S.I. No. 30/1979 - Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order, 1979.

S.I. No. 30 of 1979.

MISUSE OF DRUGS (DESIGNATION) ORDER, 1979.

The Minister for Health, being of the opinion that it is in the public interest for the manufacture, production, preparation, sale, supply, distribution and possession of the drugs specified in the Schedule hereto to be unlawful except for the purposes of research or of forensic analysis and for it to be unlawful for any person who is either a practitioner or a pharmacist to have in his possession or to do in relation to the drugs specified in the said Schedule any of the things mentioned in section 5 (2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977 (No. 12 of 1977) except under a licence or other authority issued by the said Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 13 of the said Act hereby orders as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order, 1979.

2. The drugs specified in the Schedule hereto are hereby designated as drugs to which subsection (1) of section 13 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977 , applies.

3. This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of May, 1979.

SCHEDULE

1. The following substances and products, namely:—

Bufotenine.

Cannabinol, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin.

Cannabinol derivatives.

Cannabis and cannabis resin.

Coca leaf.

Lysergamide.

Lysergide and other N-alkyl derivatives of lysergamide.

Mescaline.

Raw opium.

Concentrate of poppy-straw.

Psilocin.

N, N-Diethyltryptamine.

N, N-Dimethyltryptamine.

2, 5-Dimethoxy-a 4-dimethyl-phenethylamine.

2. Any stereoisomeric form of a substance specified in paragraph 1 of this Schedule.

3. Any ester or ether of a substance specified in paragraph 1 or 2 of this Schedule.

4. Any salt of a substance specified in any of paragraphs 1, 2 or 3 of this Schedule.

5. Any preparation or other product containing any proportion of a substance or product specified in any of paragraphs 1, 2, 3 or 4 of this Schedule.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 8th day of February, 1979.

CHARLES J. HAUGHEY,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

Sections 4 (2) and 5 (2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977 , require provision to be made in regulations to allow the use for medical purposes of the drugs specified in the Schedule to the Act.

That obligation is removed, however, in the case of any such drug which is designated by order under section 13 of the Act as a drug to which that section is to apply. This Order designates for that purpose the drugs specified in the Schedule to the Order since it would not be in the public interest that they should be so available.

The drugs in question are not normally used for medical purposes e.g. mescaline, cannabis, psilocin, lysergide etc.