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?HOW ARE DRUGS DESCRIBED LEGALLY

المؤلف:  Max M. Houck، Jay A. Siegel

المصدر:  Fundamentals of Forensic Science

الجزء والصفحة:  p341-342

2026-08-09

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HOW ARE DRUGS DESCRIBED LEGALLY?

Even though most states subscribe to some form of the model-controlled substance legislation propounded by the Federal Government, there are still some differences in how drugs are defined by a state legislature. For example, as explained above, there were many legal problems for drug chemists when marihuana was narrowly defined as the specific species C. sativa. Likewise, cocaine was at one time, subject to legal challenges over its description as having to be derived from coca leaves. Cocaine can occur as two mirror image isomers, only one of which is derived from coca leaves. It is then left to the drug chemist to prove that an exhibit is not the other isomer. These examples reinforce the necessity that the drug chemist knows how the law defines a particular controlled substance so that the chosen scheme of analysis takes the defini tion into account.