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N.Y. Public Health Law § 3304: Prohibited acts

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  1. Public Health Law
  2. Article 33. Controlled Substances
  3. Title 1. General Provisions

* § 3304. Prohibited acts. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to

manufacture, sell, prescribe, distribute, dispense, administer, possess,

have under his control, abandon, or transport a controlled substance

except as expressly allowed by this article.

2. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess or have under his

control an official New York state prescription form except as expressly

allowed by this article.

* NB Separately amended -- cannot be put together

* § 3304. Prohibited acts. a. It shall be unlawful for any person to

manufacture, sell, prescribe, distribute, dispense, administer, possess,

have under his control, abandon, or transport a controlled substance

except as expressly allowed by this article.

b. It shall be unlawful for any physician practicing medicine as

defined in section sixty-five hundred twenty-one of the education law to

prescribe, dispense or administer any amphetamines or sympathomimetic

amine drug or compound thereof, designated as a schedule II controlled

substance pursuant to section thirty-three hundred six of this article

for the exclusive treatment of obesity, weight control or weight loss. A

violation of the provisions of this subdivision shall not be grounds for

prosecution under article two hundred twenty of the penal law.

* NB Separately amended -- cannot be put together

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