195.050
NARCOTIC NEWS
Drug Law in Missouri 195.050
Controlled substances, legal sales, how made--records required to be kept.
A duly registered manufacturer or wholesaler may sell controlled substances to
any of the following persons:

(1) To a manufacturer, wholesaler, or pharmacy;

(2) To a physician, dentist, podiatrist or veterinarian;

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

(4) To a person in charge of a laboratory, but only for use in that laboratory for
scientific and medical purposes.

2. A duly registered manufacturer or wholesaler may sell controlled substances
to any of the following persons:

(1) On a special written order accompanied by a certificate of exemption, as
required by federal laws, to a person in the employ of the United States
government or of any state, territorial, district, county, municipal or insular
government, purchasing, receiving, possessing, or dispensing controlled
substances by reason of his official duties;

(2) To a master of a ship or person in charge of any aircraft upon which no
physician is regularly employed, for the actual medical needs of persons on
board such ship or aircraft, when not in port; provided, such controlled
substances shall be sold to the master of such ship or person in charge of
such aircraft only in pursuance of a special order form approved by a
commissioned medical officer or acting surgeon of the United States Public
Health Service;

(3) To a person in a foreign country if the provisions of federal laws are
complied with.

3. An official written order for any controlled substance listed in Schedules I and
II shall be signed in duplicate by the person giving the order or by his duly
authorized agent. The original shall be presented to the person who sells or
dispenses the controlled substance named therein. In event of the acceptance
of such order by the person, each party to the transaction shall preserve his
copy of such order for a period of two years in such a way as to be readily
accessible for inspection by any public officer or employee engaged in the
enforcement of sections 195.005 to 195.425. It shall be deemed a compliance
with this subsection if the parties to the transaction have complied with federal
laws, respecting the requirements governing the use of order forms.

4. Possession of or control of controlled substances obtained as authorized by
this section shall be lawful if in the regular course of business, occupation,
profession, employment, or duty of the possessor.

5. A person in charge of a hospital or of a laboratory, or in the employ of this
state or of any other state, or of any political subdivision thereof, and a master
or other proper officer of a ship or aircraft, who obtains controlled substances
under the provisions of this section or otherwise, shall not administer, nor
dispense, nor otherwise use such drugs, within this state, except within the
scope of his employment or official duty, and then only for scientific or
medicinal purposes and subject to the provisions of sections 195.005 to
195.425.

6. Every person registered to manufacture, distribute or dispense controlled
substances under sections 195.005 to 195.425 shall keep records and
inventories of all such drugs in conformance with the record keeping and
inventory requirements of federal law, and in accordance with any additional
regulations of the department of health and senior services.

7. Manufacturers and wholesalers shall keep records of all narcotic and
controlled substances compounded, mixed, cultivated, grown, or by any other
process produced or prepared, and of all controlled substances received and
disposed of by them, in accordance with this section.

8. Apothecaries shall keep records of all controlled substances received and
disposed of by them, in accordance with the provisions of this section.

9. The form of records shall be prescribed by the department of health and
senior services.

(RSMo 1939 § 9836, A.L. 1971 H.B. 69, A.L. 1989 S.B. 215 & 58)
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