21 U.S.C. § 956
Exemption authority
United States · Title 21 — FOOD AND DRUGS · Status: effective
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- 21 U.S.C. § 956, Exemption authority, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/454701
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The Attorney General may by regulation except any compound, mixture, or preparation containing any depressant or stimulant substance listed in paragraph (a) or (b) of schedule III or in schedule IV or V from the application of all or any part of this subchapter if (1) the compound, mixture, or preparation contains one or more active medicinal ingredients not having a depressant or stimulant effect on the central nervous system, and (2) such ingredients are included therein in such combinations, quantity, proportion, or concentration as to vitiate the potential for abuse of the substances which do have a depressant or stimulant effect on the central nervous system.
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 The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999
- Controlled Substances Trafficking Prohibition ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally