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(f) "Manufacturer" means a person who plants, cultivates, harvests, processes, <br />makes, prepares or otherwise engages in any part of the production of a <br />controlled substance by propagation, compounding, conversion or processing, <br />either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, or <br />independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of <br />extraction and chemical synthesis and includes any packaging or repackaging <br />of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container and other activities <br />incident to production, except that a "manufacturer" does not include a <br />pharmacist who prepares, compounds, packages or labels a controlled <br />substance as an incident to dispensing a controlled substance in accordance <br />with a prescription and in the usual course of professional practice. <br />(g) Except as provided in subsection (g)(2) hereof: <br />(1) "Marihuana" means all parts of a plant of the genus cannabis, whether <br />growing or not, the seeds of a plant of that type; the resin extracted <br />from a part of a plant of that type; and every compound, manufacture, <br />salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of a plant of that type or of its <br />seeds or resin. "Marihuana" does not include the mature stalks of the <br />plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oils or cake made from the seeds <br />of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, <br />mixture, or preparation of the mature stalks, except the resin extracted <br />from the mature stalks, fiber, oil or cake, or the sterilized seed of the <br />plant that is incapable of germination. (ORC 3719.01) <br />(2) "Marihuana" does not include hashish. <br />(ORC 2925.01) <br />(h) (Reserved) <br />(i) "Official written order" means an order written on a form provided for that <br />purpose by the Director of the United States Drug Enforcement <br />Administration, under any laws of the United States making provision for the <br />order, if the order forms are authorized and required by Federal law. <br />(j) "Pharmacist" means a person registered with the State Board of Pharmacy as a <br />compounder and dispenser of drugs. <br />(k) "Pharmacy" means any area, room, rooms, place of business, department or <br />portion of any of the foregoing, where prescriptions are filled or where drugs, <br />dangerous drugs or poisons are compounded, sold, offered, or displayed for <br />sale, dispensed or distributed to the public. <br />(1) "Practitioner" means a person who is licensed pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter <br />4715, 4731 or 4741 and authorized by law to write prescriptions for drugs or <br />dangerous drugs. <br />(m) "Prescription" means a written or oral order for a controlled substance for the <br />use of a particular person or a particular animal given by a practitioner in the <br />course of professional practice and in accordance with the regulations <br />promulgated by the Director of the United States Drug Enforcement <br />Administration, pursuant to the Federal drug abuse control laws. <br />(n) "Sale" includes delivery, barter, exchange, transfer or gift, or offer thereof, <br />and each transaction of those natures made by any person, whether as <br />principal, proprietor, agent, servant or employee. <br />1998 Replacement <br />