A. Except as otherwise in this act specifically provided, this act shall not apply to the following cases: 1. Prescribing, administering, dispensing, or selling at retail not more than one of any of the following medicinal preparations that contain in thirty (30) milliliters or, if a solid or semisolid preparation, in one (1) avoirdupois ounce: a. not more than one hundred sixty (160) milligrams of opium; b. not more than twenty (20) milligrams of morphine or of any of its salts; or c. not more than eighty (80) milligrams of codeine or any of its salts. 2. Prescribing, administering, dispensing, or selling at retail of liniments, ointments, and other preparations, that are susceptible of external use only and that contain narcotic drugs in such combinations as to prevent their being readily extracted from such liniments, ointments, or preparations, except that this act shall apply to all liniments, ointments and other preparations that contain coca leaves in any quantity or combination. B. The exemptions authorized by subparagraphs 1 and 2 of subsection A of this section shall be subject to all of the conditions set out in this subsection. The exemptions authorized by subparagraph 3 of subsection A of this section shall not, however, be subject to the conditions set out in subparagraphs 1, 2 or 3 of this subsection, but shall be subject to subparagraph 4 of this subsection. 1. No person shall prescribe, administer, dispense, or distribute under the exemptions of this section, to any one person, or for the use of any one person or animal, any preparation or preparations included within this section, when he knows, or can by reasonable diligence ascertain, that such prescribing, administering, dispensing or distributing will provide the persons to whom or for whose use, or the owner of the animal for the use of which such preparation is prescribed, administered, dispensed, or distributed, within any forty-eight (48) consecutive hours, with more than three hundred twenty (320) milligrams of opium, or more than forty (40) milligrams of morphine or any of its salts, or more than one hundred sixty (160) milligrams of codeine or any of its salts, or will provide such person or the owner of such animal, within forty-eight (48) consecutive hours, with more than one preparation exempted by this section from the operation of this act. 2. This act shall not apply to any compound, mixture or preparation which contains not more than one (1) drachm of paregoric per thirty (30) milliliters. 3. The medicinal preparation, or the liniment, ointment, or other preparation susceptible of external use only, prescribed, administered, dispensed, or distributed, shall contain, in addition to the narcotic drug in it, some drug or drugs conferring upon it medicinal qualities other than those possessed by the narcotic drug alone. Such preparation shall be prescribed, administered, dispensed, and distributed in good faith as a medicine, and not for the purpose of evading the provisions of this act. 4. The provisions of Section 2-314 of this act shall apply to the preparations referred to in subsection A of this section. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the kind and quantity of any narcotic drug that may be prescribed, administered, dispensed, or distributed to any person or for the use of any person or animal when it is prescribed, administered, dispensed, or distributed in compliance with the general provisions of this act.
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