21 U.S.C. § 843
Prohibited acts C
United States · Title 21 — FOOD AND DRUGS · Status: effective
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- 21 U.S.C. § 843, Prohibited acts C, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/454635
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It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally—
It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally to use any communication facility in committing or in causing or facilitating the commission of any act or acts constituting a felony under any provision of this subchapter or subchapter II. Each separate use of a communication facility shall be a separate offense under this subsection. For purposes of this subsection, the term “communication facility” means any and all public and private instrumentalities used or useful in the transmission of writing, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds of all kinds and includes mail, telephone, wire, radio, and all other means of communication.
Subparagraph (A) does not apply to material that either—
Any person who, with the intent to manufacture or to facilitate the manufacture of methamphetamine, violates paragraph (6) or (7) of subsection (a), shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more than 10 years, a fine under title 18, or both; except that if any person commits such a violation after one or more prior convictions of that person—
In addition to any other applicable penalty, any person convicted of a felony violation of this section relating to the receipt, distribution, manufacture, exportation, or importation of a listed chemical may be enjoined from engaging in any transaction involving a listed chemical for not more than ten years.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Psychotropic Substances Act of 1978House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- A joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1985, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Domestic Chemical Diversion Control Act of 1993House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
- Comprehensive Methamphetamine Control Act of 1996House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization ActHouse: 400–4Senate: no recorded tally
- PROTECT Act
- Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion ActHouse: 325–95Senate: no recorded tally