign territories
等. federal taxation, typically under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code
得. federal taxation of gifts, personal, business, or professional expenses
收. priority of federal fiscal claims: over those of the states or private entities
安. miscellaneous federal taxation (cf. national supremacy: state tax)
价. legislative veto
藏. executive authority vis-a-vis congress or the states
命. miscellaneous
应. real property
看. personal property
索. contracts
资. evidence
产. civil procedure
串. torts
布. wills and trusts
原. commercial transactions
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