DISTRIBUTE and DISTRIBUTOR

"Distribute" means to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance.

"Distributor" means a person who distributes and includes a wholesaler who is a person supplying or distributing controlled drugs which he himself has not produced or prepared to hospitals, clinics, practitioners, pharmacies, other wholesalers, manufacturers and federal, state and municipal agencies.

Source:  General Statutes § 21a-240 (15) and (16) (applies to Chapter 420b:  Dependency Producing Drugs, §§ 21a-240 -- 21a-283a).

Commentary:  See Drug Transactions in Introduction to Drugs.

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