Title 11, Criminal Law

(a) Except as authorized in AS 17.30 and AS 17.38, a person commits the crime of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the fifth degree if the person (1) manufactures or delivers, or possesses with the intent to manufacture or deliver, one or more preparations, compounds…

(a) Except as authorized in AS 17.30 or AS 17.38, a person commits the crime of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the sixth degree if the person (1) uses or displays any amount of a schedule VIA controlled substance; (2) possesses one or more preparations, compounds,…

For purposes of calculating the aggregate weight of a live marijuana plant, the aggregate weight shall be one-sixth of the measured weight of the marijuana plant after the roots of the marijuana plant have been removed.

(a) In a prosecution under AS 11.71.030 — 11.71.060 charging the manufacture, delivery, possession, possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, use, or display of a schedule VIA controlled substance, it is an affirmative defense that the defendant is a patient, or the prima…

(a) The Controlled Substances Advisory Committee is established in the Department of Law. The committee consists of (1) the attorney general or the attorney general's designee; (2) the commissioner of family and community services or the commissioner's designee; (3) the commissio…

The committee shall (1) advise the governor of the need to add, delete, or reschedule substances in the schedules in AS 11.71.140 — 11.71.190; (2) recommend regulations for adoption by the Board of Pharmacy to prevent excessive prescription of controlled substances and the divers…

(a) If, after considering the factors set out in (c) of this section, the committee decides to recommend that a substance should be added to, deleted from, or rescheduled in a schedule of controlled substances under AS 11.71.140 — 11.71.190, the governor shall introduce legislati…

(a) The attorney general may, by regulation, schedule a substance under this chapter regardless of whether the substance is substantially similar to a controlled substance listed in AS 11.71.140 — 11.71.180, if the attorney general finds that scheduling the substance on an emerge…

(a) A substance shall be placed in schedule IA if it is found under AS 11.71.120(c) to have the highest degree of danger or probable danger to a person or the public. (b) Schedule IA includes, unless specifically excepted or listed in another schedule, any of the following substa…

(a) A substance shall be placed in schedule IIA if it is found under AS 11.71.120(c) to have a degree of danger or probable danger to a person or the public which is less than substances listed in schedule IA, but higher than substances listed in schedule IIIA. (b) Schedule IIA i…

(a) A substance shall be placed in schedule IIIA if it is found under AS 11.71.120(c) to have a degree of danger or probable danger to a person or the public less than the substances listed in schedule IIA but higher than substances listed in schedule IVA. (b) Schedule IIIA inclu…

(a) A substance shall be placed in schedule IVA if it is found under AS 11.71.120(c) to have a degree of danger or probable danger to a person or the public which is less than the substances listed in schedule IIIA, but higher than the substances listed in schedule VA. (b) Schedu…

(a) A substance shall be placed in schedule VA if it is found under AS 11.71.120(c) to have a degree of danger or probable danger to a person or the public which is less than substances listed in schedule IVA, but higher than substances listed in schedule VIA. (b) Schedule VA inc…

(a) A substance shall be placed in schedule VIA if it is found under AS 11.71.120(c) to have the lowest degree of danger or probable danger to a person or the public. (b) Marijuana is a schedule VIA controlled substance.

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a substance the manufacture, distribution, dispensing, or possession of which is explicitly exempt from criminal penalty under federal law is exempt from the application of this chapter and AS 17.30. This exemption includes any substa…

Listed chemicals are chemicals that are used in manufacturing a controlled substance in violation of this chapter. Listed chemicals include (1) anthranilic acid, its esters, and its salts; (2) benzaldehyde; (3) benzyl cyanide; (4) ephedrine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts …

(a) A person commits the crime of purchase or receipt of restricted amounts of certain listed chemicals if the person purchases or receives more than nine grams of the following listed chemical, its salts, isomers, or salts of isomers within any 30-day period: (1) ephedrine under…

A penalty imposed for violation of this chapter is in addition to, and not in place of, any other civil or administrative penalty or sanction otherwise authorized by law.

A person convicted of violating a provision of this chapter may, when the violation relates to that person's own personal use of a controlled substance, be committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections for rehabilitative treatment for not to exceed one year. Such trea…

(a) A person may not be prosecuted for a violation of AS 11.71.040(a)(3), (4), or (12), 11.71.050(a)(4) or (5), or 11.71.060(a)(1) or (2) if that person (1) sought, in good faith, medical or law enforcement assistance for another person who the person reasonably believed was expe…

(a) In a prosecution for the possession of a schedule IA, IIA, IIIA, IVA, or VA controlled substance under this chapter, it is not a defense that the substance was possessed in less than a usable quantity. It is sufficient to support a conviction that there is a sufficient quanti…

No liability is imposed by this chapter upon a public servant acting within the scope and authority of the public servant's employment.

Whenever a provision of this chapter defining an offense requires a determination of an amount, it is not a defense to the lowest class of offense established by the evidence that the amount in question was equal to or larger than the amount which would make the offense a higher …

It is not necessary for the state to negate an exemption or exception provided for in this chapter in a complaint, information, indictment, or other pleading or at a trial, hearing, or other proceeding under this chapter or AS 17.30. The defendant has the burden of proving by a p…

Information communicated to a physician or other licensed practitioner in an effort to unlawfully procure a controlled substance or to unlawfully procure the administration of a controlled substance is not a privileged communication.

In this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, (1) “administer” means the direct application of a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means into the body of a patient or research subject by (A) a practitioner or, in the…