State v. Klinck

Effective July 1, 1976, the Ohio General Assembly adopted Am. Sub. H.B. No. 300 (136 Ohio Laws, Part II, 2311) to comprehensively revise Ohio’s drug abuse prevention and control laws and to bring them into conformity with the Federal Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (“federal Act”).

The provisions of Ohio’s Uniform Controlled Substances Act (“Ohio Act”), R.C. Chapter 3719, parallel those of the federal Act, codified at Section 801 et seq., Title 21, U.S. Code.

R.C. 3719.43 delegates quasi-legislative authority to the Attorney General of the United States, as follows:

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