(a) No person shall possess, sell, offer for sale, use, distribute, administer, dispense, prescribe or give away any narcotic, narcotic drugs, marihuana or other controlled substance, as defined in M.C.L.A. 333.7201 et seq., as amended. However, nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the possession, sale, offering for sale, distributing, administering, dispensing or prescribing of any of the drugs or their derivatives mentioned in this section in the manner and under the circumstances provided in division (b) below.
(b) A manufacturer, wholesaler, pharmacist, medical doctor, osteopathic physician, dentist, veterinarian, chiropodist or public or private hospital, sanitarium or institution maintained or conducted in whole or in part for the treatment of disability, disease, inebriety or drug addiction may purchase, receive, possess, sell, distribute, prescribe, administer or dispense the narcotic and dangerous drugs, controlled substances and marihuana described in division (a) above, provided that he, she or it has complied with all provisions as required by the United States Internal Revenue Code, as the same now exists or may be hereafter amended, and M.C.L.A. 333.7201 et seq., as amended. No medical doctor, osteopathic physician or other person specified in this section, in any manner authorized to prescribe narcotic or dangerous drugs, shall prescribe such drugs for his or her own use, nor shall any druggist honor such a prescription. All narcotic or dangerous drugs obtained pursuant to this section shall be kept in the original package or container in which they were received, but this requirement shall not be construed to apply to any duly licensed medical doctor, osteopathic physician, dentist, veterinarian or chiropodist, or to any authorized person acting directly under his or her supervision or control.
(c) Any fraud, scheme, device, trick, deceit, misrepresentation, subterfuge or other form or concealment for the purpose of obtaining money or any other thing of value by the sale, furnishing, supplying or giving away of any substance represented to be marihuana or a drug as described in division (a) above, when the same may or may not be such a drug, shall be deemed a violation of this section.
(Ord. 113, passed 10-9-1977)