Controlled Substances Act
TITLE 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER 13 - DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND
CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER I - CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT
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Possession Cases

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Andy Nolen,

Defense  Attorney for
Drug Possession Cases

In most cases a permanent
criminal record can be
prevented.  Your entire
future may rest on whether
or not a final permanent
conviction can be avoided.

Call Attorney Andy Nolen -
He has over 17 years
criminal defense law
experience.

713-697-4373
(39) The term ''regulated transaction'' means -

* (A) a distribution, receipt, sale, importation, or exportation of, or an international transaction
involving shipment of, a listed chemical, or if the Attorney General establishes a threshold
amount for a specific listed chemical, a threshold amount, including a cumulative threshold
amount for multiple transactions (as determined by the Attorney General, in consultation with
the chemical industry and taking into consideration the quantities normally used for lawful
purposes), of a listed chemical, except that such term does not include -
      o (i) a domestic lawful distribution in the usual course of business between agents or
employees of a single regulated person;
      o (ii) a delivery of a listed chemical to or by a common or contract carrier for carriage in the
lawful and usual course of the business of the common or contract carrier, or to or by a
warehouseman for storage in the lawful and usual course of the business of the warehouseman,
except that if the carriage or storage is in connection with the distribution, importation, or
exportation of a listed chemical to a third person, this clause does not relieve a distributor,
importer, or exporter from compliance with section 830 of this title;
      o (iii) any category of transaction or any category of transaction for a specific listed
chemical or chemicals specified by regulation of the Attorney General as excluded from this
definition as unnecessary for enforcement of this subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter;
      o (iv) any transaction in a listed chemical that is contained in a drug that may be marketed
or distributed lawfully in the United States under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21
U.S.C. 301 et seq.) unless -
            + (I)
                  # (aa) the drug contains ephedrine or its salts, optical isomers, or salts of optical
isomers as the only active medicinal ingredient or contains ephedrine or its salts, optical
isomers, or salts of optical isomers and therapeutically insignificant quantities of another active
medicinal ingredient; or
                  # (bb) the Attorney General has determined under section 814 of this title that the
drug or group of drugs is being diverted to obtain the listed chemical for use in the illicit
production of a controlled substance; and
            + (II) the quantity of ephedrine or other listed chemical contained in the drug included
in the transaction or multiple transactions equals or exceeds the threshold established for that
chemical by the Attorney General; or
      o (v) any transaction in a chemical mixture which the Attorney General has by regulation
designated as exempt from the application of this subchapter and subchapter II of this chapter
based on a finding that the mixture is formulated in such a way that it cannot be easily used in
the illicit production of a controlled substance and that the listed chemical or chemicals
contained in the mixture cannot be readily recovered; and
* (B) a distribution, importation, or exportation of a tableting machine or encapsulating
machine.
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