Opium Derivative - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: opium derivativeOpium derivative
Opium derivative, means:(a) medicinal opium, that is, opium which has undergone the processes necessary to adopt it for medicinal use in accordance with the requirements of the Indian Pharmacopoeia or any other pharmacopoeia notified in this behalf by the Central Government, whether in powder form or granulated or otherwise or mixed with neutral material;(b) prepared opium, that is, any product of opium obtained by any series of operations designed to transform opium into an extract suitable for smoking and the dross or other residue remaining after opium is smoked;(c) phenanthrene alkaloids, namely, morphine, codeine, thebaine and their salts;(d) diacetylmorphine, that is, the alkaloid also known as diamorphine or heroin and its salts; and(e) all preparations containing more than 0.2 per cent of morphine or containing any diacetyl morphine. [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, s. 2(xvi)]...
Manufactured drug
Manufactured drug, means--(a) all coca derivatives, medicinal cannabis, opium derivatives and poppy straw concentrate;(b) any other narcotic substance or preparation which the Central Government may, having regard to the available information as to its nature or to a decision, if any, under any International Convention, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a manufactured drug. [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), s. 2 (xi)]But does not include any narcotic substance or preparation which the Central Government may, having regard to the available information as to its nature or to a decision, if any, under any International Convention, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare not to be a manufactured drug....
Narcotic drug or narcotic
Narcotic drug or narcotic, means a substance which is coca leaf, or coca derivative, or opium, or derivative of opium, or Indian hemp and shall include any other substance, capable of causing or producing in human beings dependance, tolerance and withdrawal syndromes and which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a narcotic drug or narcotic. [Medicinal and Toilet Preparations (Excise Duties) Act, 1955 (16 of 1955), s. 2 (h)]...
Derivative of opium
Derivative of opium, S. 2(bb) 'derivative of opium' means:(i) Medicinal opium, that is opium which has undergone the processes necessary to adapt it for medicinal use,(ii) Prepared opium, that is, any product of opium obtained by any series of operations designed to transform opium into an extract suitable for smoking, and the dross or other residue remaining after opium is smoked,(iii) Morphine, that is, the principal alkaloid of opium having the chemical formula c17H19No3, and its salts, and its derivatives. [Medicinal and Toilet Preparations (Excise Duties) Act, 1955 (16 of 1955), s. 2(bb)]...
Codeine
One of the opium alkaloids a white crystalline substance C18H21NO3 similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine but much feebler in its action called also codeia...
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