North Carolina § 90-94 - Schedule VI controlled substances.

§ 90-94. Schedule VI controlled substances.

This schedule includes the controlled substances listed or to be listed by whatever official name, common or usual name, chemical name, or trade name designated. In determining that such substance comes within this schedule, the Commission shall find: no currently accepted medical use in the United States, or a relatively low potential for abuse in terms of risk to public health and potential to produce psychic or physiological dependence liability based upon present medical knowledge, or a need for further and continuing study to develop scientific evidence of its pharmacological effects. The following controlled substances are included in this schedule: Marijuana. Tetrahydrocannabinols. Repealed by Session Laws 2017-115, s. 8, effective December 1, 2017, and applicable to offenses committed on or after that date. History (1971, c. 919, s. 1; 1973, c. 476, s. 128; c. 1358, s. 15; 1977, c. 667, s. 3; 1981, c. 51, s. 9; 1997-456, s. 27; 2011-12, s. 5; 2013-109, s. 1; 2015-162, s. 3; 2015-264, s. 48(a); 2017-115, s. 8.) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2013-109, s. 2, provides: "This act becomes effective July 1, 2013, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date. Prosecutions for offenses committed before the effective date of this act are not abated or affected by this act, and the statutes that would be applicable but for this act remain applicable to those prosecutions." Session Laws 2015-264, s. 91.7, is a severability clause. Session Laws 2017-115, s. 1, provides: "This act shall be known and may be cited as the 'Synthetic Opioid and Other Dangerous Drug Control Act.'" Session Laws 2017-115, s. 12, made the repeal of subdivision (3) by Session Laws 2017-115, s. 8, effective December 1, 2017, and applicable to offenses committed on or after that date. Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2011-12, s. 5, effective June 1, 2011, and applicable to offenses committed on or after that date, added subsection (3). Session Laws 2013-109, s. 1, effective July 1, 2013, in subdivision (3), substituted "Any quantity of any synthetic chemical compound that (i) is a cannabinoid receptor agonist and mimics the pharmacological effect of naturally occurring substances or (ii) has a stimulant, depressant, or hallucinogenic effect on the central nervous system" for "Any material, compound, mixture, or preparation," added "Synthetic cannabinoids include, but are not limited to, the substances listed in sub-subdivisions a. through j. of this subdivision," "any substance that" and the last sentence, and deleted "the following substances" preceding "their salts, isomers"; and added sub-subdivision (3)(j). For effective date and applicability, see Editor's note. Session Laws 2015-162, s. 3, effective December 1, 2015, and applicable to offenses committed on or after that date, rewrote subdivision (3)j; and added subdivisions (3)k. through (3)p. Session Laws 2015-264, s. 48(a), effective December 1, 2015, substituted "in sub-subdivisions a. through p." for "in sub-subdivisions a. through j." in the second sentence of the introductory paragraph of subdivision (3). Session Laws 2017-115, s. 8, repealed subdivision (3). For effective date and applicability, see editor's note. Legal Periodicals. - For survey of 1976 criminal case law, see 55 N.C.L. Rev. 976 (1977). For survey of 1982 criminal law, see 61 N.C.L. Rev. 1060 (1983).