Scheduling or Legality of Tramadol in California?

Question by gordonliu: Scheduling or Legality of Tramadol in California?
Tramadol is NOT scheduled at a federal level that requires a prescription. This is a fact. feel free to look it up yourself.

here is a reference that supports my claim: http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drugs_concern/tramadol.htm (See the bottom paragraphs)

Scheduling of this drug is performed at the state level, with some states like Kentucky scheduling it as a drug with potential for abuse and thus requiring a prescription.

I have searched in vain for proof/evidence that California DOES schedule this drug in the same fashion.

As far as I can tell, possession/use of Tramadol in California is legal WITHOUT a prescription.

Now, this does not mean that you can buy it here without a prescription. Most pharmacies follow the strictest practices in the entire 50 states. They do this to maintain high standards to prevent abuse and to streamline their own corporate practices.

Of course, abuse of most substances can be considered illegal if it is possible to prove that the intent is to use the substance as a recreational drug (examples: paint, solvents, unscheduled plants like salvia divinorum, legal low-opiate content poppy varieties, etc).

I am not asking about use/abuse

I am asking about buying and possessing the drug

Best answer:

Answer by Don Rickles
Your claim is false. Scheduling of drugs is first done at the federal level. Tramadol is a schedule 6 medication indicating that it requires a valid prescription to buy or posses. The last paragraph states that it does not fall under the Controlled Substance Act which is the federal schedule for scheduled drugs <6. It states that Kansas and Kentucky have deemed it a schedule 4 which is completely in each states authority. A state can make a federal schedule more stricter, but they can not make it less strict.

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