Section 81
Saving of State and special laws.
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to narcotic drugs, to make stringent provisions for the control and regulation of operations relating to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances , to provide for the forfeiture of property derived from, or used in, illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, to implement the provisions of the International Conventions on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and for matters connected therewith.
Nothing in this Act or in the rules made thereunder shall
affect the validity of any Provincial Act or an Act of any State Legislature for the time being in force, or
of any rule made thereunder which imposes any restriction or provides for a punishment not imposed by
or provided for under this Act or imposes a restriction or provides for a punishment greater in degree than
a corresponding restriction imposed by or a corresponding punishment provided for by or under this Act
for the cultivation of cannabis plant or consumption of, or traffic in, any narcotic drug or psychotropic
substance within India.