36-2501. Definitions
A. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Board" means the Arizona state board of pharmacy.
2. "Cannabis" means the following substances under whatever names they may be
designated:
(a) Marijuana.
(b) All parts of any plant of the genus cannabis, whether growing or not, its
seeds, the resin extracted from any part of such plant, and every compound, manufacture,
salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of such plant, its seeds or resin, but shall not
include the mature stalks of such plant, fiber produced from such stalks, oil or cake
made from the seeds of such plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative,
mixture or preparation of such mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom),
fiber, oil, or cake or the sterilized seed of such plant which is incapable of
germination.
(c) Every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of such
resin, tetrahydrocannabinol (T.H.C.), or of such plants from which the resin has not been
extracted.
3. "Controlled substance" means a drug, substance or immediate precursor in
schedules I through V of article 2 of this chapter.
4. "Department" means the department of public safety.
5. "Drug dependent person" means a person who is using a controlled substance and
who is in a state of psychic or physical dependence, or both, arising from the use of
that substance on a continuous basis. Drug dependence is characterized by behavioral and
other responses which include a strong compulsion to take the substance on a continuing
basis in order to experience its psychic effects or to avoid the discomfort caused by its
absence.
6. "Drug enforcement administration" means the drug enforcement administration of
the department of justice of the United States or its successor agency.
7. "Immediate precursor" means a substance which the board has found to be and by
rule designates as being the principal compound commonly used or produced primarily for
use and which is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the
manufacture of a controlled substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent,
curtail or limit manufacture.
8. "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:
(a) Opium and opiate and any salt, compound, derivation or preparation of opium or
opiate.
(b) Any salt, compound, isomer, derivative or preparation which is chemically
equivalent or identical with any of the substances referred to in subdivision (a) of this
paragraph but not including the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium.
(c) Opium poppy and poppy straw.
(d) Coca leaves and any salt, compound, derivation or preparation of coca leaves
including cocaine and its optical isomers and any salt, compound, isomer, derivation or
preparation which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of these substances but
not including decocainized coca leaves or extractions of coca leaves which do not contain
cocaine or ecgonine.
(e) Cannabis.
9. "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. It does not include the
dextrorotatory isomer of 3-methoxy-n-methylmorphinan and its salts
(dextromethorphan). It does include its racemic and levorotatory forms.
10. "Opium poppy" means the plant of the genus papaver, except its seeds.
11. "Poppy straw" means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy after
mowing.
12. "Production" means the manufacture, planting, cultivating, growing or harvesting
of a controlled substance.
13. "Registrant" means a person registered under the provisions of the federal
controlled substances act (P.L. 91-513; 84 Stat. 1242; 21 U.S.C. sec. 801 et seq.).
14. "Schedule I controlled substances" means the controlled substances identified,
defined or listed in section 36-2512.
15. "Schedule II controlled substances" means the controlled substances identified,
defined or listed in section 36-2513.
16. "Schedule III controlled substances" means the controlled substances identified,
defined or listed in section 36-2514.
17. "Schedule IV controlled substances" means the controlled substances identified,
defined or listed in section 36-2515.
18. "Schedule V controlled substances" means the controlled substances identified,
defined or listed in section 36-2516.
19. "Scientific purpose" means research, teaching or chemical analysis.
20. "State", when applied to a part of the United States, means any state, district,
commonwealth, territory or insular possession of the United States and any area subject
to the legal authority of the United States of America.
B. Words or phrases in this chapter, if not defined in subsection A of this
section, have the definitions given them in title 32, chapter 18, article 1, unless the
context otherwise requires.
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