REYNOLDSON, Justice.
In this appeal we must decide whether a heroin addict should be permitted to set up her addiction as a defense to a charge of possession of a controlled substance (violation of what is now § 204.401 (3), The Code, 1973).
The facts are not in dispute. Defendant was arrested on a traffic charge warrant. In a police station search incident to the booking procedures, heroin and drug-use paraphernalia were found in her possession.
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