Public Health Law § 3300-a · Title 1. General Provisions
Legislative purposes
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Law content up to date as of October 9, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
§ 3300-a. Legislative purposes. The purposes of this article are:
1. to combat illegal use of and trade in controlled substances; and
2. to allow legitimate use of controlled substances in health care, including palliative care; veterinary care; research and other uses authorized by this article or other law; under appropriate regulation and subject to this article, title eight of the education law, and other applicable law.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Law content up to date as of October 9, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
- Official file
- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/PBH3300-A
- Text hash
- sha256 a22fd230685cf1cb9893dd4f4a110c894c0698108c1d23ee8a2c828313118eae
- Composed by
- gen_ny_statutes.py 2026-11-10: the Senate's Open Legislation law tree (GET /api/3/laws/<ID>?full=true) read in document order; the Senate's PDF of the whole law (GET /pdf/laws/<ID>?full=true), read with PDFium, prints the same words in the same order
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.