Ch. 5                                           LAWS OF MARYLAND

The following schedules include the controlled dangerous
substances listed or to be listed by whatever official name,
common or usual name, chemical name, or trade name designated.

(b) 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:

2. Any salt, compound, derivative, or
preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical
with any of the substances referred to in [clause 1,] ITEM 1 OF
THIS PARAGRAPH, except that these substances shall not include
the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium;

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Stylistic error in Article 27, § 279(b)a.2.

Occurred: Ch. 683, Acts of 1988.

The following schedules include the controlled dangerous
substances listed or to be listed by whatever official name,
common or usual name, chemical name, or trade name designated.

(d) 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.

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