Definitions - The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985 and Rules, 1985 | Forensic Pharmacy
Definitions
It contains leaves and
flowering tops of pistillate plants of Cannabis sativa
(c. indica) : Family-Cannabinaceae.
(a) Charas is the crude or
purified resin obtained from the cannabis plant and also includes concentrated
preparation and resin known as Hashish oil.
(b) Ganja is from the flowering or fruiting
tops of the cannabis plant (excluding the seeds and leaves not accompanied by
the tops), by whatever name they may be known or designated and
(c) Any mixture with
or without any neutral material of any of the above forms of cannabis or any
drink prepared therefrom.
It
includes:
(a) Crude cocaine is
the extract of coca leaf which can be used directly or indirectly for the
manufacture of cocaine.
(b) Ecgonine and all
the derivatives of ecgonine from which it can be recovered.
(c) Cocaine-methyl ester of benzoyl ecgonine and its salts
and
(d) All preparations containing more than 0.1 % of cocaine.
(a) It is the leaf of the coca plant Erythroxylon except, the leaf from which all ecgonine, cocaine and
any other ecgonine alkaloids have been removed.
(b) Any mixture
thereof with or without any neutral material but, does not include any
preparation containing not more than 0.1 % of cocaine.
5. Coca Plant
It is the plant of any
species of the Genus Erythroxylon i.e. E. coca, E. truxillence and
other species of Erythroxylon.
In
relation to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, it means:
(a) cultivating any coca plant or gathering any portion of
coca plant,
(b) cultivating the opium poppy or cannabis plant,
(c) engaging in the
production, manufacture, possession, sale, purchase, transportation,
ware-housing, concealment, use or consumption, import inter-state, export
interstate, import into India, export from India or transhipment of narcotic
drugs or psychotropic substances,
(d) dealing in any
activities in narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances other than those
referred to under subclauses (a) to (c) as above,
(e) handling or
letting out any premises for carrying on any of the activities referred to in
subclauses (a) to (d) given above.
Any substance which
the Central Government may, having regard to the available information as to
its possible use in the production or manufacturing of the narcotic drugs or
psychotropic substances or to the provisions ofany International Convention by
notification in Official Gazette,
declare to be a controlled substance.
(a) It means all
coca derivatives, medicinal cannabis, opium derivatives and poppy straw
concentrate,
(b)
Any other narcotic substance or preparation which the Central Government may
having regard to the available information as to its nature or to a decision if
any under any International Convention by notification in Official Gazette
declare to be a manufactured drug but, does not include any narcotic substance
or preparation which the Central Government may, having regard to the available
information as to its nature by notification in Official Gazette declare not to
be a manufactured drug.
It
means:
(a) Medicinal
opium-the opium in powder, granulated or any other form which has undergone the
processes necessary to adopt it for medicinal use in accordance with the
requirements of Indian Pharmacopoeia or any other Pharmacopoeia.
(b) Prepared opium-any product of opium obtained by series
of operations designed to transform opium into any extract suitable for
smoking,
(c) Phenanthrene
alkaloids namely, morphine, thebaine, codeine and their salts,
(d) diacetyl
morphine i.e., the alkaloid known as diamorphine or heroine and its salts, and
(e) all prepatations
containing more than 0.2% of morphine or containing any diacetyl morphine.
It
is the plant of the species of Papaver
somniferum L.(Papaveraceae) and the plant of any other species of Papaver from which opium or any
phenanthrene alkaloid can be extracted and which the Central Government may by
notification in the Official Gazette declare to be opium poppy for the purposes
of this Act.
It
represents all parts except, the seeds of the opium poppy after harvesting,
whether in their original form or crushed or powdered and whether or not juice
has been extracted therefrom.
It
means the material arising when poppy straw has entered into a process for the
concentration of its alkaloids.
It
is a natural or synthetic substance or its salt or preparation or any natural
material included in the list of psychotropic substances specified in the
Schedule to the Act.
The list of some of
the psychotropic substances covered under the Schedule to the Act include,
tetrahydrocannabinol, amphetamine, etycyclidine, rolicyclidine, psilocybine,
tenocyclidine, dexamphetamine, camazepam, clonazepam, clotizepam, diazepam,
cloxazolam, ketozolam, alprazolam, estazolam, bromazepam, haloxazolam, amobarbital,
pentobarbital, secobarbital, barbital, allobarbital, LSD, LSD-25, mesocarb,
cathine, tetrazepam, triazolam, prazepam, oxazepam, loprazolam, lorazepam,
mazindol, meprobamate and others.
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