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 70 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 764-JULY 24, 1956

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(1) such compound, mixture, or preparation of barbituric acid, its salts and derivatives shall be declared by rule or regulation duly promulgated by the Commissioners after reasonable public notice and opportunity for hearing to have or to contain no habit-forming properties and not to have a dangerously toxic or hypnotic or somnifacient effect on the body of a human or animal; or (2) such compound, mixture, or preparation of amphetamine, desoxyephedrine, phenolethylamine, or their salts or derivatives shall be found and declared by rule or regulation duly promulgated by the Commissioners after reasonable public notice and opportunity for hearing to contain in addition to such drug or its salts and derivatives some other drug or drugs causing it to possess other than an excessively stimulating effect upon the central nervous system and to have no habit-forming properties or dangerously toxic effect upon the body of a human or animal. EXEMPIIOX o r PERSONS

SEC. 205. The provisions of subparagraphs (1)(A) and (1)(D) and paragraph (4) of section 203(a) of this title shall not be applicable (1) to the delivery of dangerous drugs to persons included in any of the classes hereinafter named, or to agents or employees of such persons, for use in the normal or usual course of their business or practice or in the performance of their official duties, as the case may be; or (2) to the possession of dangerous drugs by such persons or their agents or employees for such use: (A) Pharmacists. (B) Practitioners. (C) Persons who procure dangerous drugs (i) for handling by or under the supervision of pharmacists or practitioners, or (ii) for the purpose of lawful research, teaching, or testing and not for resale. (D) Hospitals which procure dangerous drugs for lawful administration or use by practitioners. (E) Laboratories which procure dangerous drugs for lawful medical and scientific purposes. (F) Officers or employees of appropriate enforcement agencies of Federal, State, District of Columbia, or local governments, pursuant to their official duties. (G) Manufacturers and wholesalers. (H) Manufacturers' representatives and drug salesmen. (I) Carriers and warehousemen. RECORDS

SEC. 206. (a) Persons (other than carriers and practitioners) listed in paragraphs (A) through (I) of section 205 of this title shall— (1) make, within thirty days after the effective date of this title, and biennially thereafter, a complete record of all stocks of dangerous drugs on hand, such records to be held for a period of two years, and (2) retain all such commercial or other records, including invoices, relating to dangerous drugs received or maintained by them in the course of their business or occupation, or as required by this title, for not less than two calendar years immediately following the date of such record. (b) Pharmacists shall, in addition to complying with the provisions of subsection (a) hereof, retain each prescription or notation of sale to practitioners for a dangerous drug received by them, for

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