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Section 952. Importation of Controlled Substances
Controlled substances in schedules I or II and narcotic drugs in schedules III, IV, or V;
exceptions
(a) 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.
Nonnarcotic controlled substances in schedules III, IV, or V
(b) 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.
Coca leaves
(c) 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.
(Pub.L. 91-513, Title III, Section 1002, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1285; Pub.L. 95-633, Title I,
Section 105, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3772; Pub.L. 98-473, Title II, Sections 519-521, Oct. 12,
1984, 98 Stat. 2075.)
EDITORIAL NOTES
References in Text. Schedules I, II, III, IV, and V of subchapter I of this chapter, referred to in
subsecs. (a) and (b), are set out in section 812(c) of this title.
Code of Federal Regulations
Inspection, search and seizure, see 19 CFR 162.0 et seq.
Policies and procedures, see 21 CFR 1312.01 et seq. Back
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