law: Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
  2. Definitions
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
  (i) "addict" means a person addicted to any narcotic
  
  drug or psychotropic substance;
  (ii) "Board" means the Central Board of Excise and
  
  Customs constituted under the Central Boards of Revenue Act, 1963;
  (iii) "cannabis (hemp)" means-
  (a) charas, that is, the separated resin, in
  
  whatever form, whether crude or purified, obtained from the cannabis plant and
  
  also includes concentrated preparation and resin know as hashish oil or liquid
  
  hashish;
  (b) ganja, that is, the flowering or fruiting
  
  tops of the cannabis plant (excluding the seeds and leaves when not accompanied
  
  by the tops), by whatever name they may be know or designated; and
  (c) any mixture, with or without any neutral
  
  material, of any of the above forms of cannabis or cannabis or an drink
  
  prepared there from;
  (iv) "cannabis plant" means any plant of the genus
  
  cannabis;
  (v) "coca derivative" means-
  (a) crude cocaine, that is, any extract of
  
  coca leaf which can be used, directly or indirectly, for the manufacture of
  
  cocaine;
  (b) ecgonine and all the derivatives of
  
  ecgonine from which it can be recovered;
  (c) cocaine, that is, methyl ester of benzoyl-ecgonine
  
  and its salts; and
  (d) all preparations containing more than 0.1
  
  per cent. of cocaine;
  (vi) "coca leaf" means-
  (a) the leaf of the coca plant except a leaf
  
  from which all ecgonine cocaine and any other ecgonine alkaloids have been
  
  removed;
  (b) any mixture thereof with or without any
  
  neutral material, but does not include any preparation containing not more than
  
  0.1 per cent. of cocaine;
  (vii) "coca plant " means the plant of any species of
  
  the genus Errythroxylon;
   2  [(viia) "Controlled substance" means any
  
  substance which the Central Government may, having regard to the available
  
  information as to its possible use in the production or manufacture of narcotic
  
  drugs or psychotropic substances or to the provisions of any International Convention,
  
  by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a controlled
  
  substances;]
  (viii) "conveyance" means a conveyance of any
  
  description whatsoever and includes any aircraft, vehicle or vessel;
   3  [(viiia) "illicit traffic", in relation to
  
  narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, means-
  (i) cultivating any coca plant or gathering
  
  any portion of coca plant;
  (ii) cultivating the opium poppy or any
  
  cannabis plant;
  (iii) engaging in the production, manufacture,
  
  possession, sale, purchase, transportation, warehousing, concealment, use or
  
  consumption, import inter-State, export inter-State, import into India, export
  
  from India or transshipment, of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances;
  (iv) dealing in any activities in
  
  narcotic  drugs or psychotropic substances other than those referred to in
  
  sub-clauses (i) to (iii); or
  (v) handling or letting out any premises for
  
  the carrying on of any of the activities referred to in sub-clauses (i) to
  
  (iv), other than those permitted under this Act, or any rule or order made or
  
  any condition of any license, term or authorization issued, thereunder, and
  
  includes-
  (1) financing, directly or indirectly, any of
  
  the aforementioned activities;
  (2) abetting or conspiring in the furtherance
  
  of or in support of doing any of the aforementioned activities; and
  (3) harboring persons engaged in any of the
  
  aforementioned activities;]
  (ix) "International Convention" means-
  (a) the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs,
  
  1961 adopted by the United Nations Conference at New York in March, 1961;
  (b) the Protocol, amending the Convention
  
  mentioned in sub-clause (a), adopted by the United Nations Conference at Geneva
  
  in March, 1972;
  (c) the Convention on Psychotropic Substances,
  
  1971 adopted by the United Nations Conference at Vienna in February, 1971; and
  (d) any other international convention, or
  
  protocol or other instrument amending an international convention, relating to
  
  narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances which may be ratified or acceded to
  
  by India after the commencement of this Act;
  (x) "manufacture", in relation to narcotic drugs or
  
  psychotropic substances, includes-
  (1) all processes other than production by
  
  which such drugs or substances may be obtained;
  (2) refining of such drugs or substances;
  (3) transformation of such drugs or
  
  substances; and
  (4) making of preparation (otherwise than in a
  
  pharmacy on prescription) with or containing such drugs or substances;
  (xi) "manufactured drug" means-
  (a) all coca derivatives, medicinal cannabis,
  
  opium derivative and poppy straw concentrate;
  (b) any other narcotic substance or
  
  preparation which the Central Government may, having regard to the available
  
  information as to its nature or to a decision, if any, under any International
  
  Convention, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a
  
  manufactured drug;
  but does not include any narcotic substance or preparation which
  
  the Central Government may, having regard to the available information as to
  
  its nature or to a decision, if any, under any International Convention, by
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, declare not to be a manufactured drug;
  (xii) "medicinal cannabis". that is, medicinal hemp,
  
  means any extract or tincture of cannabis (hemp);
  (xiii) "Narcotics Commissioner" means the Narcotics
  
