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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 952. Importation of controlled substances
(a) Controlled substances in schedule I or II and narcotic drugs in
schedule III, IV, or V; exceptions
It shall be unlawful to import into the customs territory of the
United States from any place outside thereof (but within the United
States), or to import into the United States from any place outside
thereof, any controlled substance in schedule I or II of subchapter
I of this chapter, or any narcotic drug in schedule III, IV, or V
of subchapter I of this chapter, except that -
(1) such amounts of crude opium, poppy straw, concentrate of
poppy straw, and coca leaves as the Attorney General finds to be
necessary to provide for medical, scientific, or other legitimate
purposes, and
(2) such amounts of any controlled substance in schedule I or
II or any narcotic drug in schedule III, IV, or V that the
Attorney General finds to be necessary to provide for the
medical, scientific, or other legitimate needs of the United
States -
(A) during an emergency in which domestic supplies of such
substance or drug are found by the Attorney General to be
inadequate,
(B) in any case in which the Attorney General finds that
competition among domestic manufacturers of the controlled
substance is inadequate and will not be rendered adequate by
the registration of additional manufacturers under section 823
of this title, or
(C) in any case in which the Attorney General finds that such
controlled substance is in limited quantities exclusively for
scientific, analytical, or research uses,
may be so imported under such regulations as the Attorney General
shall prescribe. No crude opium may be so imported for the purpose
of manufacturing heroin or smoking opium.
(b) Nonnarcotic controlled substances in schedule III, IV, or V
It shall be unlawful to import into the customs territory of the
United States from any place outside thereof (but within the United
States), or to import into the United States from any place
outside thereof, any nonnarcotic controlled substance in
schedule III, IV, or V, unless such nonnarcotic controlled
substance -
(1) is imported for medical, scientific, or other legitimate
uses, and
(2) is imported pursuant to such notification, or declaration,
or in the case of any nonnarcotic controlled substance in
schedule III, such import permit, notification, or declaration,
as the Attorney General may by regulation prescribe, except that
if a nonnarcotic controlled substance in schedule IV or V is also
listed in schedule I or II of the Convention on Psychotropic
Substances it shall be imported pursuant to such import permit
requirements, prescribed by regulation of the Attorney General,
as are required by the Convention.
(c) Coca leaves
In addition to the amount of coca leaves authorized to be
imported into the United States under subsection (a) of this
section, the Attorney General may permit the importation of
additional amounts of coca leaves. All cocaine and ecgonine (and
all salts, derivatives, and preparations from which cocaine or
ecgonine may be synthesized or made) contained in such additional
amounts of coca leaves imported under this subsection shall be
destroyed under the supervision of an authorized representative of
the Attorney General.
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