New Jersey § 24:21-6

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§ 24:21-6.

a. Tests. The director shall place a substance in Schedule II if he finds that the substance: (1) has high

potential for abuse; (2) has currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States,

or currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions; and (3) abuse may lead

to severe psychic or physical dependence. b. The controlled dangerous substances listed in this section are included in Schedule

II, subject to any revision and republishing by the director pursuant to subsection d. of section 3 of P.L.1970, c. 226 ( C.24:21-3 ) , and except to the extent provided in any other schedule. c. Any of the following substances except those narcotic drugs listed in other schedules

whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable

origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by 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 isoquinaline 1 alkaloids of opium. (3) Opium poppy and poppy straw. (4) Coca leaves and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of coca leaves,

and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent

or identical with any of these substances, except that the substances shall not include

decocainized coca leaves or extractions which do not contain cocaine or ecogine. d. Any of the following opiates, including their isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and

salts of isomers, esters and ethers, unless specifically excepted, 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-diphenyl-propane-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. 1

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