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(k) "Sale" includes barter, exchange or offer therefor, and each such
transaction made by any person, whether as principal, proprietor, agent,
servant or employee.

(1) "Coca Leaves" includes cocaine and any compound, manufacture,
salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of coca leaves, except derivatives
of coca leaves which do not contain cocaine, ecgonine, or substances from
which cocaine or ecgonine may be synthesized or made.

(m) "Opium" includes morphine, codeine and heroin and any com-
pound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of opium.

(n) "Cannabis" includes the following substances under whatever names
they may be designated.

(1) The dried flowering or fruiting tops of the pistillate plant. Canna-
bis sativa L. from which the resin has not been extracted;

(2) The resin extracted from such tops; and

(3) Every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or prepa-
ration of such resin or of such tops from which the resin has not been
extracted.

(o) "Narcotic Drugs" means coca leaves, opium, cannabis and every
substance not chemically distinguishable from them.

(p) "Federal Narcotic Law" means the laws of the United States re-
lating to opium, coca leaves and other narcotic drugs.

(q) "Official Written Order" means an order written on a form pro-
vided for that purpose by the United States Commissioner Internal
Revenue, under any laws of the United States, making provision therefor,
if such order forms are authorized and required by Federal Law.

(r) "Dispense" includes distribute, leave with, give away, dispose of
or deliver.

(s) "Registry Number" means the number assigned to each person
registered under the Federal narcotic laws.

1935, ch. 59, sec. 284.

284. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, possess, have
under his control, sell, prescribe, administer, dispense or compound any
narcotic drug, except as authorized in this sub-title.

No person shall manufacture, compound, mix, cultivate, grow, or by
any other process produce or prepare narcotic drugs, and no person as a
wholesaler shall supply the same without having first obtained a license
so to do from the State Department of Health. A fee of five dollars
($5. 00) shall be charged for any license so issued. The State Department
of Health is authorized to make rules and regulations governing the issue
of any such license, provided, however, that this section shall not apply
to pharmacists, physicians, dentists and veterinarians in the regular course
of their legitimate professional activities.

1935, ch. 59, sec. 285.

285. No license shall be issued unless and until the applicant therefor
has furnished proof satisfactory to the State Department of Health: