CBD (cannabidiol) is a non-intoxicating cannabis compound widely sold in oils, edibles, and topicals, with one FDA-approved prescription form (Epidiolex) for certain epilepsies. Hemp-derived CBD has been federally legal since the 2018 Farm Bill, but a 2025 law redefining hemp by total THC takes effect November 12, 2026 and may sweep in some CBD products.
⏳Pending medical review. This page has not yet been checked by a clinician, so read it as general information, not medical advice.
Overview
CBD (cannabidiol) is one of the main compounds in cannabis, but unlike THC it does not produce a high. It is marketed widely as oils, gummies, capsules, and topical products for anxiety, pain, and sleep, though most such uses are not FDA-approved. One purified prescription form, Epidiolex, is FDA-approved to treat certain rare seizure disorders, which is the strongest evidence base for any CBD use.
Source: FDA; MedlinePlus; peer-reviewed literature (NIH/PMC)
Chemistry & mechanism of action
CBD's mechanism is complex and not fully understood. Unlike THC, it does not strongly activate the CB1 cannabinoid receptor, which is why it is non-intoxicating. Instead it interacts with a range of targets — including serotonin 5-HT1A receptors and the endocannabinoid system indirectly — and influences several drug-metabolizing liver enzymes, which is the basis of many of its drug interactions.
Source: peer-reviewed literature (NIH/PMC); FDA
Effects
CBD is generally reported to produce mild calming or anti-anxiety effects without intoxication. Common side effects, most clearly documented at the higher doses used medically, include drowsiness, diarrhea, changes in appetite, and fatigue. Effects from consumer products are inconsistent because potency and actual CBD content vary widely and are often mislabeled.
Source: FDA; peer-reviewed literature (NIH/PMC)
Risks & harms
CBD is not intoxicating and has a relatively favorable safety profile, but it is not risk-free. At higher doses it can cause liver enzyme elevations signaling potential liver injury, a risk flagged in the Epidiolex labeling. Its most important hazard is drug interactions: CBD inhibits liver enzymes that metabolize many medications, and can raise blood levels of drugs including certain blood thinners and anti-seizure medicines, potentially to dangerous levels — anyone on regular medication should treat this as a real interaction risk. The consumer market is poorly regulated: products are frequently mislabeled, containing more, less, or different cannabinoids than stated, and some have been found to contain THC (enough to cause intoxication or a positive drug test) or contaminants such as heavy metals or pesticides. Products are not a substitute for evidence-based medical treatment. Anyone with signs of liver problems (yellowing skin or eyes, severe abdominal pain) or a serious medication interaction should seek medical care; Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222 can advise on exposures. This page has not yet been medically reviewed.
Source: FDA; peer-reviewed literature (NIH/PMC); MedlinePlus
Legal status (US)
In the United States, hemp-derived CBD (from cannabis with no more than 0.3% delta-9 THC) has been federally legal since the 2018 Farm Bill removed hemp from the Controlled Substances Act, while CBD derived from marijuana remains federally controlled. The one FDA-approved CBD drug, Epidiolex, is not a controlled substance. Two changes matter: the FDA has stated CBD cannot lawfully be added to food or sold as a dietary supplement, and a 2025 federal law (effective November 12, 2026) redefines hemp using 'total THC' and excludes products over 0.4 mg total THC per container — which may pull some full-spectrum CBD products out of the legal hemp category. State laws also vary. This is a changing area; verify current federal and state law before relying on any status. This page has not yet been medically reviewed.
Source: FDA; DEA; US federal law (2018 Farm Bill; P.L. 119-37, eff. 2026-11-12); congress.gov
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Drug laws and enforcement change and vary by country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with the destination’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling — penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.
Before you travel
Verify current rules with the destination country’s official drug authority and your own country’s embassy before traveling. Find the destination’s U.S. embassy & official country guidance → Non-U.S. travelers: check your own government’s travel advisory and embassy.
If you’re detained or arrested abroad
Contact your own country’s embassy or consulate in the destination immediately, not the destination’s authorities. U.S. citizens: contact the nearest U.S. embassy/consulate and the U.S. State Department at +1-202-501-4444 (from abroad). If a U.S. citizen is arrested or detained abroad →
If an experience becomes overwhelming, the goal is to stay safe and let it pass, most difficult experiences ease as the drug wears off.
Get to a calm, safe space with someone you trust who is sober and can stay with you.
Cool down if you’re overheating, move somewhere cool, remove extra layers, rest. Overheating is especially a risk with stimulants and MDMA.
Sip water to thirst, but don’t over-hydrate. Drinking large amounts of plain water (especially after MDMA) can dangerously dilute your blood sodium (hyponatremia). Electrolytes help more than volume.
Slow your breathing, long, slow exhales help settle a racing heart and anxiety.
A sugary drink, fruit juice, or a snack can ease shakiness and the anxiety that comes with low blood sugar.
Do not take more, and do not add another substance to manage it. Redosing or adding something else (including a sedative like a benzodiazepine) can make things worse, not better.
With cannabis, anxiety or a racing heart usually pass with time. Sit somewhere calm, sip water, and rest, strong edibles in particular can take hours to ease.
Call 911 (or Poison Control, 1-800-222-1222) right away for chest pain, a very high body temperature, a seizure, unconsciousness, or severe confusion. These are medical emergencies, not something to wait out.
Source: general harm-reduction guidance from SAMHSA, NIH/NIDA, and MedlinePlus, in our own words. Draft, not yet medically reviewed.
Forensic dossier
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Imprint
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Scheduling & legal status
US schedule
Unknown — pending review
International
Unknown, pending review
Effects, risks & interactions
Effects
CBD is a major cannabis compound that, unlike THC, is essentially non-intoxicating — it does not produce a "high." Medically it is best known as Epidiolex, an approved treatment for certain severe childhood epilepsies, and it is also sold widely in unregulated wellness products whose claims are mostly not well supported. People generally take it seeking a sense of calm or symptom relief rather than intoxication, and at ordinary amounts its subjective effects are subtle.PubChem CID 644019 + DailyMed Epidiolex label ↗ · retrieved 2026-06-18
Risks
CBD's own acute toxicity is low and it is not intoxicating — but it is not "inert," and its most underappreciated risk is drug interactions. As the Epidiolex labelling shows, CBD affects several liver drug-metabolising enzymes and can raise or lower the blood levels of other medicines (see Interactions), which matters for anyone on prescriptions. In medical use it can cause drowsiness, diarrhoea, reduced appetite and — notably — raised liver enzymes, especially alongside the epilepsy drug valproate. A further problem is the unregulated market: over-the-counter CBD products are frequently mislabelled for CBD content and are sometimes contaminated with THC or other substances.PubChem CID 644019 + DailyMed Epidiolex label ↗ · retrieved 2026-06-18
Interactions
CBD is a genuine, and often overlooked, drug-interaction agent. Its approved labelling shows it affects a range of liver enzymes and transporters: it can raise the levels of drugs handled by certain pathways (so their doses may need lowering), while its own levels fall when it is taken with strong inducers of CYP3A4 or CYP2C19. A well-documented example is its interaction with the anticonvulsant clobazam, and combining CBD with valproate can raise liver enzymes. Anyone taking other medicines should treat CBD as a drug capable of changing how those medicines behave.DailyMed Epidiolex §7 ↗ · retrieved 2026-06-18
CBD is not a controlled substance in Japan. Cannabidiol is not named in 別表第一, in the Cabinet Order's narcotics or psychotropics articles, in the 覚醒剤取締法 or in the designated substances ordinance, and the ordinance's three dibenzopyran group clauses, 省令第一条第三百六十三号 to 第三百六十五号, do not reach it because each requires the closed dibenzopyran ring system that CBD, a ring opened cannabinoid, does not have. A mechanical search of the control lists and the MHLW and Narcotics Control Department list PDFs on 2 October 2026 for カンナビジオール, cannabidiol and CBD found none of those terms. That absence is stated as at the narcotics tables status 6 September 2026, the psychotropics tables status 3 October 2025 and the designated substances list status 6 September 2026. What controls a CBD product is its delta 9 THC content. Delta 9 THC is a 麻薬 at 別表第一第四十二号, and 第七十八号ロ excludes from the narcotics only 「その濫用による保健衛生上の危害が発生しない量として政令で定める量以下の第四十二号に掲げる物（大麻草としての形状を有しないものに限る。）を含有する物であつて、前各号（同号を除く。）に掲げる物又は大麻を含有しないもの」. In plain terms the exclusion needs three things: the delta 9 THC is not in the shape of the plant, it is at or below the limit, and the product contains no other substance in 別表第一 and no cannabis. The Cabinet Order's 第二条 fixes the limit as: oils that are liquid at room temperature and powders, 「油脂（常温において液体であるものに限る。）及び粉末百万分中十分の量」 (10 ppm); aqueous solutions, 「水溶液一億分中十分の量」 (0.1 ppm); and everything else, 「前二号に掲げる物以外のもの百万分中一分の量」 (1 ppm). A product above its limit is a 麻薬, and the MHLW cannabis reform page says so in terms: «この値を超える量のΔ9-THCを含有する製品等は「麻薬」に該当します。» A second rule now applies too: cannabinol became a designated substance on 1 June 2026, so a CBD product that contains CBN is a 指定薬物 product whatever its THC content. The Cabinet Order's 第六条 also deems two tetrahydrocannabinolic acids, for example 「六ａ・七・八・十ａ―テトラヒドロ―一―ヒドロキシ―六・六・九―トリメチル―三―ペンチル―六Ｈ―ジベンゾ［ｂ・ｄ］ピラン―二―カルボン酸及びその塩類」, to be narcotics under 第二条第二項; the instruments read do not say how that applies to traces of THCA in a CBD product, so such traces are a further risk this cell does not resolve.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No Japanese drug statute provides a death sentence: 死刑 appears in the main provisions of none of the 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法 (the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act), the 覚醒剤取締法 (the Stimulants Control Act), the あへん法 (the Opium Act), the 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 (the Cannabis Plant Cultivation Act), the pharmaceuticals Act (the PMD Act) or the 麻薬特例法 (the Narcotics Special Provisions Act), each read on e-Gov on 2 October 2026. Japan has not abolished capital punishment: 刑法第九条 lists it among the principal punishments, 「死刑、拘禁刑、罰金、拘留及び科料を主刑とし、没収を付加刑とする。」, and 第百九十九条 provides it for murder. Every penalty below reads 拘禁刑, the single form of imprisonment that replaced 懲役 and 禁錮 on the day described in the ministerial ordinance's own words as 「刑法等の一部を改正する法律の施行の日（令和七年六月一日）」, 1 June 2025; under 刑法第十二条第一項 「有期拘禁刑は、一月以上二十年以下とする。」, so an open ended fixed term such as one year or more runs to twenty years, and 第十四条第二項 allows an aggravated fixed term to rise to thirty. The drug statutes took the new term from 令和四年法律第六十八号. Life imprisonment appears in the drug statutes in three places only: 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法第六十四条第二項 (heroin imported, exported or made for profit), 覚醒剤取締法第四十一条第二項 (stimulants imported, exported or made for profit) and 麻薬特例法第五条 (dealing in any 規制薬物 as a business). A CBD product whose delta 9 THC is at or below its limit and not in the shape of the plant, which contains no other substance in 別表第一 and no cannabis (the condition in 第七十八号ロ), and which is free of CBN, carries no drug penalty. A product over the limit is a 麻薬 and takes the ordinary narcotics articles: importing it is 第六十五条第一項第一号, one to ten years; possessing it is 第六十六条第一項, up to seven years; using it is 第六十六条の二, up to seven years, all as 拘禁刑. A product containing CBN falls under the pharmaceuticals Act's 第七十六条の四, with up to three years or a fine of up to three million yen or both for possession or use (第八十四条第二十八号) and up to five years or five million yen or both for dealing as a business (第八十三条の九). The importer carries the risk of the measurement, because the offence turns on the content, not on the label.
If prescribed / medical
CBD has no prescription route because it needs none: a compliant product is not a controlled medicine. There is no approved CBD medicine route set out in the instruments read for this cell; the MHLW reform page describes a clinical research route for patients with intractable epilepsy, which is a study arrangement, not a prescription. For CBN, the MHLW drug abuse page says patients with an intractable condition can continue to use a CBN product through a prescribed procedure: «他に代替できる治療法がない難治性の疾患又は障害の診断を受け、ＣＢＮを含む製品を使用する必要性がある方（以下「患者」といいます。）は、所定の手続きを経ることで、医療等の用途として継続的に使用することができます。»
Documentation
A foreign prescription is irrelevant to a CBD product; what decides whether it can be brought in is its delta 9 THC content measured against the three limits, and whether it contains CBN. The Narcotics Control Department offers a voluntary pre-clearance check and says «この事前確認手続きは、当該製品の輸入に際して必ず必要な法定事項ではありません。» On CBN it says «令和８年６月１日（月）より指定薬物に指定され、CBNを含有する製品（以下「CBN製品」といいます。）の製造、輸入、販売、所持、使用等が禁止されます。» Other product and import law still applies to a compliant product, including the general personal import rule if it is presented as a medicine and food law if it is presented as a food. Tables relied on: the MHLW designation tables, narcotics tables status 6 September 2026 (麻薬の指定状況 令和８年９月６日現在: the Act's 別表第一 with 76 substances and the Cabinet Order's 第一条 with 171, counts that match the e-Gov text read on 2 October 2026); the MHLW designated substances list status 6 September 2026 (the English list headed as of September 6, 2026, 2,484 substances; the Japanese index dates its own copy 令和８年８月27日現在 and gives the same total); and for the absence of CBD itself also the MHLW designation tables, psychotropics tables status 3 October 2025 (向精神薬の指定状況 令和７年10月３日現在: the Act's 別表第三 with 10 substances and the Cabinet Order's 第四条 with 80, counts that match the e-Gov text read on 2 October 2026).
Japan · e-Gov law data API (Digital Agency), XML fetched 2 October 2026 · the e-Gov web pages are JavaScript shells, so the API text was cached and read · 麻薬、麻薬原料植物、向精神薬、麻薬向精神薬原料等を指定する政令 (平成二年政令第二百三十八号) 第二条, residual limits 「油脂（常温において液体であるものに限る。）及び粉末百万分中十分の量」 · 麻薬、麻薬原料植物、向精神薬、麻薬向精神薬原料等を指定する政令 平成二年政令第二百三十八号, last amended by 令和八年政令第二百五十八号, promulgated 2026-08-07 and in force 2026-09-06 under its own 附則, https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/402CO0000000238 · 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法 昭和二十八年法律第十四号, carriage and use articles 第二条 第十二条 第十三条 第十七条 第二十七条 第五十条の八 第五十条の十一 and penalty articles 第六十四条 第六十四条の二 第六十四条の三 第六十五条 第六十六条 第六十六条の二 第六十六条の三 第六十六条の四, as amended by 令和五年法律第八十四号 (promulgated 2023-12-13, narcotics changes in force 2024-12-12), 令和七年法律第三十七号 (promulgated 2025-05-21 · its two enforced revisions of this Act, 2025-05-21 and 2025-11-20, add only 附則 text, and its amendment of the Act's own text is not in force until 2027-05-20, per the e-Gov law_revisions record) and 令和七年法律第八十七号 (promulgated 2025-12-12 · its change to this Act, 第五十八条の十五, in force 2026-10-01 according to the e-Gov law_revisions record, which marks that revision CurrentEnforced · its other provisions mostly from 2027-04-01), with penalty wording from 令和四年法律第六十八号 in force 2025-06-01, https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/328AC0000000014 · 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法施行令 昭和二十八年政令第五十七号, read for traveller provisions, https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/328CO0000000057 · 麻薬特例法 (国際的な協力の下に規制薬物に係る不正行為を助長する行為等の防止を図るための麻薬及び向精神薬取締法等の特例等に関する法律) 平成三年法律第九十四号 第五条, https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/403AC0000000094 · Updated October 2, 2026
Singapore
Legal status
Not confirmed for Singapore. Cannabidiol is named nowhere in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973. Part 4 of the First Schedule defines cannabinol derivatives by reference to cannabinol and gives nine worked examples, and cannabidiol is not among them; its limb (e) reaches compounds derived from the listed substances "by substitution of any of the hydrogen atoms", and this cell does not decide whether cannabidiol is one. A product sold as CBD can still be cannabis: section 2 defines cannabis as "any part of a plant of the genus Cannabis, or any part of such plant, by whatever name it is called", and a cannabis mixture as "any mixture of vegetable matter containing tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabinol in any quantity". A product containing tetrahydrocannabinol is reached through First Schedule Part 1, paragraph 1, entry (24), "Cannabinol derivatives", and paragraph 5 on products containing a listed substance. For pure cannabidiol, whether Part 2A reaches it was not settled.
Consequences if caught
Second Schedule reach: conditional, and it is set out below rather than answered yes or no. The Second Schedule carries 20 rows imposing "Death" and they name exactly eight terms: opium, morphine, diamorphine, cocaine, cannabis, cannabis mixture, cannabis resin and methamphetamine. A CBD product that is plant material is cannabis, which carries "Death" where the quantity trafficked, imported or exported is "more than 500 grammes". A product of vegetable matter containing tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabinol is a cannabis mixture, which carries "Death" where the quantity is "more than 1,000 grammes". Pure cannabidiol is none of the eight terms. Unauthorised possession of cannabis under section 8(a) is never capital, its lowest band, below 330 grammes, carrying "Maximum 10 years or $20,000 or both (subject to section 33(3B))". If pure cannabidiol is a psychoactive substance, Part 2A applies. Part 2A sets its own penalties in its sections, not in the Second Schedule. Section 11I(2) makes possession punishable by "a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or to both". Section 11F(3) sets trafficking at "imprisonment for a term of not less than 2 years and not more than 10 years" and a fine "of not less than $4,000 and not more than $10,000". Section 11H(2) sets import or export at "imprisonment for a term of not less than 3 years and not more than 20 years" and a fine "of not less than $6,000 and not more than $20,000". Each of those sections allows a defence, proved on a balance of probabilities, of a "legitimate purpose other than human consumption", and section 22A provides that a person who asserts that a substance is an excluded substance "bears the burden of proving that assertion on a balance of probabilities". The listing question above is unresolved, so treat the position as unsettled rather than permissive.
If prescribed / medical
Not established here. Do not rely on a foreign prescription without checking with the Health Sciences Authority before travelling.
United Arab Emirates
Legal status
Not confirmed. No entry matching cannabidiol was found in the complete schedules of Decision No. 158 of 2025 after a search on the abbreviation, the full name and the cannabinoid block. The Arabic string «كانابيديول؛ CBD» is the dossier's search record of the terms tested and not a schedule entry. The cannabinoid blocks were searched with tetrahydrocannabinol, dronabinol, nabilone and hexahydrocannabinol treated as different substances, and no cannabidiol placement was found. That is a narrower statement than it may look: it concerns the molecule, and a consumer product sold as a cannabidiol oil is a mixture whose other constituents may be named in the schedules even where this one is not. The search was run on 20 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: not established. The schedule status of cannabidiol is genuinely open, so neither Article 57 nor Article 58 can be assigned and no capital quantity threshold is inferred. The real exposure on this row comes from the product rather than the molecule: the same searches recorded specified tetrahydrocannabinol variants and hexahydrocannabinol as present in the schedules, both on the quantity free Article 57 side, so a trace of a named cannabinoid in a product carried as cannabidiol engages that row and not this one. An open placement for the molecule is not a safe position for the bottle.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription question can be answered while the molecule's placement is open. There is no established schedule position for a prescription or a permit to evidence, and the dossier records no medicinal cannabidiol route. It records at the modafinil row that a 268 entry ministry travellers list was checked and expressly not used as a schedule, which would not resolve this row. The question is deferred.
Documentation
No documentation route can be described for an unplaced molecule, and a certificate of analysis from the country of purchase is not an Emirati authorisation. Provenance: the search for this row tested cannabidiol and its abbreviation against the complete schedules on 20 September 2026 and returned no placement, while recording tetrahydrocannabinol variants, dronabinol, nabilone and hexahydrocannabinol as present and distinct. The practical point is that a certificate showing any quantity of a named cannabinoid documents a substance that does have a placement.
United Arab Emirates, Decision No. 158 of 2025, complete schedules searched for cannabidiol and its abbreviation with no matching entry returned · the string «كانابيديول؛ CBD» is the dossier's search record and not a printed schedule entry · the same search recorded the cannabinoid entries as printing specified tetrahydrocannabinol variants, dronabinol, nabilone and hexahydrocannabinol, each treated as a different substance and none as a match · Updated September 21, 2026
China
Legal status
CBD (cannabidiol) is not approved for any consumer use, the NMPA removed CBD from permitted cosmetic ingredients in 2021 and CBD in food is banned; cannabis and its extracts remain scheduled narcotics, and any THC content makes a CBD product cannabis.
Consequences if caught
CBD consumer products are seized as banned ingredients, and if any THC is present the product is treated as cannabis under Criminal Law Article 347 (trafficking), which carries up to life and the death penalty for large quantities.
If prescribed / medical
There is no consumer or prescription CBD route; only licensed research/pharmaceutical use under supervision.
Documentation
No documentation legalises consumer CBD; it is a banned ingredient and, with any THC, treated as cannabis, and foreign prescriptions are not recognised.
Not confirmed. The dossier records no entry for CBD in the Decree 681 lists as amended up to Government Decree No. 880 of 11 June 2025, checked on 18 September 2026, but it quotes only the title of the list, not an entry or a closing line, Russia's lists are amended by government decree, and the dossier describes a closed list plus analogue model whose analogue route this row does not resolve. So the absence is recorded as a search result, not published as an answer. Search record from the dossier for this row: instruments checked, Перечень, утв. Постановлением № 681; Decree 681 and Decree 1002 checked; text quoted, «Перечень наркотических средств, психотропных веществ и их прекурсоров» / “List of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors”; checked 18 Sep 2026; finding, “CBD is not separately named; THC or cannabis content may independently control a product. Decree 1002 gives no CBD amount.”
Consequences if caught
Not confirmed. The dossier assigns no Decree 1002 amount and no article 228 or 228.1 ceiling to CBD on this record. No penalty is stated here, because the substance's position under the drug lists is not settled from the dossier.
If prescribed / medical
Not confirmed. The dossier states no prescription route for CBD.
Documentation
Not confirmed. The dossier states no traveller documentation rule for CBD.
CBD is not answered in Thailand by the label on the bottle. The Ministry of Public Health Category V notification B.E. 2565 covers สารสกัดจากทุกส่วนของพืชกัญชา, extracts from every part of the cannabis plant, subject to that notification's own exceptions and its THC conditions, and the Controlled Herb (Cannabis) Notification B.E. 2568 sits alongside it for the plant material. So the status of a given CBD product turns on whether the extract qualifies for the exemption and on what it contains, and a qualifying low-THC exempt extract and a non-qualifying Category V cannabis extract take different routes under the same name. This row therefore states a test rather than a single terminal placement, because the instrument itself is written that way.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Neither a death penalty nor a life term is reachable on this row: a non-exempt Category V cannabis extract is subject to Narcotics Code section 148, which allows up to 5 years, or 1 to 15 years in aggravated cases, and Category V carries no death penalty and no life term. A qualifying exempt extract does not enter that penalty structure at all, which is why the THC condition does more work here than any quantity of product does. Section 145 paragraph 3 and its capital alternative belong to Category I narcotics and have nothing to do with a cannabis extract.
If prescribed / medical
A CBD product's route depends on which side of the exemption the extract falls, and this reading establishes that fork rather than a single answer: a qualifying low-THC exempt extract and a non-qualifying Category V extract are treated differently under the B.E. 2565 notification, while the plant material itself runs on the separate controlled herb channel. Thailand's country level traveller rule was not established here for either side of that fork, so no import permit, personal quantity allowance or certificate requirement for a CBD product can be stated from what was read. A product bought lawfully elsewhere is not thereby a qualifying extract in Thailand, because the qualification is defined by the Thai notification's own conditions.
Documentation
Carry the certificate of analysis showing the THC content, not just the CBD label, because the exemption in the B.E. 2565 notification runs on the composition and the notification's stated conditions rather than on the marketing name. Nothing read here establishes that such a certificate is accepted at the Thai border, so treat it as the minimum rather than as the answer. The reading was taken on 20 September 2026 from the consolidated narcotics table carrying the Category V position, at https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/media.php?id=808160206197497856&name=NARCO+list+(update+15.09.2025)+NEW.pdf, read with the Controlled Herb (Cannabis) Notification B.E. 2568. No express open reuse licence was located on the cited page, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link.
· Updated September 21, 2026
Indonesia
Legal status
Not a narkotika and not a psikotropika under Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika or Undang-Undang Nomor 5 Tahun 1997 tentang Psikotropika: named in none of the seven current golongan: Narkotika Golongan I, II and III of Permenkes No. 15 Tahun 2025, and Psikotropika Golongan I, II, III and IV of Permenkes No. 14 Tahun 2025. Cannabidiol is not named in any of the seven current golongan. Searches for kanabidiol and cannabidiol return nothing. The model: each Act carries its own list for the first time only, and every change since is a Ministerial regulation. Pasal 6(1) of Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika divides narcotics into Golongan I, II and III. Pasal 6(2) then provides that 「Penggolongan Narkotika sebagaimana dimaksud pada ayat (1) untuk pertama kali ditetapkan sebagaimana tercantum dalam Lampiran I dan merupakan bagian yang tak terpisahkan dari Undang-Undang ini」, so the Act's own annex governs only the first classification. The empowering article is Pasal 6(3): 「Ketentuan mengenai perubahan penggolongan Narkotika sebagaimana dimaksud pada ayat (2) diatur dengan Peraturan Menteri」. The psychotropics Act is built the same way: Pasal 2(3) of Undang-Undang Nomor 5 Tahun 1997 tentang Psikotropika sets the four golongan 「untuk pertamakali」 in its annex and Pasal 2(4) provides that 「Ketentuan lebih lanjut untuk penetapan dan perubahan jenis-jenis psikotropika sebagaimana dimaksud pada ayat (3) diatur oleh Menteri」. So neither Act's annex is the operative list today. The narcotics list in force is the Lampiran to Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Nomor 15 Tahun 2025 tentang Perubahan Penggolongan Narkotika, ditetapkan 21 November 2025, diundangkan 28 November 2025, Berita Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 2025 Nomor 989, which revoked Permenkes Nomor 7 Tahun 2025. The psychotropics list in force is the Lampiran to Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Nomor 14 Tahun 2025 tentang Penetapan dan Perubahan Penggolongan Psikotropika, Berita Negara Tahun 2025 Nomor 988, which revoked Permenkes Nomor 6 Tahun 2025. The Act itself was last amended by Undang-Undang Nomor 6 Tahun 2023. One part of the scheme is still in the Act and not in any regulation: the Prekursor Narkotika in Lampiran II, Tabel I and Tabel II, which neither Permenkes restates. A golongan list is not fixed by the Undang-Undang: it is moved by the Menteri Kesehatan through a Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan, which is what Permenkes No. 15 Tahun 2025 and Permenkes No. 14 Tahun 2025 are. [Likely] Those two are the latest this row was read against and no later Permenkes was read in this pass, so a subsequent one adding this substance is not ruled out and this absence is stated as at the versions named rather than as at today.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Neither Act creates an offence for this substance, so neither the narcotics ladder in Pasal 111 to 127 nor the psychotropics offences in Pasal 59 and following can engage on any facts. What governs it instead is named in the status above. It is caught anyway, by the cannabis entry rather than by a CBD entry. Narkotika Golongan I reaches 「semua bagian dari tanaman termasuk... hasil olahan tanaman ganja」, all parts of the plant including its processed products, and CBD oil from hemp or cannabis is exactly that. A second argument exists and is weaker: CBD shares the molecular formula C21H30O2 with delta 9 THC and so is literally an isomer of it, but whether the words isomer of tetrahydrocannabinol reach a compound that is not a tetrahydrocannabinol is a question of construction, and this cell does not rest on it. The plant product route is enough and is objective. Neither reaches this substance, and not because the penalty is low but because no offence under either Act engages at all. The capital provisions are Pasal 113(2), 114(2) and 116(2) for Golongan I narcotics, Pasal 118(2), 119(2) and 121(2) for Golongan II, and Pasal 59(2) of the psychotropics Act for Golongan I psychotropics. Every one of them operates on a substance in a named Golongan, and this substance is in none of the seven lists: Narkotika Golongan I, II and III, and Psikotropika Golongan I, II, III and IV. Golongan III narcotics carry no death penalty in any event. The precursor tables in Lampiran II of the Act were also read and this substance is in neither of them, so Pasal 129 does not apply either. No quantity and no conduct reaches a capital or life sentence for it under these two Acts. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass: Permenkes 15/2025 and 14/2025 were read and no entry for this substance was located under the names searched. That is an unresolved search and not a finding of absence: the lists print chemical names and a name not searched for is a name not found.
