Illinois Code § 208
Illinois Code § 208. Reproduced from the official Illinois Compiled Statutes, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 208.
(a) The controlled substances listed in this Section are included in Schedule III. (b) Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system, including its salts, isomers (whether optical position, or geometric), and salts of such isomers whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation; (1) Those compounds, mixtures, or preparations in dosage unit form containing any stimulant substances listed in Schedule II which compounds, mixtures, or preparations were listed on August 25, 1971, as excepted compounds under Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 308.32, and any other drug of the quantitative composition shown in that list for those drugs or which is the same except that it contains a lesser quantity of controlled substances; (2) Benzphetamine; (3) Chlorphentermine; (4) Clortermine; (5) Phendimetrazine. (c) Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances having a potential for misuse associated with a depressant effect on the central nervous system: (1) Any compound, mixture, or preparation containing amobarbital, secobarbital, pentobarbital or any salt thereof and one or more other active medicinal ingredients which are not listed in any schedule; (2) Any suppository dosage form containing amobarbital, secobarbital, pentobarbital or any salt of any of these drugs and approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration for marketing only as a suppository; (3) Any substance which contains any quantity of a derivative of barbituric acid, or any salt thereof: (3.1) Aprobarbital; (3.2) Butabarbital (secbutabarbital); (3.3) Butalbital; (3.4) Butobarbital (butethal); (4) Chlorhexadol; (5) Methyprylon; (6) Sulfondiethylmethane; (7) Sulfonethylmethane; (8) Sulfonmethane; (9) Lysergic acid; (10) Lysergic acid amide; (10.1) Tiletamine or zolazepam or both, or any salt of either of them. Some trade or other names for a tiletamine-zolazepam combination product: Telazol. Some trade or other names for Tiletamine: 2-(ethylamino)-2-(2-thienyl)-cyclohexanone. Some trade or other names for zolazepam: 4-(2-fluorophenyl)-6,8-dihydro-1,3,8-trimethylpyrazolo- [3,4-e], [1,4]-diazepin-7(1H)-one, and flupyrazapon. (11) Any material, compound, mixture or preparation containing not more than 12.5 milligrams of pentazocine or any of its salts, per 325 milligrams of aspirin; (12) Any material, compound, mixture or preparation containing not more than 12.5 milligrams of pentazocine or any of its salts, per 325 milligrams of acetaminophen; (13) Any material, compound, mixture or preparation containing not more than 50 milligrams of pentazocine or any of its salts plus naloxone HCl USP 0.5 milligrams, per dosage unit; (14) Ketamine; (15) Thiopental. (d) Nalorphine. (d.5) Buprenorphine. (e) Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing limited quantities of any of the following narcotic drugs, or their salts calculated as the free anhydrous base or alkaloid, as set forth below: (1) not more than 1.8 grams of codeine per 100 milliliters or not more than 90 milligrams per dosage unit, with an equal or greater quantity of an isoquinoline alkaloid of opium; (2) not more than 1.8 grams of codeine per 100 milliliters or not more than 90 milligrams per dosage unit, with one or more active non-narcotic ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts; (3) (blank); (4) (blank); (5) not more than 1.8 grams of dihydrocodeine per 100 milliliters or not more than 90 milligrams per dosage unit, with one or more active, non-narcotic ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts; (6) not more than 300 milligrams of ethylmorphine per 100 milliliters or not more than 15 milligrams per dosage unit, with one or more active, non-narcotic ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts; (7) not more than 500 milligrams of opium per 100 milliliters or per 100 grams, or not more than 25 milligrams per dosage unit, with one or more active, non-narcotic ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts; (8) not more than 50 milligrams of morphine per 100 milliliters or per 100 grams with one or more active, non-narcotic ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts. (f) Anabolic steroids, except the following anabolic steroids that are exempt: (1) Androgyn L.A.; (2) Andro-Estro 90-4; (3) depANDROGYN; (4) DEPO-T.E.; (5) depTESTROGEN; (6) Duomone; (7) DURATESTRIN; (8) DUO-SPAN II; (9) Estratest; (10) Estratest H.S.; (11) PAN ESTRA TEST; (12) Premarin with Methyltestosterone; (13) TEST-ESTRO Cypionates; (14) Testosterone Cyp 50 Estradiol Cyp 2; (15) Testosterone Cypionate-Estradiol Cypionate injection; and (16) Testosterone Enanthate-Estradiol Valerate injection. (g) Hallucinogenic substances. (1) Dronabinol (synthetic) in sesame oil and encapsulated in a soft gelatin capsule in a U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved product. Some other names for dronabinol: (6aR-trans)-6a,7,8,10a-tetrahydro- 6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6H-dibenzo (b,d) pyran-1-ol) or (-)-delta-9-(trans)-tetrahydrocannabinol. (2) (Reserved). (h) The Department may except by rule any compound, mixture, or preparation containing any stimulant or depressant substance listed in subsection (b) from the application of all or any part of this Act if the compound, mixture, or preparation contains one or more active medicinal ingredients not having a stimulant or depressant effect on the central nervous system, and if the admixtures are included therein in combinations, quantity, proportion, or concentration that vitiate the potential for misuse of the substances which have a stimulant or depressant effect on the central nervous system. (Source: P.A. 103-881, eff. 1-1-25.)
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- Citation: Illinois Compiled Statutes § 208
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- Code: Illinois Compiled Statutes
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