Chap. 0305 An Act making clear that marihuana or marijuana is subject to certain laws relating to narcotic drugs.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The paragraph of section one hundred and ninety-seven of chapter ninety-four of the General Laws defining "Narcotic drug", as amended by section one of chapter four hundred and twelve of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-five, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "cannabis" in the seventh and eighth lines the following:- (sometimes called marihuana or marijuana), - so as to read as follows:-"Narcotic drug", coca leaves, cocaine, alpha or beta eucaine, or any synthetic substitute for them or any salts, compound or derivative thereof except decocainized coca leaves and preparations thereof, opium, morphine, heroin, codeine, or any preparation thereof or any salt, compound or derivative of the same; and, subject to section two hundred and six, cannabis (sometimes called marihuana or marijuana), including (a) the dried flowering or fruiting tops of the pistillate plant cannabis sativa L., from which the resin has not been extracted, (b) the resin extracted from such tops, and (c) every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such resin, or of such tops from which the resin has not been extracted.

Section 2. Said section one hundred and ninety-seven is hereby further amended by striking out the fourth paragraph, as appearing in the Tercentenary Edition, and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph: -

"Opium", "morphine", "heroin", "codeine", "cocaine", and "cannabis" (sometimes called marihuana or marijuana), as used in statutes'or in complaints or indictments include any synthetic substitute for such drugs or any salts, compounds, derivatives or preparations thereof, except de-cocainized coca leaves and preparations thereof.

Approved May 20, 1943.