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[CITE: 21USC959]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
              CHAPTER 13--DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
 
                    SUBCHAPTER II--IMPORT AND EXPORT
 
Sec. 959. Possession, manufacture, or distribution of controlled 
        substance
        

(a) Manufacture or distribution for purpose of unlawful importation

    It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture or distribute a 
controlled substance in schedule I or II or flunitrazepam or listed 
chemical--
        (1) intending that such substance or chemical will be unlawfully 
    imported into the United States or into waters within a distance of 
    12 miles of the coast of the United States; or
        (2) knowing that such substance or chemical will be unlawfully 
    imported into the United States or into waters within a distance of 
    12 miles of the coast of the United States.

(b) Possession, manufacture, or distribution by person on board aircraft

    It shall be unlawful for any United States citizen on board any 
aircraft, or any person on board an aircraft owned by a United States 
citizen or registered in the United States, to--
        (1) manufacture or distribute a controlled substance or listed 
    chemical; or
        (2) possess a controlled substance or listed chemical with 
    intent to distribute.

(c) Acts committed outside territorial jurisdiction of United States; 
        venue

    This section is intended to reach acts of manufacture or 
distribution committed outside the territorial jurisdiction of the 
United States. Any person who violates this section shall be tried in 
the United States district court at the point of entry where such person 
enters the United States, or in the United States District Court for the 
District of Columbia.

(Pub. L. 91-513, title III, Sec. 1009, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1289; 
Pub. L. 99-570, title III, Sec. 3161(a), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3207-
94; Pub. L. 104-237, title I, Sec. 102(a), (b), Oct. 3, 1996, 110 Stat. 
3100; Pub. L. 104-305, Sec. 2(b)(2)(A), Oct. 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 3807.)

                       References in Text

    Schedules I and II, referred to in subsec. (a), are set out in 
section 812(c) of this title.


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-305 inserted ``or flunitrazepam'' 
after ``schedule I or II'' in introductory provisions.
    Pub. L. 104-237, Sec. 102(a), inserted ``or listed chemical'' after 
``schedule I or II'' in introductory provisions and ``or chemical'' 
after ``substance'' in pars. (1) and (2).
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-237, Sec. 102(b), inserted ``or listed 
chemical'' after ``controlled substance'' in pars. (1) and (2).
    1986--Pub. L. 99-570 designated first sentence as subsec. (a) and 
inserted ``or into waters within a distance of 12 miles of the coast of 
the United States'' in pars. (1) and (2), added subsec. (b), and 
designated last two sentences as subsec. (c).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 960 of this title; title 18 
sections 5032, 5038; title 28 section 994.
