Ch. 10

1996 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(j) "Depressant or stimulant drug" shall [mean —] MEAN:

[(i)] (1) A drug which contains any quantity [of] OF: (a) barbituric acid or
any of the salts of barbituric acid; or (b) any derivative of barbituric acid which has been
designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services as habit forming under §
502(d) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 352 (d)); or

[(ii)] (2) A drug which contains any quantity [of] OF: (a) amphetamine or its
optical isomers; (b) any salt of amphetamine or any salt of an optical isomer of
amphetamine; or (c) any substance which the Attorney General of the United States,
after investigation, has found to be, and by regulation designated as, habit forming
because of its stimulant effect on the central nervous system; or

[(iii)] (3) Lysergic acid diethylamide; or

[(iv)] (4) Any drug which contains any quantity of a substance which the
Attorney General of the United States, after investigation, has found to have, and by
regulation designated as having, a potential for abuse because of its depressant or
stimulant effect on the central nervous system or its hallucinogenic effect.

(q) "Narcotic drug" shall mean any of the following, whether produced directly or
indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by means of
chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis; and which
have been found to present an extreme danger to the health and welfare of the
community because of their addiction-forming and addiction-sustaining liabilities:

[(i)] (1) "Opiate" shall mean any substance having an addiction-forming or
addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a
drug having such addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability. It does not include,
unless specifically designated as controlled under § 278 of this subheading the
dextrorotatory isomer of 3-methoxy-n-methyl-morphinan and its salts
(dextromethorphan). It does include its racemic and levorotatory forms; and "opium
poppy" which shall mean the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L., except the
seeds thereof, and "poppy straw" which shall mean all parts,' except the seeds, of the
opium poppy, after mowing; and "coca leaves" which shall mean cocaine, its optical and
geometric isomers, 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;

[(ii)](2) A compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, or preparation of
opium, coca leaves, or opiates;

[(iii)] (3) A substance and any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, or
preparation thereof which is chemically identical with any of the substances referred to in
[items (i) and (ii)] PARAGRAPHS (1) AND (2) of this [paragraph] SUBSECTION, except
that the words "narcotic drug" as used in this section include decocainized coca leaves or
extracts of coca leaves, which extracts do not contain cocaine or ecgonine.

(t) "Practitioner" shall mean one of the following:

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