(humanities): 2009 - 2011 - University of Ghana

INTERPRETATION OF THIS PART
In this part of this Schedule-
"Coca leaves" means the leaves of any plant of the family of the Erythroxylaceae from which cocaine
can be extracted either directly or by chemical transformation; "ecgonine" means leavoecgonine and
includes any derivatives of ecgonine from which it may be recovered industrially; "medicinal opium"
means raw opium which has undergone the processes necessary to adapt it for medicinal use in
accordance with the requirements of the authorized pharmacopoeia, whether it is in the form of
powder or is granulated or is in any other form, and whether or not it is mixed with neutral
substances; "raw opium" includes powdered or granulated opium, but does not include
medicinalopium, and for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, percentages, in the case of
morphine, shall be calculated as in respect of anhydrous morphine and, in the case of liquid
preparations, shall, unless regulations otherwise prescribe, be calculated on the basis that a
preparation containing one per cent of a substance means a preparation in which one gram of the
substance, if a solid, or one millilitre of the substance, if a liquid, is contained in every one hundred
millilitres of the preparation, and so in proportion for any greater or less percentage.
PART VI - FURTHER RESTRICTIONS ON NARCOTICS
47. (Possession of narcotics. Amended by Act 222[c].)
No person shall have in his possession without lawful excuse, proof of which shall be on
him, any opium or Indian hemp of any species or description whatsoever or any residue
from the smoking thereof.
48. (Smoking of opium or Indian hemp.) No person shall-
(a) smoke opium or Indian hemp or frequent any place used for the smoking thereof; or
(b) permit premises owned or occupied by him to be used by persons smoking opium or
Indianhemp;
(c) have in his possession pipes or other utensils for use in connection with the smoking of
opium or Indian hemp.
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