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2017 Maryland Code
Criminal Law
Title 5 - Controlled Dangerous Substances, Prescriptions, and Other Substances
Subtitle 4 - Schedules
§ 5-405. Schedule IV
Universal Citation: MD Crim Law Code § 5-405 (2017)
- (a) In general. -- Schedule IV consists of each controlled dangerous substance:
- (1) listed in this section;
- (2) added to Schedule IV by the Department under § 5-202(b) of this title; or
- (3) designated as a Schedule IV controlled dangerous substance by the federal government unless the Department objects under § 5-202(f) of this title.
- (b) Core substances. -- Substances listed in Schedule IV include a material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any quantity of the following substances having a potential for abuse associated with a depressant effect on the central nervous system:
- (1) barbital;
- (2) bromazepam;
- (3) camazepam;
- (4) chloral betaine;
- (5) chloral hydrate;
- (6) ethchlorvynol;
- (7) chlordiazepoxide;
- (8) clobazam;
- (9) clonazepam;
- (10) clorazepate;
- (11) clotiazepam;
- (12) cloxazolam;
- (13) delorazepam;
- (14) diazepam;
- (15) estazolam;
- (16) ethinamate;
- (17) ethylloflazepate;
- (18) fludiazepam;
- (19) flunitrazepam;
- (20) flurazepam;
- (21) halazepam;
- (22) haloxazolam;
- (23) ketazolam;
- (24) loprazolam;
- (25) lorazepam;
- (26) lormetazepam;
- (27) mebutamate;
- (28) medazepam;
- (29) methohexital;
- (30) meprobamate;
- (31) methylphenobarbital;
- (32) nimetazepam;
- (33) nitrozepam;
- (34) nordiazepam;
- (35) oxazepam;
- (36) oxazolam;
- (37) paraldehyde;
- (38) petrichloral;
- (39) phenobarbital;
- (40) pinazepam;
- (41) prazepam;
- (42) temazepam;
- (43) tetrazepam; and
- (44) triazolam.
- (c) Fenfluramine. -- Substances listed in Schedule IV include:
- (1) a material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains fenfluramine; and
- (2) if its existence is possible:
- (i) a salt of fenfluramine;
- (ii) an optical, position, or geometric isomer of fenfluramine; and
- (iii) a salt of an isomer of fenfluramine.
- (d) Stimulants. -- Substances listed in Schedule IV include a material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any quantity of the following substances having a potential for abuse associated with a stimulant effect on the central nervous system:
- (1) diethylpropion;
- (2) pemoline, including organometallic complexes and their chelates; and
- (3) phentermine.
- (e) Exemptions. -- By regulation, the Department may exempt from this section a compound, mixture, or preparation that contains a depressant substance listed in subsection (b) of this section if:
- (1) the compound, mixture, or preparation contains an active medicinal ingredient that does not have a depressant effect on the central nervous system; and
- (2) the admixtures are included in combinations, quantity, proportion, or concentration that vitiate the potential for abuse of the substances that have a depressant effect on the central nervous system.
- (f) Required factors for adding substance. -- The Department may not add a substance to Schedule IV under § 5-202 of this title unless the Department finds that:
- (1) the substance has a low potential for abuse relative to the substances listed in Schedule III;
- (2) the substance has currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States; and
- (3) abuse of the substance may lead to limited physical dependence or psychological dependence relative to the substances in Schedule III.
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