Ch. 6

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(b) Schedule II - In determining that a substance comes
within this schedule, the Department shall find:

1.  A high potential for abuse, and

2.  Currently accepted medical use in the United
States, or currently accepted medical use with severe
restrictions, and

3.  Abuse may lead to severe psychic or physical
dependence.

The following are controlled dangerous substances and are
included in this schedule:

a. Any of the following substances except those
narcotic drugs listed in other schedules whether produced
directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable
origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by
combination of extraction and chemical synthesis:

3. Any salt, compound, derivative, or
preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical
with any of the substances referred to in [clauses] ITEMS 1 and 2
OF THIS PARAGRAPH, except that these substances shall not include
decocainized coca leaves or extraction of coca leaves, which
extractions do not contain cocaine or ecgonine; and shall not
include the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium;

(d) Schedule IV - In determining that a substance comes
within this schedule, the Department shall find that:

1.  The substance has a low potential for abuse
relative to the substances listed in Schedule III; and

2.  The substance has currently accepted medical use
in treatment in the United States; and

3.  Abuse of the substance may lead to limited
physical dependence or psychological dependence relative to the
substances in Schedule III.

The following are controlled substances and are included in
this schedule:

d. The Department may except by rule any
compound, mixture, or preparation containing any depressant
substance listed in [subsection (a)] SUB-SUBPARAGRAPH A. OF THIS
PARAGRAPH from the application of all or any part of this act if
the compound, mixture, or preparation contains one or more active
medicinal ingredients not having a depressant effect on the
central nervous system, and if the admixtures are included
therein in combinations, quantity, proportion, or concentration

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