CHAPTER 1. General Provisions and Definitions [11000. - 11033.]
Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.
§§ 11000–11033 · 38 sections
- § 11000 This division shall be known as the “California Uniform Controlled Substances Act.”
- § 11001 Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this chapter govern the construction of this division.
- § 11002 “Administer” means the direct application of a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, to the body of a patient…
- § 11003 “Agent” means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser. It does not include a common or…
- § 11004 “Attorney General” means the Attorney General of the State of California.
- § 11005 “Board of Pharmacy” means the California State Board of Pharmacy.
- § 11006.5 (a) Before January 1, 2026, “concentrated cannabis” means the separated resin, whether crude or purified, obtained from cannabis. (b) Beginning on January 1,…
- § 11007 “Controlled substance,” unless otherwise specified, means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor which is listed in any schedule in Section 11054, 11055,…
- § 11008 “Customs broker” means a person in this state who is authorized to act as a broker for any of the following: (a) A person in this state who is licensed to…
- § 11009 “Deliver” or “delivery” means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer from one person to another of a controlled substance, whether or not there is an…
- § 11010 “Dispense” means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the…
- § 11011 “Dispenser” means a practitioner who dispenses.
- § 11012 “Distribute” means to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance.
- § 11013 “Distributor” means a person who distributes. The term distributor also includes warehousemen handling or storing controlled substances and customs brokers.
- § 11014 “Drug” means (a) substances recognized as drugs in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or…
- § 11014.5 (a) “Drug paraphernalia” means all equipment, products, and materials of any kind that are designed for use or marketed for use, in planting, propagating,…
- § 11015 “Federal bureau” means the Drug Enforcement Administration of the United States Department of Justice, or its successor agency.
- § 11016 “Furnish” has the same meaning as provided in Section 4048.5 of the Business and Professions Code.
- § 11017 “Manufacturer” has the same meaning as provided in Section 4034 of the Business and Professions Code.
- § 11018 “Cannabis” means all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa Linnaeus, Cannabis indica, or Cannabis ruderalis, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin…
- § 11018.1 (a) “Cannabis products” means a product containing cannabis or cannabis concentrate and includes, but is not limited to, edible, topical, and inhaled products,…
- § 11018.2 “Cannabis accessories” means any equipment, products or materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating,…
- § 11018.5 (a) (1) “Industrial hemp” or “hemp” means types of the plant Cannabis sativa Linnaeus or any part of that plant with a total tetrahydrocannabinol concentration…
- § 11019 “Narcotic drug” means any of the following, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by…
- § 11020 “Opiate” means any substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug…
- § 11021 “Opium poppy” means the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L., except its seeds.
- § 11022 “Person” means individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability…
- § 11023 “Pharmacy” has the same meaning as provided in Section 4035 of the Business and Professions Code.
- § 11024 “Physician,” “dentist,” “podiatrist,” “pharmacist,” “veterinarian,” and “optometrist” means persons who are licensed to practice their respective professions…
- § 11025 “Poppy straw” means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy, after mowing.
- § 11026 “Practitioner” means any of the following: (a) A physician, dentist, veterinarian, podiatrist, or pharmacist acting within the scope of a project authorized…
- § 11027 (a) “Prescription” means an oral order or electronic transmission prescription for a controlled substance given individually for the person(s) for whom…
- § 11029 “Production” includes the manufacture, planting, cultivation, growing, or harvesting of a controlled substance.
- § 11029.5 “Security printer” means a person approved to produce controlled substance prescription forms pursuant to Section 11161.5.
- § 11030 “Ultimate user” means a person who lawfully possesses a controlled substance for his own use or for the use of a member of his household or for administering…
- § 11031 “Wholesaler” has the same meaning as provided in Section 4038 of the Business and Professions Code.
- § 11032 If reference is made to the term “narcotics” in any law not in this division, unless otherwise expressly provided, it means those controlled substances…
- § 11033 As used in this division, except as otherwise defined, the term “isomer” includes optical and geometrical (diastereomeric) isomers.