Saudi Arabia
Legal status
CBD has its own rule in Saudi Arabia rather than an ordinary schedule entry. General Rule 9 of the schedules attached to the Law of Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, Royal Decree M/39 of 1426 AH, in the version issued on 4 September 2026, addresses «مادة الكانابيديول (CBD)» and turns on origin, reaching CBD «المستخلصة أو المستحضرة من مصادر عشبية», extracted or prepared from herbal sources, subject to the exceptions the rule itself prints. The structure has three limbs. Herbal source CBD compounds are broadly prohibited. Wholly synthetic CBD can qualify for the stated exception where it carries no scheduled component. Approved herbal medicinal CBD products are brought within M/39 rather than left outside it. So the question a Saudi officer asks about a CBD product is where the molecule came from and what else is in the bottle, not whether the label says CBD. Cannabis itself remains at Schedule I Category A and tetrahydrocannabinol at Schedule II Category A.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure here is conditional and the condition is the contents. The special 2026 CBD rule prohibits extensive conduct in its own terms but does not itself create a standalone Article 37 trigger, and Article 37 capital exposure requires either a scheduled narcotic or psychotropic constituent or a product that the CBD rule has brought within M/39. Where one of those is present, Article 37(I) is available and it states no quantity at all: the conduct named is smuggling, receipt from a smuggler, and import, export, manufacture, production, extraction or cultivation with intent to promote, with no weight threshold anywhere in it, and the death sentence is reducible by the court under Article 37(II) to a prison term of not less than fifteen years with the stated lashes and fine. No express life imprisonment wording was found anywhere in M/39. The practical trap is that most retail CBD oil is a herbal extract carrying residual THC, and THC is Schedule II Category A, so the constituent rather than the label decides which article applies.
If prescribed / medical
The Saudi traveller rule is a permit rule rather than a prescription rule. A controlled medicine may be brought in only under a clearance obtained from the SFDA before travel through its Controlled Drugs System, and that advance electronic clearance is required rather than optional. CBD's position under that rule depends on which limb of General Rule 9 the product falls into: an approved herbal medicinal CBD product is brought within M/39 and therefore inside the clearance regime, while a herbal source CBD compound that is not an approved product is on the prohibited side of the rule rather than the permitted side. A wholly synthetic CBD preparation with no scheduled component can qualify for the stated exception. A foreign prescription does not establish any of those limbs, and a certificate of analysis from the seller is not an SFDA determination.
Documentation
Do not carry a retail CBD product into the Kingdom on the strength of it being lawful where it was bought. If the product is an approved herbal medicinal CBD preparation, apply through the SFDA Controlled Drugs System before travelling and carry the clearance itself, with the medicine in its original dispensing packaging, the prescription and a medical report naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, translated into Arabic and dated less than six months before travel, and declare it at customs; advance electronic clearance has been required since 1 November 2025. The permit mechanics stated here are the SFDA traveller rules recorded on the current live cell and were not re-derived from the instrument in this pass. General Rule 9 was read in the 4 September 2026 schedules on 17 September 2026.
Malaysia
Legal status
Cannabidiol is named nowhere in either Act, and in Malaysia that is not the question. Section 2 of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 defines cannabis as «any part of any plant of the genus Cannabis from which there is found to be present resin irrespective of its quantity, and by whatever name the plant may be designated». A cannabidiol product made from cannabis plant material in which resin is present is therefore cannabis itself, a dangerous drug under Parts I and II, whatever its THC content and whatever the label says. Part III adds «Extract or tincture of cannabis». There is no cannabidiol exemption and no THC threshold anywhere in the Act. The Poisons List entry reads «Cannabis, its resin, extracts and tinctures of» with the dangerous drug marker, exempting only corn paints for external use.
Consequences if caught
Section 39B(2) reaches the material and not the molecule. Cannabidiol is named nowhere in the First Schedule, but section 2 defines cannabis as «any part of any plant of the genus Cannabis from which there is found to be present resin irrespective of its quantity, and by whatever name the plant may be designated», so a cannabidiol product made from resin-bearing plant material is itself cannabis, a dangerous drug under Parts I and II, and an extract of it is «Extract or tincture of cannabis» in Part III. The chain is short and it passes through no weight at any point. Section 2 defines a «dangerous drug» as «any drug or substance which is for the time being comprised in the First Schedule», section 39B(1) prohibits trafficking in «a dangerous drug», whether on your own behalf or on behalf of any other person, and section 39B(2) sets the penalty. And the word «trafficking» is itself defined in section 2, far wider than selling: it «includes the doing of any of the following acts, that is to say, manufacturing, importing, exporting, keeping, concealing, buying, selling, giving, receiving, storing, administering, transporting, carrying, sending, delivering, procuring, supplying or distributing any dangerous drug otherwise than under the authority of this Act or the regulations made under the Act». Keeping, carrying and storing are on that list, so nothing commercial has to be shown. The cannabis presumption weights apply to the material as found. Section 37(da)(vi) is «200 grammes or more in weight of cannabis», (vii) the same for cannabis resin and (viii) a combined 200 grammes. There is no cannabidiol figure and no cannabinoid assay anywhere in the Act: the words «irrespective of its quantity» in section 2 are what make the whole weight count. Section 37(da) closes with the words «otherwise than in accordance with the authority of this Act or any other written law, shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to be trafficking in the said drug», so it is a rebuttable presumption about proof and not a definition of the offence, and the words «until the contrary is proved» are what put the defendant to proof. Section 39B(2) itself turns on quantity at no point. Below trafficking there are two further tiers, and they are a separate list from the presumption weights. Section 39A(1)(f) to (h) applies where the subject matter is 20 grammes or more but less than 50 grammes of the material, and sets «imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than two years but shall not exceed five years» with «whipping of not less than three strokes but not more than nine strokes». Section 39A(2)(f) to (h) applies where the offence is «not punishable with death» and the subject matter is 50 grammes or more of it, and sets «imprisonment for life or for a term which shall not be less than five years» with «whipping of not less than ten strokes». Death is available and it is no longer mandatory, and the change has a date. Section 39B(2) once read simply «on conviction with death». The Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2017, Act A1558, in force 15 March 2018, opened a narrow gate out of that, a date carried forward from the earlier reading and not re-derived in this pass. The Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023, Act 846, came into operation on 4 July 2023, and section 54 of it is the whole of what it did to the Dangerous Drugs Act: it substituted «be punished with whipping of not less than twelve strokes» for fifteen strokes in subsection (2), and it deleted subsections (2A) and (2B), which were the mandatory death machinery. Section 39B(2) now reads, in full: «Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence against this Act and shall be punished on conviction with death or imprisonment for life and shall, if he is not sentenced to death, be punished with whipping of not less than twelve strokes.» So the court chooses between death and imprisonment for life with no precondition, and at least twelve strokes follow any sentence that is not death. Act 846 is widely described as replacing life with a term of thirty to forty years. It did that in the Penal Code, the Firearms (Increased Penalties) Act 1971, the Arms Act 1960, the Kidnapping Act 1961, the Strategic Trade Act 2010 and the Criminal Procedure Code. It did not do it here: the words «imprisonment for life» in section 39B(2) are untouched and no definition of that phrase appears anywhere in the Dangerous Drugs Act, so no year figure is stated in this cell. Section 55 of Act 846 applies the amended section to anyone sentenced after it came into operation even where the offence was committed before. Below trafficking the possession offence is not section 12, and that catches people out. Section 11(1) confines Part IV of the Act, where section 12 sits, to «dangerous drugs listed in Parts III, IV and V of the First Schedule», so a Part I or Part II entry is reached by different sections. Section 6 makes keeping or having in possession, custody or control any cannabis, or the seeds of the plant, an offence punishable by «a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or both». Section 9(1)(b) does the same on the same penalty, because section 8 construes every reference to prepared opium in that Part of the Act as including «cannabis, cannabis resin and substances of which such resin forms the base». Consumption is section 10(2), at a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or both, and it reaches possessing a pipe or other utensil as well as smoking. Section 15, the self-administration provision, does not apply at all, because it is confined to drugs in Parts III and IV of the Schedule. Three procedural consequences follow automatically. Section 41(1) removes a section 39B charge from the Sessions Court and the Magistrates' Court, so it is tried in the High Court, and section 41A(3) has it tried by a judge sitting alone. Section 41B(1) provides that bail «shall not be granted» where the offence is punishable with death, and also where it is punishable with imprisonment for more than five years. Section 38A, which lets a court deal with a drug dependant under eighteen under the Drug Dependants (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act 1983 rather than punish him, is expressly unavailable for a section 39B offence. Section 39C separately escalates a repeat offender under the consumption and possession provisions to not less than five and not more than seven years with not more than three strokes. The consequence for a traveller is unusually sharp. A product sold lawfully abroad as a food supplement, and labelled as containing no tetrahydrocannabinol at all, is still cannabis in Malaysia if resin-bearing plant material went into it. A product genuinely free of such material falls outside the definition, and this cell does not state which side of that line any particular product sits on. The list can move under all of this. Section 45A is headed «Power of the Minister to vary First Schedule» and it operates either on a decision of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs or of the United Nations Organization altering the Schedules to the Single Convention, or simply where the Minister «considers it expedient to add a substance to, or remove a substance from, or vary the First Schedule, he may by order make the requisite modifications». An order takes effect on gazetting and there is no notice period. He has used it twice since the text read here, by P.U. (A) 97 gazetted 2 April 2024 and P.U. (A) 416 gazetted 25 November 2025, both carried forward from the earlier reading and neither re-read in this pass. The text read for this cell is the Attorney General's Chambers updated text headed «As at 4 July 2023», and a later order is not ruled out.
