(a) Establishment
There are established five schedules of controlled substances, to be known as
schedules I, II, III,
IV, and V. Such schedules shall initially
consist of the substances listed in this section. The schedules established
by this section shall be updated and republished on a semiannual basis during
the two-year period beginning one year after October 27, 1970, and shall be
updated and republished on an annual basis thereafter.
(b) Placement on schedules; findings required
Except where control is required by United States obligations under an international
treaty, convention, or protocol, in effect on October 27, 1970, and except in
the case of an immediate precursor, a drug or other substance may not be placed
in any schedule unless the findings required for such schedule are made with
respect to such drug or other substance. The findings required for each of the
schedules are as follows:
(1) Schedule I. -
(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other substance has
no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the
United States.
(C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance
under medical supervision.
(2) Schedule II. -
(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment
in the United States or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions.
(C) Abuse of the drug or other substances may lead to severe psychological or
physical dependence.
(3) Schedule III. -
(A) The drug or other substance has a potential for abuse less than the drugs
or other substances in schedules I and II.
(B) The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment
in the United States.
(C) Abuse of the drug or other substance may lead to moderate or low physical
dependence or high psychological dependence.
(4) Schedule IV. -
(A) The drug or other substance has a low potential for abuse relative to the
drugs or other substances in schedule III.
(B) The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment
in the United States.
(C) Abuse of the drug or other substance may lead to limited physical dependence
or psychological dependence relative to the drugs or other substances in schedule
III.
(5) Schedule V. -
(A) The drug or other substance has a low potential for abuse relative to the
drugs or other substances in schedule IV.
(B) The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment
in the United States.
(C) Abuse of the drug or other substance may lead to limited physical dependence
or psychological dependence relative to the drugs or other substances in schedule
IV.
(c) Initial schedules of controlled substances Schedules I, II, III, IV, and V shall, unless and until amended [1] pursuant to section 811 of this title, consist of the following drugs or other substances, by whatever official name, common or usual name, chemical name, or brand name designated:
(a) Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any
of the following opiates, including their isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and
salts of isomers, esters, and ethers, whenever the existence of such isomers,
esters, ethers, and salts is possible within the specific chemical designation:
(1) Acetylmethadol.
(2) Allylprodine.
(3) Alphacetylmathadol. [2] [2] So in original. Probably should be ''Alphacetylmethadol.''
(4) Alphameprodine.
(5) Alphamethadol.
(6) Benzethidine.
(7) Betacetylmethadol.
(8) Betameprodine.
(9) Betamethadol.
(10) Betaprodine.
(11) Clonitazene.
(12) Dextromoramide.
(13) Dextrorphan.
(14) Diampromide.
(15) Diethylthiambutene.
(16) Dimenoxadol.
(17) Dimepheptanol.
(18) Dimethylthiambutene.
(19) Dioxaphetyl butyrate.
(20) Dipipanone.
(21) Ethylmethylthiambutene.
(22) Etonitazene.
(23) Etoxeridine.
(24) Furethidine.
(25) Hydroxypethidine.
(26) Ketobemidone.
(27) Levomoramide.
(28) Levophenacylmorphan.
(29) Morpheridine.
(30) Noracymethadol.
(31) Norlevorphanol.
(32) Normethadone.
(33) Norpipanone.
(34) Phenadoxone.
(35) Phenampromide.
(36) Phenomorphan.
(37) Phenoperidine.
(38) Piritramide.
(39) Propheptazine.
(40) Properidine.
( 41) Racemoramide.
(42) Trimeperidine.
(b) Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any
of the following opium derivatives, their salts, isomers, and salt of isomers
whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible
within the specific chemical designation:
(1) Acetorphine.
(2) Acetyldihydrocodeine.
(3) Benzylmorphine.
(4) Codeine methylbromide.
(5) Codeine-N-Oxide.
(6) Cyprenorphine.
(7) Desomorphine.
(8) Dihydromorphine.
(9) Etorphine.
(10) Heroin.
(11) Hydromorphinol.
(12) Methyldesorphine.
(13) Methylhydromorphine.
(14) Morphine methylbromide.
(15) Morphine methylsulfonate.
(16) Morphine-N-Oxide.
(17) Myrophine.
(18) Nicocodeine.
(19) Nicomorphine.
(20) Normorphine.
(21) Pholcodine.
(22) Thebacon.
(c) Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any
material, compound, mixture, or preparation, which contains any quantity of
the following hallucinogenic substances, or which contains any of their salts,
isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of such salts, isomers,
and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation:
(1) 3,4-methylenedioxy amphetamine.
(2) 5-methoxy-3,4-methylenedioxy amphetamine.
(3) 3,4,5-trimethoxy amphetamine.
(4) Bufotenine.
(5) Diethyltryptamine.
(6) Dimethyltryptamine.
(7) 4-methyl-2,5-diamethoxyamphetamine.
(8) Ibogaine.
(9) Lysergic acid diethylamide.
(10) Marihuana. (Marijuana)
(11) Mescaline.
(12) Peyote.
(13) N-ethyl-3-piperidyl benzilate.
(14) N-methyl-3-piperidyl benzilate.
(15) Psilocybin.
(16) Psilocyn.
(17) Tetrahydrocannabinols.
(a) Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any
of the following substances 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:
(1) Opium and opiate, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of
opium or opiate.
(2) Any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically
equivalent or identical with any of the substances referred to in clause (1),
except that these substances shall not include the isoquinoline alkaloids of
opium.
(3) Opium poppy and poppy straw.
(4) coca [3] leaves, except coca leaves and extracts of coca leaves from which
cocaine, ecgonine, and derivatives of ecgonine or their salts have been removed;
cocaine, its salts, optical and geometric isomers, and salts of isomers; ecgonine,
its derivatives, their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers; or any compound,
mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of any of the substances
referred to in this paragraph.
[3] So in original. Probably should be capitalized.
(b) Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any
of the following opiates, including their isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and
salts of isomers, esters and ethers, whenever the existence of such isomers,
esters, ethers, and salts is possible within the specific chemical designation:
(1) Alphaprodine.
(2) Anileridine.
(3) Bezitramide.
(4) Dihydrocodeine.
(5) Diphenoxylate.
(6) Fentanyl.
(7) Isomethadone.
(8) Levomethorphan.
(9) Levorphanol.
(10) Metazocine.
(11) Methadone.
(12) Methadone-Intermediate, 4-cyano-2-dimethylamino-4,4-diphenyl butane.
(13) Moramide-Intermediate, 2-methyl-3-morpholino-1, 1-diphenylpropane-carboxylic
acid.
(14) Pethidine.
(15) Pethidine-Intermediate-A, 4-cyano-1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine.
(16) Pethidine-Intermediate-B, ethyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylate.
(17) Pethidine-Intermediate-C, 1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid.
(18) Phenazocine.
(19) Piminodine.
(20) Racemethorphan.
(21) Racemorphan.
(c) Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any injectable liquid which contains any quantity of methamphetamine, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers.
(a) Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any
material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the
following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system:
(1) Amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of its optical isomers.
(2) Phenmetrazine and its salts.
(3) Any substance (except an injectable liquid) which contains any quantity
of methamphetamine, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers.
(4) Methylphenidate.
(b) Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any
material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the
following substances having a depressant effect on the central nervous system:
(1) Any substance which contains any quantity of a derivative of barbituric
acid, or any salt of a derivative of barbituric acid.
(2) Chorhexadol.
(3) Glutehimide.
(4) Lysergic acid.
(5) Lysergic acid amide.
(6) Methyprylon.
(7) Phencyclidine.
(8) Sulfondiethylmethane.
(9) Sulfonethylmethane.
(10) Sulfonmethane.
(c) Nalorphine.
(d) Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any
material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing limited quantities of
any of the following narcotic drugs, or any salts thereof:
(1) Not more than 1.8 grams of codeine per 100 milliliters or not more than
90 milligrams per dosage unit, with an equal or greater quantity of an isoquinoline
alkaloid of opium.
(2) Not more than 1.8 grams of codeine per 100 milliliters or not more than
90 milligrams per dosage unit, with one or more active, non-narcotic ingredients
in recognized therapeutic amounts.
(3) Not more than 300 milligrams of dihydrocodeinone per 100 milliliters or
not more than 15 milligrams per dosage unit, with a fourfold or greater quantity
of an isoquinoline alkaloid of opium.
(4) Not more than 300 milligrams of dihydrocodeinone per 100 milliliters or
not more than 15 milligrams per dosage unit, with one or more active, nonnarcotic
ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts.
(5) Not more than 1.8 grams of dihydrocodeine per 100 milliliters or not more
than 90 milligrams per dosage unit, with one or more active, nonnarcotic ingredients
in recognized therapeutic amounts.
(6) Not more than 300 milligrams of ethylmorphine per 100 milliliters or not
more than 15 milligrams per dosage unit, with one or more active, nonnarcotic
ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts.
(7) Not more than 500 milligrams of opium per 100 milliliters or per 100 grams,
or not more than 25 milligrams per dosage unit, with one or more active, nonnarcotic
ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts.
(8) Not more than 50 milligrams of morphine per 100 milliliters or per 100 grams
with one or more active, nonnarcotic ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts.
(e) Anabolic steroids.
(1) Barbital.
(2) Chloral betaine.
(3) Chloral hydrate.
(4) Ethchlorvynol.
(5) Ethinamate.
(6) Methohexital.
(7) Meprobamate.
(8) Methylphenobarbital.
(9) Paraldehyde.
(10) Petrichloral.
(11) Phenobarbital.
Any compound, mixture, or preparation containing any of the following limited
quantities of narcotic drugs, which shall include one or more nonnarcotic active
medicinal ingredients in sufficient proportion to confer upon the compound,
mixture, or preparation valuable medicinal qualities other than those possessed
by the narcotic drug alone:
(1) Not more than 200 milligrams of codeine per 100 milliliters or per 100 grams.
(2) Not more than 100 milligrams of dihydrocodeine per 100 milliliters or per
100 grams.
(3) Not more than 100 milligrams of ethylmorphine per 100 milliliters or per
100 grams.
(4) Not more than 2.5 milligrams of diphenoxylate and not less than 25 micrograms
of atropine sulfate per dosage unit.
(5) Not more than 100 milligrams of opium per 100 milliliters or per 100 grams.
Footnotes [1] Revised schedules are published in the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 1308 of Title 21, Food and Drugs. SCHEDULE I
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