By Leslie A King, John Ramsey, Leslie Iversen, Geoffrey Phillips
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However, once an API is converted into a medicinal product then it becomes subject to the Medicines Act, 1968. This was introduced following a review of legislation prompted by the thalidomide tragedy in the 1960s. It brought together most of the previous legislation on medicines and introduced a number of other legal provisions for the control of medicines. The Act divided medicinal drugs into three categories, depending mainly on the dangers they posed and the risk of misuse. The categories are: Prescription Only Medicines (POM), which may be sold or supplied to the public only on a practitioner’s prescription.
Structurally derived from . . an N-alkylphenethylamine . . by substitution in the ring . . with . . alkylenedioxy . . substituents’’. LSD is listed specifically under the approved name lysergide. Although cannabis and cannabis resin are distinct entities, it is sometimes convenient to describe them both under the collective term ‘‘cannabis’’. Similarly, ‘‘cannabinols’’ is used to mean cannabinol and cannabinol derivatives. A distinction is only made in the text where legal or chemical aspects need to be identified.
The current UK legislation is the Poisons Act 1972 and the Poisons Rules 1982 (as amended). The Act was designed to guard against the misuse by accident, inadvertence or criminal design of nonmedicinal poisons to which the public need to have access. Substances considered as poisons are listed in the Poisons Rules. According to Section 2 of the Act, Part 1 poisons may only be sold by a pharmacist, whereas Part II poisons may be sold by a seller who has registered with the local authority. The Act sets out the requirement for storage, packaging, labelling and the documentation of all sales.