STATE OF NEW YORK
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4712
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 10, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law and the penal law, in relation to
synthetic cannabinoids
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3302 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 two new subdivisions 44 and 45 to read as follows:
3 44. "Synthetic cannabinoid" means any chemical compound that is chemi-
4 cally synthesized and:
5 (a) has been demonstrated to have a binding activity at one or more
6 cannabinoid receptors; or
7 (b) is a chemical isomer, salt or salt of an isomer of a compound that
8 has been demonstrated to have binding activity at one or more cannabi-
9 noid receptors.
10 "Synthetic cannabinoid" does not include any products that have been
11 approved for medical use by the United States Food and Drug Adminis-
12 tration.
13 45. "Synthetic cannabinoid analog" means any chemical that is substan-
14 tially similar in chemical structure to a chemical compound that has
15 been determined to have binding activity at one or more cannabinoid
16 receptors. It does not include any products that have been approved for
17 medical use by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
18 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 220.00 of the penal law, as amended by
19 chapter 1051 of the laws of 1973, is amended to read as follows:
20 6. "Marihuana" means "marihuana" [or], "concentrated cannabis",
21 "synthetic cannabinoid" or "synthetic cannabinoid analog" as those terms
22 are defined in section thirty-three hundred two of the public health
23 law.
24 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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