South Korea
Legal status
CBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as cannabis under the Narcotics Control Act, whose 'cannabis' definition includes the plant, resin and products manufactured from them with no CBD carve-out or THC threshold; domestic cultivation and retail CBD are prohibited.
Consequences if caught
Entering Korea with CBD without prior MFDS approval is importing a controlled narcotic, seizure and narcotics prosecution; the MFDS requires all travellers of any nationality to obtain approval before bringing CBD/THC oil.
If prescribed / medical
A narrow route since the 2018 amendment (in force March 2019) allows case-by-case import of named medicines (Epidiolex, Marinol, Sativex) via the Korea Orphan Drug Center with a prescription and MFDS approval.
Documentation
All travellers must obtain prior MFDS/Korea Orphan Drug Center approval before entering with CBD; without it CBD is seized as a narcotic and a foreign prescription alone does not permit entry.
Not a controlled drug. CBD, cannabidiol, is not named in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 as in force on 2 October 2026, and no generic paragraph reaches it: the Part II entry for cannabinol derivatives depends on Part IV, which defines them as «“cannabinol derivatives” means the following substances, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, namely tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives;» Cannabidiol is not a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol: cannabinol has a closed dibenzopyran ring, and in cannabidiol that ring is open, so the definition does not describe it. A CBD product is nevertheless controlled if it contains THC or another cannabinol derivative, unless it is an exempt product. Regulation 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 limits an exempt product to one not designed for administration, from which the drug cannot readily be recovered, where «no one component part of the product or preparation contains more than one milligram of the controlled drug»; the ceiling is therefore 1 mg of each controlled drug per component part. The Home Office drug licensing factsheet, which states that it was updated on 3 October 2024 and was read on 2 October 2026, gives its view that the component part is the container, such as a bottle of oil, and not a dose. The text read is the legislation.gov.uk revised text of the Act as in force on 2 October 2026, whose Schedule 2 page states «There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, SCHEDULE 2.» The last amendment that text incorporates is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024, S.I. 2024/1361, in force 15 January 2025; a title search of the same site for 2025 and 2026 found no later amending Order, and the draft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2026 is marked «This is a draft item of legislation and has not yet been made as a UK Statutory Instrument.» Schedule 2 moves by Order in Council under section 2(2), which reads «Her Majesty may by Order in Council make such amendments in Schedule 2 to this Act as may be requisite for the purpose of adding any substance or product to, or removing any substance or product from, any of Parts I to III of that Schedule», so this does not rule out a later amendment. Section 2(1)(a) also makes a controlled drug of anything specified «in a temporary class drug order as a drug subject to temporary control (but this is subject to section 2A(6));» the only such Order found in force, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Temporary Class Drug) Order 2026, S.I. 2026/613, in force from 11 June 2026 for one year, lists seven synthetic opioids of the orphine type, from cychlorphine to 5,6-dichlorobrorphine, and this row is not among them.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No provision of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 or of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 provides a death sentence; the highest punishment in Schedule 4 to the 1971 Act is imprisonment for life. Pure cannabidiol attracts no offence under the 1971 Act. A product carrying more than the exempt product limit of THC or another cannabinol derivative is a Class B product under Part II, paragraph 4, so possession carries «5 years or a fine, or both.» on indictment and supply, production, import and export carry «14 years or a fine, or both.» for the controlled content. In England and Wales possession of a cannabinol derivative can instead be met with a penalty notice for disorder under section 1 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, under the description «Possession of cannabis etc», given only to a person aged 18 or over, at £90 as set by S.I. 2009/83 and S.I. 2013/1579. Whether pure cannabidiol is a psychoactive substance under section 2 of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 is a question of effect that the Act does not answer by name; if it is, supply for consumption for psychoactive effect is a section 5 offence of «on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years or a fine, or both.»
Canada
Legal status
CBD (cannabidiol) is a controlled phytocannabinoid under the Cannabis Act 2018 regardless of source or THC content; it is legal only when sold through a provincially/territorially authorised cannabis retailer, not as a general health-food supplement.
Consequences if caught
CBD held outside the legal cannabis framework (for example an unlicensed or imported CBD supplement) is an illicit-cannabis offence under the Cannabis Act, and it is illegal to carry across the Canadian border in either direction.
If prescribed / medical
Cannabidiol medicines are approved, Epidyolex for seizures and Sativex (nabiximols), and Health Canada is consulting on a possible non-prescription CBD health-product pathway.
Documentation
Buy only through a licensed cannabis retailer; imported or mail-order CBD is illegal regardless of documentation, and Epidyolex/Sativex require a prescription.
