Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 27 > Article 1 - General Provisions

• Board: means the Arizona state board of pharmacy. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• Cannabis: means the following substances under whatever names they may be designated:

  (a) Marijuana. See Arizona Laws 36-2501

• Controlled substance: means a drug, substance or immediate precursor in schedules I through V of article 2 of this chapter and the rules adopted pursuant to article 2 of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• Department: means the department of public safety. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Drug enforcement administration: means the drug enforcement administration of the department of justice of the United States or its successor agency. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• Immediate precursor: means a substance that the board has found to be and by rule designates as being the principal compound commonly used or produced primarily for use and that is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a controlled substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail or limit manufacture. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Opiate: means any substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug having addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• Opium poppy: means the plant of the genus papaver, except its seeds. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Poppy straw: means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy after mowing. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, means any state, district, commonwealth, territory or insular possession of the United States and any area subject to the legal authority of the United States of America. See Arizona Laws 36-2501
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215