Chap. 212.——An ACT to prohibit the sale, purchase, use, possession, delivery,
distribution, transportation, growth, propagation or donation of drug known
as derivatives of plant cannabis sativa (L) and each sale, derivative, com-
pound, mixture or preparation thereof; and to provide punishment therefor.

{[S B 289]
Approved March 21, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation to purchase,
possess, sell, use, deliver, distribute, give away, grow, propagate, ex-
change or have under his control or in his possession, “cannabis,”
which includes the following substances under whatever name they
may be designated:

(a) Mariahuana in cigarette form, or the dried flowering or fruit-
ing tops or other parts of the pistillate or staminate plant cannabis
sativa (1.) or any other variety of cannabis from which the resin
(cannabine) or other active principles have not been extracted.
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(b) The resin or other active principles extracted from such tops or
other parts of the plants.

(c) Every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, nieterre or
preparation of such resin or other active principles or of such tops or
parts from which the resin and active principles have not been extracted.

All varieties of cannabis and mariahuana (when not used in ac-
cordance with a physician’s directions) are hereby declared dangerous,
detrimental to the public health and a nuisance, and their cultivation
or growth within the limits of the State of Virginia is hereby declared
unlawful and prohibited.

However, nothing in this act shall be construed as applying to
licensed growers, licensed manufacturers of drugs and medicinal sup-
plies, licensed wholesalers of drugs, owners of licensed pharmacies,
licensed hospitals or other licensed institutions for the care of the sick
under the supervision of a licensed physician, or to registered whole-
sale and retail pharmacists, or to licensed physicians, dentists and
veterinarians who are registered, licensed and authorized to practice
their professions under the laws of the State of Virginia when cannabis
(and similar plants) or the parts, preparations and compounds thereof
are grown, possessed, purchased, sold, delivered, distributed, transported
or prescribed for medicinal purposes.

Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this act
shall, upon conviction, be punished, for each offense, by imprisonment
in the penitentiary not exceeding ten years or not less than one year,
or by confinement in jail for not more than twelve months and by a
fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and
imprisonment, in the discretion of the court or jury.