2005 Rhode Island Code - § 21-28-3.10 — Authorized sales by manufacturers and wholesalers on official written orders.

    A duly licensed manufacturer or wholesaler may sell and distribute controlled substances on official written orders to any of the following persons:

   (1) To a manufacturer or wholesaler;

   (2) To a practitioner;

   (3) To a person in charge of a hospital, but only for use by or in that hospital;

   (4) To a person in charge of a laboratory, but only for use by or in that laboratory;

   (5) To any other person lawfully permitted to possess controlled substances under federal law.