This division shall be known as the “California Uniform Controlled Substances Act.”

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this chapter govern the construction of this division.

“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 his immediate needs or to the body of a research subject by any of the following:

“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 common or contract carrier, public warehouseman, or employee of the carrier or warehouseman.

“Attorney General” means the Attorney General of the State of California.

“Board of Pharmacy” means the California State Board of Pharmacy.

“cannabis concentrate” means cannabis or industrial hemp that has undergone a process to concentrate one or more active cannabinoids, thereby increasing potency, and includes extracts, oils, hash, dab, shatter, rosin, wax, and the separated resin, whether crude or purified.

“Customs broker” means a person in this state who is authorized to act as a broker for any of the following:

“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 agency relationship.

“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 the prescribing, furnishing, packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for that delivery.

“Dispenser” means a practitioner who dispenses.

“Distribute” means to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance.

“Distributor” means a person who distributes. The term distributor also includes warehousemen handling or storing controlled substances and customs brokers.

“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 any supplement to any of them; (b) substances intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or animals; (c) substances (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or animals; and (d) substances intended for use as a component of any article specified in subdivision (a), (b), or (c) of this section. It does not include devices or their components, parts, or accessories.

derived.

marketed for use in parenterally injecting controlled substances into the human body.

pipes.

advertising, distributing, offering for sale, displaying for sale, or selling in a manner that promotes the use of equipment, products, or materials with controlled substances.

depict its use.

other adulterants, or controlled substances that include, without limitation, fentanyl, ketamine, gamma hydroxybutyric acid, or any analog of fentanyl.

“Federal bureau” means the Drug Enforcement Administration of the United States Department of Justice, or its successor agency.

“Furnish” has the same meaning as provided in Section 4048.5 of the Business and Professions Code.

“Manufacturer” has the same meaning as provided in Section 4034 of the Business and Professions Code.

“Cannabis” means all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa Linnaeus, Cannabis indica, or Cannabis ruderalis, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin from glandular trichomes or extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin. It does not include either of the following:

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“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, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, smoking, vaporizing, or containing cannabis, or for ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing cannabis or cannabis products into the human body.

following equation: Total THC concentration (mg/g) +/- the measurement of uncertainty, as defined by the Department of Food and Agriculture.

“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:

“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, unless specifically designated as controlled under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11053) of this division, the dextrorotatory isomer of 3-methoxy-n-methylmorphinan and its salts (dextromethorphan). It does include its racemic and levorotatory forms.

“Opium poppy” means the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L., except its seeds.

“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.

“Pharmacy” has the same meaning as provided in Section 4035 of the Business and Professions Code.

“Physician,” “dentist,” “podiatrist,” “pharmacist,” “veterinarian,” and “optometrist” means persons who are licensed to practice their respective professions in this state.

“Poppy straw” means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy, after mowing.

“Practitioner” means any of the following:

“Production” includes the manufacture, planting, cultivation, growing, or harvesting of a controlled substance.

“Security printer” means a person approved to produce controlled substance prescription forms pursuant to Section 11161.5.

“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 or for administering to an animal owned by him or by a member of his household.

“Wholesaler” has the same meaning as provided in Section 4038 of the Business and Professions Code.

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 in Schedules I and II, as defined in this division. If reference is made to “restricted dangerous drugs” not in this division, unless otherwise expressly provided, it means those controlled substances classified in Schedules III and IV. If reference is made to the term “marijuana” in any law not in this division, unless otherwise expressly provided, it means cannabis as defined in this division.

As used in this division, except as otherwise defined, the term “isomer” includes optical and geometrical (diastereomeric) isomers.