Prescription only medicine, with a pharmacist only tier, and a border controlled drug. F2026L01327 places cannabidiol in Schedule 4: «CANNABIDIOL in preparations for therapeutic use or analytical and scientific research where: (a) cannabidiol comprises 98% or more of the total cannabinoid content of the preparation; and (b) any cannabinoids, other than cannabidiol, must be only those naturally found in cannabis and comprise 2% or less of the total cannabinoid content of the preparation; except when: (c) included in Schedule 3; or (d) in hemp seed oil at a concentration of 75 mg/kg or less.» Schedule 3 covers registered oral, oromucosal and sublingual products with «the maximum recommended daily dose is 150 mg or less of cannabidiol», «packs containing not more than 30 days’ supply» and supply «for persons aged 18 years and over». A preparation outside the 98% purity condition is cannabis or a cannabis extract in Schedule 9, or Schedule 8 when it meets the medicinal cannabis entry. Schedule 2 item 35 of the Criminal Code Regulations 2019 lists «Cannabinoids (other than a Cannabinoid of a kind that can be obtained from a plant that is not a Cannabis plant)» as a border controlled drug (commercial 2.0 kg, marketable 2.0 g). Cannabidiol is a cannabinoid of the cannabis plant, so importing it is a Division 307 matter unless done under a licence and permission or the traveller exemption. For the controlled drug offences CBD needs s301.9, and it falls outside it. Apart from item 35, it is not listed in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 of the Criminal Code Regulations 2019 (Compilation No. 6). Nearest listed drug: tetrahydrocannabinols, THC (Schedule 1 item 238). Limb (a) of s301.9(1) does not reach it because although CBD and THC share the formula C21H30O2, s301.9(1)(a)(ii) needs «a structural isomer having the same constituent groups», and CBD carries two hydroxy groups where THC carries one hydroxy group and a ring ether; limb (c) does not, because CBD is THC with its central pyran ring opened, and removing a ring is none of the s301.9(1)(c) modifications; and on the method stated next limb (d) does not, because opening a ring puts it outside s301.9 on that method. The method used for every row is a reading, not a rule the Act states: a modification that limb (a) or limb (c) plainly describes is treated as making a drug analogue; one contestable modification (a swap within one paragraph of s301.9(2), or a core ring replaced), a single limb (d) change from the listed drug, or an express exclusion or different listing in the Regulations is treated as making the exposure conditional; anything more, including adding or removing a ring, is treated as outside s301.9. Because s301.9(1)(c) allows a modification «obtained in one or more of the following ways», the tier this gives can depend on how a change is described, and nothing read settles which description governs. No court decision applying s301.9 to cannabidiol was read, so this is a reading of the text. Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956 Schedule 4 item 34 («34 Cannabinoids»). The Poisons Standard read is the Poisons Standard October 2026 (Federal Register of Legislation F2026L01327, made 28 September 2026, registered 30 September 2026, in force from 1 October 2026 under its s2, replacing the June 2026 issue; no later issue was registered when it was read). This cell states Commonwealth law only. The Poisons Standard has effect through adoption by each state and territory: its Reader's guide, which s5(1) of the instrument says is not part of it, states «The scheduling of poisons is implemented through relevant State and Territory legislation.» Most personal possession and use offences are state and territory law, which differs by jurisdiction, and Criminal Code s300.4 keeps those laws running concurrently with Part 9.1. Read as in force on 2 October 2026 against F2026L01327, the Criminal Code Act 1995 at Compilation No. 174 (compilation date 30 June 2026, C2026C00243), the Criminal Code Regulations 2019 at Compilation No. 6 (compilation date 13 December 2025, F2025C01260) and the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956 at Compilation No. 147 (compilation date 13 July 2026, F2026C00751). The Criminal Code Regulations schedules are made by the Governor-General and the Poisons Standard by a delegate of the Secretary under Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 s52D, so a later instrument can change any of this, and this reading does not rule out a later amendment.
Germany
Legal status
Cannabidiol is expressly outside the statutory definition of Cannabis. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass: KCanG S 1 Nr. 8 was read at gesetze-im-internet.de on 21 September 2026. It defines Cannabis and then excepts five things by letter, and Buchstabe b is Cannabidiol. So CBD is not reached by the Konsumcannabisgesetz as cannabis, and it is not reached by the Betaeubungsmittelgesetz either, because the BtMG Anlagen do not name it. CBD (cannabidiol) as an isolated substance is not a narcotic under the Narcotics Act (BtMG), only THC is scheduled, so consumer CBD is lawful if derived from EU-certified industrial hemp within the THC field-threshold (raised from 0.2% to 0.3% by the Consumer Cannabis Act/CanG in force 1 April 2024), though ingestible CBD requires Novel Food authorisation, which the BVL treats as not yet met.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Germany has no death penalty and neither statute carries a life term. Compliant CBD carries no offence. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass from KCanG S 1 Nr. 8 read at gesetze-im-internet.de on 21 September 2026: Cannabidiol is excepted from the Cannabis definition at Buchstabe b, so the product itself is not cannabis. A CBD product carrying more than trace delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol is caught through its THC content rather than through the CBD, and since 1 April 2024 that route runs through the Konsumcannabisgesetz and not through the Betaeubungsmittelgesetz: BtMG Anlage I was read the same day and lists the isomers Delta-6a(10a), Delta-6a, Delta-7, Delta-8, Delta-10 and Delta-9(11) and NOT Delta-9. [Likely] Carried forward from the published entry and not re-derived in this pass: the industrial-hemp field threshold was raised from 0.2% to 0.3%, and ingestible CBD requires Novel Food authorisation which the BVL treats as not yet met.
If prescribed / medical
Cannabidiol medicines such as Epidyolex are prescribable; ingestible CBD may otherwise be placed only via a medicinal-product or Novel Food authorisation. Distinct from cannabis, which was delisted from the BtMG for adult use by the CanG on 1 April 2024.
Documentation
Carry proof the product is EU-certified-hemp derived and within the THC limit; no personal-import licence is needed for compliant consumer CBD, and cannabidiol medicines require a prescription.
bvl.bund.de · Provenance of this revision: the Cannabidiol exception was re-derived in this pass from Konsumcannabisgesetz S 1 Nr. 8 Buchstabe b at https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/kcang/__1.html and the tetrahydrocannabinol isomer list from https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/btmg_1981/anlage_i.html, both read as at 21 September 2026. The earlier entry's statement that a THC-bearing CBD product is caught under the Betaeubungsmittelgesetz predates the 1 April 2024 split and is superseded. The hemp-threshold and Novel Food statements are carried forward and were not re-derived. · Updated September 21, 2026
France
Legal status
CBD is not carried by either French closed list. The dossier's finding for this row is recorded in the order's own language as Absence de classement opératoire sous « cbd » dans les listes examinées, and the search term it was recorded under is an abbreviation. France classifies through enumerated ministerial lists rather than through an open definition, so absence from both the narcotics order and the psychotropics order of 22 February 1990 is a supported proposition and not a gap in the reading. Searches were run across French names, international non-proprietary names, abbreviations and chemical family wording before absence was recorded, and express family clauses and constituent routes were checked. This finding is about drug classification only, and the dossier flags consumer law and food law as the body of law that may still bear on it.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. France abolished the death penalty and no French drug provision carries one. No article 222-34 ceiling attaches either, because this row proves a negative: the finding recorded as Absence de classement opératoire sous « cbd » dans les listes examinées puts CBD outside both orders of 22 February 1990, and life imprisonment under that article fastens onto a scheduled narcotic rather than onto a substance the lists do not carry. The search term the finding was recorded under is an abbreviation, and because the French lists are closed that absence is a supported proposition rather than a gap in the reading. Article L. 3421-1 of the Code de la santé publique addresses illicit use and is engaged by listed substances rather than by this one. What can still reach this row is consumer law and food law, sitting outside the narcotics orders and carrying none of their tariffs.
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule the dossier gives is that a Schengen traveller certificate or a medicines carriage list is evidential and administrative rather than the criminal schedule. Attached to this substance: CBD has no schedule placement to attach, because the row records the absence sentence Absence de classement opératoire sous « cbd » dans les listes examinées, so a carriage certificate has no narcotics or psychotropics entry to evidence in its case. The body of law the dossier flags as possibly still bearing on this row is consumer law and food law, and any supply or carriage requirement living there is outside what this row measures and outside what the dossier sets out.
