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S.D. Codified Laws § 34-20B-16

Substances included in Schedule II

Known as the State Drugs and Substances Control Act

The act spans §§ 34–34 (101 sections).

Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case State v. Grosh (1986)

Most recently applied in State v. Anderson (August 2025)

Source: SL 1970, ch 229, § 8 (b) (1); SDCL Supp, § 39-17-59; SL 1977, ch 315, § 4; SL 1978, ch 249, § 1; SL 1981, ch 13, § 9; SL 1981, ch 261, § 1; SL 1985, ch 278, § 51; SL 198…

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Any of the following substances, including their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers, is included in Schedule II except those narcotic drugs listed in other schedules, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis:

(1) Opium (except when it meets the requirements of subdivision 34-20B-23(7) or 34-20B-26(5)), coca leaves, and opiate;

(2) Any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium, coca leaves (including cocaine), or opiate, excluding apomorphine, dextrorphan, naloxone, naloxegol, naldemedine, nalbuphine, nalmefene, naltrexone, 6ß-naltrexol, and samidorphan;

(3) Any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation thereof that is chemically equivalent or identical with any of the substances referred to in subdivisions (1) and (2), except that these substances may not include decocainized coca leaves or extraction of coca leaves, which extractions do not contain cocaine or ecgonine; and may not include the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium;

(4) Opium poppy and poppy straw;

(5) Amphetamine;

(6) Methamphetamine;

(7) Amobarbital;

(8) Pentobarbital;

(9) Secobarbital;

(10) Methylphenidate;

(11) Phenmetrazine;

(12) Etorphine;

(13) Diprenorphine;

(14) Deleted by SL 2000, ch 170, § 1;

(15) Nabilone;

(16) Glutethimide;

(17) Phencyclidine immediate precursors:

(a) 1-phenylcyclohexylamine;

(b) 1-piperidinocyclohexanecarbonitrile (PCC);

(18) Lisdexamfetamine, its salts, isomers, and salts of its isomers;

(19) Tapentadol; and

(20) Dronabinol [(-)-delta-9-trans tetrahydrocannabinol] in an oral solution in a drug product approved for marketing by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.