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New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 318-B:48: Possession of Ephedrine and Pseudoephedrine; Sale.

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  1. Title XXX: OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS
  2. Chapter 318-B: CONTROLLED DRUG ACT
  3. Ephedrine and Pseudoephedrine

I. No person shall knowingly and unlawfully possess a drug product containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine with the intent to use the product as a precursor to manufacture methamphetamine or another controlled substance.

II. A drug product containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine shall not be distributed at retail to the general public unless it is maintained in a locked display case or behind the counter out of the public's reach.

III. (a) A retail establishment shall not knowingly complete a sale to a person if the drug product or combination of drug products purchased would surpass a total of more than 3.6 grams within a 24-hour period or 9 grams within a 30-day period of ephedrine base, pseudoephedrine base, or phenylpropanolamine base or their isomers. The "base" form means the fraction of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine present within a formulation containing a salt form of those respective drugs.

(b) This section shall not apply to drug products dispensed pursuant to a valid prescription.

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