Source: http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/TITLE21/21-28/21-28-1.02-1.HTM
Timestamp: 2018-02-24 16:15:48
Document Index: 686927425

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 21', '§ 801', '§ 2', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 1']

§ 21-28-1.02. Definitions. [Effective January 1, 2018.].
(8) "Controlled substance" means a drug, substance, immediate precursor, or synthetic drug in schedules I  V of this chapter. The term shall not include distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages, as those terms are defined or used in chapter 1 of title 3, nor tobacco.
(9) "Counterfeit substance" means a controlled substance that, or the container or labeling of which, without authorization bears the trademark, trade name, or other identifying mark, imprint, number, or device, or any likeness of them, of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser, other than the person or persons who in fact manufactured, distributed, or dispensed the substance and that thereby falsely purports or is represented to be the product of, or to have been distributed by, the other manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser, or which substance is falsely purported to be or represented to be one of the controlled substances by a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser.
(10) "CRT" means cathode ray tube used to impose visual information on a screen.
(11) "Deliver" or "delivery" means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer of a controlled substance or imitation controlled substance, whether or not there exists an agency relationship.
(12) "Department" means the department of health of this state.
(13) "Depressant or stimulant drug" means:
(14) "Director" means the director of health.
(15) "Dispense" means to deliver, distribute, leave with, give away, or dispose of a controlled substance to the ultimate user or human research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for that delivery.
(16) "Dispenser" is a practitioner who delivers a controlled substance to the ultimate user or human research subject.
(17) "Distribute" means to deliver (other than by administering or dispensing) a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance and includes actual constructive, or attempted transfer. "Distributor" means a person who so delivers a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance.
(18) "Downtime" means that period of time when a computer is not operable.
(19) "Drug addicted person" means a person who exhibits a maladaptive pattern of behavior resulting from drug use, including one or more of the following: impaired control over drug use; compulsive use; and/or continued use despite harm, and craving.
(20) "Drug Enforcement Administration" means the Drug Enforcement Administration United States Department of Justice or its successor.
(21) "Federal law" means the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, (84 stat. 1236) (see generally 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq.), and all regulations pertaining to that federal act.
(22) "Hardware" means the fixed component parts of a computer.
(23) "Hospital" means an institution as defined in chapter 17 of title 23.
(24) "Imitation controlled substance" means a substance that is not a controlled substance, that by dosage unit, appearance (including color, shape, size, and markings), or by representations made, would lead a reasonable person to believe that the substance is a controlled substance and, which imitation controlled substances contain substances which if ingested, could be injurious to the health of a person. In those cases when the appearance of the dosage unit is not reasonably sufficient to establish that the substance is an "imitation controlled substance" (for example in the case of powder or liquid), the court or authority concerned should consider, in addition to all other logically relevant factors, the following factors as related to "representations made" in determining whether the substance is an "imitation controlled substance":
(25) "Immediate precursor" means a substance:
(26) "Laboratory" means a laboratory approved by the department of health as proper to be entrusted with controlled substances and the use of controlled substances for scientific and medical purposes and for the purposes of instruction.
(29) "Marijuana" means all parts of the plant cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not; the seeds of the plant; the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin, but shall not include the mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of mature stalks, (except the resin extracted from it), fiber, oil or cake, or the sterilized seed from the plant which is incapable of germination.
(30) "Narcotic drug" means 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:
(31) "Official written order" means an order written on a form provided for that purpose by the Drug Enforcement Administration under any laws of the United States making provision for an official form, if order forms are authorized and required by federal law, and if no order form is provided then on an official form provided for that purpose by the director of health.
(32) "Opiate" means any substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug having addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability.
(33) "Opium poppy" means the plant of the species papaver somniferum L., except the seeds of the plant.
(34) "Ounce" means an avoirdupois ounce as applied to solids and semi-solids, and a fluid ounce as applied to liquids.
(35) "Person" means any corporation, association, partnership, or one or more individuals.
(36) "Physical dependence" means a state of adaptation that is manifested by a drug class specific withdrawal syndrome that can be produced by abrupt cessation, rapid dose reduction, decreasing blood level of the drug, and/or administration of an antagonist.
(37) "Poppy straw" means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy, after mowing.
(38) "Practitioner" means:
(39) "Printout" means a hard copy produced by computer that is readable without the aid of any special device.
(40) "Production" includes the manufacture, planting, cultivation, growing, or harvesting of a controlled substance.
(41) "Qualified law enforcement agency" means the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, or the Medicaid Fraud and Patient Abuse Unit in the Office of the Attorney General.
(42) "Researcher" means a person authorized by the director of health to conduct a laboratory as defined in this chapter.
(43) "Sell" includes sale, barter, gift, transfer, or delivery in any manner to another, or to offer or agree to do the same.
(44) "Software" means programs, procedures and storage of required information data.
(45) "Synthetic drugs" means any synthetic cannabinoids or piperazines or any synthetic cathinones as provided for in schedule I.
(46) "Ultimate user" means a person who lawfully possesses a controlled substance for his or her own use or for the use of a member of his or her household, or for administering to an animal owned by him or her or by a member of his or her household.
(47) "Wholesaler" means a person who sells, vends, or distributes at wholesale, or as a jobber, broker agent, or distributor, or for resale in any manner in this state any controlled substance.
(P.L. 1974, ch. 183, § 2; P.L. 1982, ch. 151, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 215, § 1; P.L. 2005, ch. 93, § 1; P.L. 2005, ch. 104, § 1; P.L. 2013, ch. 326, § 1; P.L. 2013, ch. 404, § 1; P.L. 2017, ch. 262, § 1; P.L. 2017, ch. 263, § 1.)