(1) For offenses not involving marijuana, hashish, or hash oil:

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(i) by a practitioner as an incident to administering or dispensing of a controlled substance in the course of a professional practice; or

(ii) by a practitioner, or by the practitioner’s authorized agent under the practitioner’s supervision, for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale; or

(B) the organizing or supervising of an activity described in clause (A).

(2) For offenses involving marijuana, hashish, or hash oil:

(A) the preparation, compounding, conversion, or processing of marijuana, hashish, or hash oil, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the marijuana, hashish, or hash oil, or labeling or relabeling of its container. It does not include planting, growing, cultivating, or harvesting a plant, or the preparation, compounding, packaging, or labeling of marijuana, hashish, or hash oil:

(i) by a practitioner as an incident to lawfully administering or dispensing of marijuana, hashish, or hash oil in the course of a professional practice; or

(ii) by a practitioner, or by the practitioner’s authorized agent under the practitioner’s supervision, for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale; or

(B) the organizing or supervising of an activity described in clause (A).

As added by P.L.5-1988, SEC.198. Amended by P.L.165-1990, SEC.2; P.L.17-2001, SEC.18; P.L.158-2013, SEC.620.