California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions and Definitions

• Section 11000.
  This division shall be known as the “California Uniform Controlled Substances Act.”(Repealed and added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
• Section 11001.
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this chapter govern the construction of this division.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
• Section 11002.
  “Administer” means the direct application of a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, to the body of a patient for...
• Section 11003.
  “Agent” means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser. It does not include a...
• Section 11004.
  “Attorney General” means the Attorney General of the State of California.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
• Section 11005.
  “Board of Pharmacy” means the California State Board of Pharmacy.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
• Section 11006.5.
  “Concentrated cannabis” means the separated resin, whether crude or purified, obtained from cannabis.(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 27, Sec. 113. (SB 94) Effective June 27,
• Section 11007.
  “Controlled substance,” unless otherwise specified, means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor which is listed in any schedule in Section 11054, 11055, 11056, 11057, or...
• Section 11008.
  “Customs broker” means a person in this state who is authorized to act as a broker for any of the following:(a)  A person in this...
• Section 11009.
  “Deliver” or “delivery” means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer from one person to another of a controlled substance, whether or not there is an...
• Section 11010.
  “Dispense” means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including...
• Section 11011.
  “Dispenser” means a practitioner who dispenses.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
• Section 11012.
  “Distribute” means to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
• Section 11013.
  “Distributor” means a person who distributes. The term distributor also includes warehousemen handling or storing controlled substances and customs brokers.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1972,...
• Section 11014.
  “Drug” means (a) substances recognized as drugs in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or...
• Section 11014.5.
  (a) “Drug paraphernalia” means all equipment, products and materials of any kind which are designed for use or marketed for use, in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing,...
• Section 11015.
  “Federal bureau” means the Drug Enforcement Administration of the United States Department of Justice, or its successor agency.(Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 978, Sec. 2....
• Section 11016.
  “Furnish” has the same meaning as provided in Section 4048.5 of the Business and Professions Code.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
• Section 11017.
  “Manufacturer” has the same meaning as provided in Section 4034 of the Business and Professions Code.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
• Section 11018.
  “Cannabis” means all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of the...
• Section 11018.1.
  “Cannabis products” means cannabis that has undergone a process whereby the plant material has been transformed into a concentrate, including, but not limited to, concentrated...
• Section 11018.2.
  “Cannabis accessories” means any equipment, products or materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating,...
• Section 11018.5.
  (a) “Industrial hemp” means a fiber or oilseed crop, or both, that is limited to types of the plant Cannabis sativa L. having no more than...
• Section 11019.
  “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...
• Section 11020.
  “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...
• Section 11021.
  “Opium poppy” means the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L., except its seeds.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
• Section 11022.
  “Person” means individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, or association, or any other legal entity.(Amended...
• Section 11023.
  “Pharmacy” has the same meaning as provided in Section 4035 of the Business and Professions Code.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
• Section 11024.
  “Physician,” “dentist,” “podiatrist,” “pharmacist,” “veterinarian,” and “optometrist” means persons who are licensed to practice their respective professions in this state.(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 676,...
• Section 11025.
  “Poppy straw” means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy, after mowing.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
• Section 11026.
  “Practitioner” means any of the following:(a)  A physician, dentist, veterinarian, podiatrist, or pharmacist acting within the scope of a project authorized under Article 1 (commencing...
• Section 11027.
  (a)  “Prescription” means an oral order or electronic transmission prescription for a controlled substance given individually for the person(s) for whom prescribed, directly from the...
• Section 11029.
  “Production” includes the manufacture, planting, cultivation, growing, or harvesting of a controlled substance.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
• Section 11029.5.
  “Security printer” means a person approved to produce controlled substance prescription forms pursuant to Section 11161.5.(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 406, Sec. 2. Effective January...
• Section 11030.
  “Ultimate user” means a person who lawfully possesses a controlled substance for his own use or for the use of a member of his household...
• Section 11031.
  “Wholesaler” has the same meaning as provided in Section 4038 of the Business and Professions Code.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
• Section 11032.
  If reference is made to the term “narcotics” in any law not in this division, unless otherwise expressly provided, it means those controlled substances classified...
• Section 11033.
  As used in this division, except as otherwise defined, the term “isomer” includes optical and geometrical (diastereomeric) isomers.(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 21, Sec. 2....

Last modified: October 22, 2018