2023 Laws not yet authenticated through a Commencement Order

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

3.   Application

The drugs to which these Regulations apply are—

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    (a)   morphine, cocaine, (including synthetic cocaine), ecgonine, diacetylmorphine (commonly known as diamorphine or heroin) and their respective salts, medicinal opium, and any extract or tincture of Indian hemp, and any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of diacetylmorphine or of the other esters of morphine, and any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of ecgonine or of the esters of ecgonine; for the purpose of the foregoing provision the expression “ecgonine” means laevo-ecgonine and includes any derivatives of ecgonine from which it may be recovered industrially, and the percentage in the case of morphine shall be calculated as in respect of anhydrous morphine;

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    (b)   dihydrohydroxycodeinone, dihydrocodeinone, dihydro-morphinone, acetyldihydrocodeinone, dihydromorphine, their esters and the salts of any of these substances and of their esters morphine-N-oxide (commonly known as genomorphine), the morphine-N-oxide derivatives, and any other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives;

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    (c)   thebaine and its salts, and benzylmorphine and the other esters of morphine and their respective salts;

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    (d)   any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of any of the substances mentioned in the above paragraphs (b) or (c).