SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        961

enact new Section 313B in lieu thereof, to stand in the place of
the sections repealed, and to be under the new subtitle "Health—
State Drug Abuse Control Act," to provide for the regulation and
control of the manufacture, distribution, delivery and possession
of depressant and stimulant drugs as denned, including counter-
feit drugs, providing for penalties for violations thereof, and
dealing in general with the subject of depressant and stimulant
drugs.

Whereas, The regulation and control of the manufacture, distri-
bution, delivery and possession of certain drugs, including depres-
sant and stimulant drugs as well as other drugs which have a
potential for abuse due to their depressant or stimulant effect on
the central nervous system, or because of their hallucinogenic effect,
is essential to the public health and safety of the people of Mary-
land; and

Whereas, There is a substantial traffic in counterfeit drugs,
posing a serious hazard to the health of innocent consumers of such
drugs, due to their being prepared in a clandestine fashion by
operators without proper qualification, facilities and manufactur-
ing controls; and

Whereas, The General Assembly of Maryland, with the welfare of
the people of Maryland in mind, has an obligation to regulate and
control the manufacture, distribution, delivery and possession of
the aforementioned drugs, to insure the public of the therapeutic
benefits of such drugs under medical supervision, by complementing
and supplementing laws and regulations of the United States Con-
gress and appropriate Federal agencies in order to prevent manu-
facture, distribution and delivery of such drugs for harmful or
illegitimate purposes, by placing upon manufacturers, wholesalers,
licensed compounders of prescriptions and persons prescribing such
drugs, a basic responsibility to prevent the improper distribution
of such drugs to the extent that these drugs are produced, handled,
sold or prescribed by them; now, therefore

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 313B and 313BA of Article 27 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1967 Supplement), title "Crimes and Punishments,"
subtitle "Health—Amphetamines," be and they are hereby repealed,
and that new Section 313B be and it is hereby enacted in lieu
thereof to stand in the place of the sections so repealed, and to be
under the new subtitle "Health—State Drug Abuse Control Act,"
and to read as follows:

State Drug Abuse Control Act
313B.

(a) As used in this subtitle:

(1)    The term "Department" means the State Department of
Health.

(2)    The term "person" includes individuals, partnerships, corpo-
rations and associations.

(8) The term "drug" means (i) articles recognized in the official
United States Pharmacapoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacapoeia