NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 443

HOUSE BILL 560

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 90-89 AND 90-90 RELATING TO THE SCHEDULING OF THE SUBSTANCE ETORPHINE HYDROCHLORIDE AND OTHER SCHEDULE II CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 90-89, as the same appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by rewriting subdivision (b) 9. to read as follows:

"9.        Etorphine (except hydrochloride salt)."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 90-90(a), as the same appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended as follows:

(a)        By rewriting subdivision 1 as follows:

"1.        Opium and opiate and any salt, compound, derivative or preparation of opium or opiate excluding naloxone and its salts, and excluding naltrexone and its salts, but including the following:

(i)         Raw opium

(ii)        Opium extracts

(iii)       Opium fluid extracts

(iv)       Powdered opium

(v)        Granulated opium

(vi)       Tincture of opium

(vii)      Apomorphine

(viii)      Codeine

(ix)       Ethylmorphine

(x)        Etorphine Hydrochloride

(xi)       Hydrocodone

(xii)      Hydromorphone

(xiii)      Metopon

(xiv)     Morphine

(xv)      Oxycodone

(xvi)     Oxymorphone

(xvii)     Thebaine."

(b)        By adding a new subdivision 5 as follows:

"5.        Concentrate of poppy straw (the crude extract of poppy straw in either liquid, solid or powder from which contains the phenanthrine alkaloids of the opium poppy)."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of May, 1975.