  Commissioner appointed under section 5;
  (xiv) "narcotic drug" means coca leaf, cannabis
  
  (hemp), opium, poppy straw and includes all manufactured drugs;
  (xv) "opium" means-
  (a) the coagulated juice of the opium poppy;
  
  and
  (b) any mixture, with or without any neutral
  
  material, of the coagulated juice of the opium poppy, but does not include any
  
  preparation containing not more than 0.2 per cent. of morphine;
  (xvi) "opium derivative" means-
  (a) medicinal opium, that is, opium which has undergone
  
  the processes necessary to adapt it for medicinal use in accordance with the
  
  requirements of the Indian Pharmacopoeia or any other pharmacopoeia notified in
  
  this behalf by the Central Government, whether in powder form or granulated or
  
  otherwise or mixed with neutral materials;
  (b) prepared opium, that is, any product of
  
  opium obtained by any series of operations designed to transform opium into an
  
  extract suitable for smoking and the dross or other residue remaining after
  
  opium is smoked;
  (c) phenanthrene alkaloids, namely, morphine,
  
  codeine, thebaine and their salts;
  (d) diacetylmorphine, that is, the alkaloid
  
  also known as dia-morphine or heroin and its salts; and
  (e) all preparations containing more than 0.2
  
  per cent. of morphine or containing any diacetylmorphine;
  (xvii) "opium poppy" means-
  (a) the plant of the species Papaver
  
  somniferum L.; and
  (b) the plant of any other species of Papaver
  
  from which opium or any phenanthrene alkaloid can be extracted and which the
  
  Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be
  
  opium poppy for the purposes of this Act;
  (xviii) "poppy straw" means all parts (except the
  
  seeds) of the opium poppy after harvesting whether in their original form or
  
  cut, crushed or powdered and whether or not juice has been extracted there
  
  from;
  (xix) "poppy straw concentrate" means the material
  
  arising when poppy straw has entered into a process for the concentration of
  
  its alkaloids;
  (xx) "preparation", in relation to a narcotic drug or
  
  psychotropic substance, means any one or more such drugs or substances in
  
  dosage form or any solution or mixture, in whatever physical state, containing
  
  one or more such drugs or substances;
  (xxi) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made
  
  under this Act;
  (xxii) "production" means the separation of opium,
  
  poppy straw, coca leaves or cannabis from the plants from which they are
  
  obtained;
  (xxiii) "psychotropic substance" means any substance,
  
  natural or synthetic, or any natural material or any salt or preparation of
  
  such substance or material included in the list of psychotropic substances
  
  specified in the Schedule;
  (xxiv) "to import inter-State" means to bring into a
  
  State or Union territory in India from another State or Union territory in
  
  India;
  (xxv) "to import into India", with its grammatical
  
  variations and cognate expressions, means to bring into India from a place
  
  outside India and includes the bringing into any port or airport or place in
  
  India of a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance intended to be taken out
  
  of India without being removed from the vessel, aircraft, vehicle or any other
  
  conveyance in which it is being carried.
  Explanation- For the purposes of this clause and clause
  
  (xxvi), "India" includes the territorial waters of India;
  (xxvi) "to export from India", with its grammatical
  
  variations and cognate expressions, means to take out of India to a place
  
  outside India;
  (xxvii) "to export inter-State" means to take out of a
  
  State or Union territory in India to another State or Union territory in India;
  (xxviii) "to transport" means to take from one place
  
  to another within the same State or Union territory;
   4  [(xxviiia) "use", in relation to narcotic drugs
  
  and psychotropic substances, means any kind of use except personal
  
  consumption;]
  (xxix) words and expressions used herein and not defined but
  
  defined in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 have the meanings respectively
  
  assigned to them in that Code.
  Explanation.- For the purposes of clauses (v), (vi), (xv)
  
  and (xvi) the percentages in the case of liquid preparations shall be
  
  calculated on the basis that a preparation containing one per cent. of a
  
  substance means a preparation in which one gram of substance, if solid, or one
  
  milliliter of substances, if 'liquid, is contained in every one hundred
  
  milliliter of the preparation and so on in proportion for any greater or less
  
  percentage:
  Provided that the Central Government may, having regard
  
  to the developments in the field of methods of calculating percentages in
  
  liquid preparations prescribe, by rules, any other basis which it may deem
  
  appropriate for such calculation.