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Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 13. CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES · Article 2. REGULATION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES · Part 1. SCHEDULES, OFFENSES, AND PENALTIES

16-13-26. Schedule II.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. The controlled substances listed in this Code section are included in Schedule II:

  2. (1)

    Any of the following substances, or salts thereof, except those narcotic drugs specifically exempted or listed in other schedules, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by combination of extraction and chemical synthesis:#

    1. (A)

      Opium and opiate, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate, excluding naloxone hydrochloride, but including the following:#

      1. (i)

        Raw opium;#

      2. (ii)

        Opium extracts;#

      3. (iii)

        Opium fluid extracts;#

      4. (iv)

        Powdered opium;#

      5. (v)

        Granulated opium;#

      6. (vi)

        Tincture of opium;#

      7. (vii)

        Codeine;#

      8. (viii)

        Ethylmorphine;#

      9. (ix)

        Hydrocodone;#

      10. (x)

        Hydromorphone;#

      11. (xi)

        Metopon;#

      12. (xii)

        Morphine;#

      13. (xiii)

        Oripavine;#

      14. (xiv)

        Oxycodone;#

      15. (xv)

        Oxymorphone;#

      16. (xvi)

        Thebaine;#

    2. (B)

      Any salt, compound, isomer, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of the substances referred to in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, except that these substances shall not include the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium;#

    3. (C)

      Opium poppy and poppy straw;#

    4. (D)

      Cocaine, coca leaves, any salt, compound, derivative, stereoisomers of cocaine, or preparation of coca leaves, and any salt, compound, derivative, stereoisomers of cocaine, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of these substances, but not including decocainized coca leaves or extractions which do not contain cocaine or ecgonine;#

  3. (2)

    Any of the following opiates, including their isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, whenever the existence of these isomers, esters, ethers, and salts is possible within the specific chemical designation:#

    1. (A)

      Alfentanil;#

    2. (A.1)

      Alphaprodine;#

    3. (B)

      Anileridine;#

    4. (C)

      Bezitramide;#

    5. (C.5)

      Carfentanil;#

    6. (D)

      Dihydrocodeine;#

    7. (E)

      Diphenoxylate;#

    8. (F)

      Fentanyl;#

    9. (G)

      Isomethadone;#

    10. (G.5)

      Levo-alphacetylmethadol (some other names: levomethadyl acetate, LAAM);#

    11. (H)

      Levomethorphan;#

    12. (I)

      Levorphanol;#

    13. (J)

      Methazocine;#

    14. (K)

      Methadone;#

    15. (L)

      Methadone-Intermediate, 4-cyano-2-dimethylamino-4, 4-diphenyl butane;#

    16. (M)

      Moramide-Intermediate, 2-methyl-3-morpholino-1, 1-diphenyl-propane-carboxylic acid;#

    17. (M.3)

      Norfentanyl;#

    18. (M.5)

      Oliceridine;#

    19. (N)

      Pethidine (meperidine);#

    20. (O)

      Pethidine-Intermediate-A, 4-cyano-1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine;#

    21. (P)

      Pethidine-Intermediate-B, ethyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylate;#

    22. (Q)

      Pethidine-Intermediate-C, 1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4carboxylic acid;#

    23. (R)

      Phenazocine;#

    24. (S)

      Piminodine;#

    25. (T)

      Racemethorphan;#

    26. (U)

      Racemorphan;#

    27. (U.1)

      Remifentanil;#

    28. (V)

      Sufentanil;#

    29. (V.1)

      Tapentadol;#

    30. (V.2)

      Thiafentanil;#

    31. (W)

      4-anilino-N-phenethyl-4-piperidine (ANPP);#

  4. (3)

    Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances included as having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system:#

    1. (A)

      Amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of its optical isomers;#

    2. (B)

      Any substance which contains any quantity of methamphetamine, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers;#

    3. (C)

      Phenmetrazine and its salts;#

    4. (D)

      Methylphenidate, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers;#

    5. (E)

      Reserved;#

    6. (F)

      Nabilone;#

    7. (G)

      Lisdexamfetamine;#

  5. (4)

    Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any of the following substances included as having a depressant effect on the central nervous system, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation:#

    1. (A)

      Amobarbital;#

    2. (A.5)

      Glutethimide;#

    3. (B)

      Secobarbital;#

    4. (C)

      Pentobarbital;#

  6. (5)

    Dronabinol in oral solution labeled in compliance with U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirements.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 79A-807, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 221, § 1; Ga. L. 1977, p. 625, § 7; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1668, § 7; Ga. L. 1979, p. 859, §§ 6, 7; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1746, § 5; Ga. L. 1982, p. 2403, §§ 12, 17, 17.1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 1219, § 3; Ga. L. 1987, p. 261, §§ 2-4; Ga. L. 1988, p. 420, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 233, § 2; Ga. L. 1992, p. 1131, § 2; Ga. L. 1994, p. 169, § 4; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1311, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1317, § 1; Ga. L. 2007, p. 605, § 1/HB 286; Ga. L. 2008, p. 169, § 3/HB 1090; Ga. L. 2009, p. 126, § 1/HB 368; Ga. L. 2010, p. 860, § 2/SB 353; Ga. L. 2017, p. 14, §§ 5, 6/HB 231; Ga. L. 2017, p. 417, §§ 7-3, 7-4/SB 104; Ga. L. 2018, p. 314, § 5/HB 830; Ga. L. 2021, p. 386, § 5/HB 367.

Administrative rules and regulations

Registration Requirements under Georgia Controlled Substances Act, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Georgia State Board of Pharmacy, Rule 480-20-.01 et seq. Requirements of a Prescription Drug Order, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Georgia State Board of Pharmacy, Rule 480-22-.01 et seq.

Law reviews

For note on airport searches of drug couriers, see 33 Mercer L. Rev. 433 (1981). For survey article on criminal law and procedure, see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 89 (1982). For article on the 2017 amendment of this Code section, see 34 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 61 (2017). For annual survey on criminal law, see 69 Mercer L. Rev. 73 (2017).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t16-ch12-17-(v14b)-2024-pdf.pdf, Volume V14B, 2024 edition, pages 282 to 285; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 36dbab616896.