What US Controlled Substances Act (21 USC ch 13): Scheduling, Registration and Trafficking Penalties requires
The Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. ch. 13) is the federal statute regulating the manufacture, distribution, dispensing and possession of controlled substances, administered by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) with scientific and medical input from the Department of Health and Human Services. Section 801 states the congressional findings. Section 802 supplies the definitions, including controlled substance, manufacture, distribute and dispense. Section 811 grants the authority to control substances and the standards for scheduling, and section 812 establishes the five schedules (I to V) by reference to abuse potential, accepted medical use and dependence liability. Registration is mandatory: section 822 requires persons who manufacture, distribute or dispense controlled substances to register, section 823 sets the registration requirements, and section 824 provides for the denial, revocation or suspension of a registration. Section 841 sets out the principal prohibited acts and trafficking penalties: it is unlawful knowingly to manufacture, distribute or dispense, or possess with intent, a controlled substance, with penalties graduated by drug and quantity, including imprisonment of not less than 10 years up to life and fines up to 10,000,000 dollars for an individual (or 50,000,000 dollars for an entity) for the largest-quantity tier, and lesser tiers of not less than 5 years up to 40 years, up to 20 years, and up to 5 years. The Act is the legal foundation of US drug scheduling, the DEA registration system, and federal drug-trafficking enforcement.
Pillar: Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences · Authority: US Congress / Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2022-title21/html/USCODE-2022-title21-chap13.htm
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- Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. 801 - congressional findings and declarations.
- Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. 802 - definitions.
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