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Section 112a - Wrongful Use, Possession, Manufacturing, Distribution, and Importing of Controlled Substances

MA Gen L ch 33a § 112a (2019) (N/A)
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Article 112A. Wrongful use, possession, manufacturing, distribution, and importing of controlled substances.

(a) A person subject to this code who wrongfully uses, possesses, manufactures, distributes, imports into the customs territory of the United States, exports from the United States or introduces into an installation, vessel, vehicle or aircraft used by or under the control of the armed forces of the United States or of any state military force a substance described in subsection (b) shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

(b) The following substances shall be subject to the punishment referred to in subsection (a):

(1) opium, heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, lysergic acid diethylamide, methamphetamine, phencyclidine, barbituric acid and marijuana and any compound or derivative of any such substance;

(2) any substance not specified in clause (i) that is listed on a schedule of controlled substances prescribed by the President of the United States for the purposes of the Uniform Code of Military Justice of the Armed Forces of the United States in 10 U.S.C. section 801, et seq.; and

(3) any other substance not specified in clause (i) or contained on a list prescribed by the President of the United States under clause (ii) that is listed in schedules I to V, inclusive, in the schedules of controlled substances under section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. section 812.

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Section 112a - Wrongful Use, Possession, Manufacturing, Distribution, and Importing of Controlled Substances