Documentation
Carry the product in its original labelled packaging, with the prescription where one exists, and with anything that identifies what CBD actually is, because the point to evidence is composition rather than a schedule entry. Provenance: the finding relied on is the absence sentence Absence de classement opératoire sous « cbd » dans les listes examinées, recorded against the consolidated narcotics and psychotropics orders of 22 February 1990 and read on Légifrance at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000533085 on 18 September 2026. The search was run under an abbreviation among the other name forms, and both consolidated orders were followed to their terminal list material before absence was recorded.
Netherlands
Legal status
Cannabidiol is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II. What the lists do name is the plant material and its extract, and that is where the exposure sits. No Opiumwet offence arises from it as such, and the instrument that governs it is named below.
Consequences if caught
Lijst II prints «hennep | elk deel van de plant van het geslacht Cannabis (hennep), waaraan de hars niet is onttrokken, met uitzondering van de zaden». Lijst I prints «hennepolie | concentraat van planten van het geslacht Cannabis (hennep) verkregen door extractie van hennep of hasjiesj, al dan niet vermengd met olie». A CBD product made by extracting hemp answers the printed description of hennepolie, which is a lijst I entry, whatever its cannabidiol content. Article 12 of the Opiumwetbesluit exempts hemp plainly intended for fibre or for seed for fibre hemp production, and only where the cultivation is in the open ground and in the open air. A CBD product presented with a health claim falls to the Geneesmiddelenwet or the Warenwet. The live cell recorded that ingestible CBD is an unauthorised Novel Food, and that is carried forward from it and not verified here. Article 10 carries the penalties for lijst I. Intentionally having the substance present, the limb at article 2 under C, carries imprisonment of up to 6 years. Intentionally cultivating, preparing, processing, selling, delivering, supplying, transporting or manufacturing it, article 2 under B and D, carries up to 8 years. Intentionally bringing it into or out of Netherlands territory, article 2 under A, carries up to 12 years, so the trafficking and import limbs run from 8 to 12 years. Where the presence, or the bringing into or out of the territory, concerns a small quantity intended for own use, article 10, sixth limb, lowers the ceiling to 1 year or a fine of the third category; it does not reach the article 2 under B and D acts. The fine on the serious limbs is the fifth category, which the Criminal Code prints at 67.000 euro with an editorial note recording 110.000 euro from 1 January 2026. Article 11 carries the penalties for lijst II. Acting intentionally against article 3 under B, C or D carries imprisonment of up to 2 years, and up to 6 years where the person acts in the exercise of a profession or business. Intentionally bringing it into or out of the territory, article 3 under A, carries up to 4 years. Where the offence concerns a large quantity the two year and the four year cases both rise to 6 years. Article 1 of the Opiumwetbesluit fixes that large quantity at 500 gram hennep, 200 hennepplanten or 500 units of another lijst II substance. The fine is the fifth category, printed at 67.000 euro with an editorial note recording 110.000 euro from 1 January 2026. Article 2a carries the lijst IA prohibition and article 10b its penalties. Acting intentionally against it carries imprisonment of up to 6 years. Acting without intent carries hechtenis of up to 3 months. Where intentional import, export or presence concerns a small quantity for own use the ceiling is 6 months. Article 10c adds up to 3 years for preparatory acts. The fine is the fifth category on the intentional offence and the third category on the others, printed at 67.000 euro and 6.700 euro with editorial notes recording 110.000 euro and 11.000 euro from 1 January 2026. This row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Netherlands' published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. This is stated as at the Opiumwet consolidation in force from 17 September 2026, read at wetten.overheid.nl on 22 September 2026, and it does not rule out a later amendment.
Spain
Legal status
Not confirmed. Cannabidiol is not named in Anexo 1 or Anexo 2 of Real Decreto 2829/1977 or in the 1961 Convention lists: «cannabidiol» returned 0 whole word hits in Anexo 1, 0 in Anexo 2 and 0 in the Yellow List (2, 0 and 0 counting it inside longer words); «CBD» returned 1 whole word hit in Anexo 1, 0 in Anexo 2 and 0 in the Yellow List. The hit for «cannabidiol» is Lista II entry 74, «Hidrocannabidiol (H4-CBD; tetrahidrocannabidiol; 2-(2-isopropilo-5-metilciclohexilo)-5-pentilbenceno-1,3-diol)», hydrocannabidiol, a different compound. But the Yellow List prints cannabis «EXTRACTOS y TINTURAS» among List I narcotics, so a CBD product made from the plant may be treated as a cannabis extract, and Lista II now names «ácido tetrahidrocannabinolico» and the THC entries. Whether a particular CBD product is reached depends on how it was made and what it contains, which this cell cannot settle; food and cosmetic rules for CBD were not read. The lists are read as at the Real Decreto 2829/1977 consolidation published 21/04/2026 and in force from 22/04/2026. Narcotic absences are decided through Ley 17/1967 article 2 against the INCB Yellow List, 65th edition of July 2026; the INCB Green List, 36th edition updated December 2025, is a cross-check for psychotropics. Narcotics can also be designated nationally, «en el ámbito nacional por el procedimiento que reglamentariamente se establezca» (nationally, by the procedure set by regulation); Real Decreto 1194/2011 sets that procedure and so far names tapentadol and isotonitaceno, as consolidated to 8 June 2021. 1971 Convention decisions after December 2025 and 1961 Convention decisions after July 2026 were not read, and this does not rule out a later amendment.
Consequences if caught
No penalty is asserted, because whether a given product is controlled is not settled. If a product is a cannabis extract or carries a listed cannabinoid, the cannabis and THC rules apply. Código Penal article 368 punishes «Los que ejecuten actos de cultivo, elaboración o tráfico, o de otro modo promuevan, favorezcan o faciliten el consumo ilegal de drogas tóxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotrópicas, o las posean con aquellos fines» (those who cultivate, manufacture or traffic, or otherwise promote, favour or facilitate illegal consumption, or possess for those purposes). The penalty is «prisión de tres a seis años y multa del tanto al triplo del valor de la droga objeto del delito si se tratare de sustancias o productos que causen grave daño a la salud» (three to six years and a fine of one to three times the value of the drug, for substances causing grave harm to health) and «de prisión de uno a tres años y multa del tanto al duplo en los demás casos» (one to three years and a fine of one to two times the value, in other cases). Prison and fine are imposed together, not as alternatives. The article names no substance, so which branch applies is for the court; this cell does not assign one. Article 369 imposes the next higher degree and a fine «del tanto al cuádruplo» where an aggravating circumstance applies, among them «Fuere de notoria importancia la cantidad de las citadas sustancias» (the quantity is of notorious importance). No statute fixes that quantity. It is a sentencing aggravation the court assesses, not an amount anyone may lawfully hold. Membership of a criminal organisation under article 369 bis carries «prisión de nueve a doce años» for substances causing grave harm and «prisión de cuatro años y seis meses a diez años» otherwise. Article 368 itself allows a lower penalty: «los tribunales podrán imponer la pena inferior en grado a las señaladas en atención a la escasa entidad del hecho y a las circunstancias personales del culpable» (the courts may impose the penalty one degree lower in view of the minor scale of the act and the offender's personal circumstances), but not where article 369 bis or 370 applies: «No se podrá hacer uso de esta facultad si concurriere alguna de las circunstancias a que se hace referencia en los artículos 369 bis y 370.» (this power may not be used if any circumstance referred to in articles 369 bis and 370 is present). Article 370 goes the other way: «Se impondrá la pena superior en uno o dos grados a la señalada en el artículo 368 cuando» (the penalty one or two degrees above that of article 368 is imposed when), among other cases, the conduct is of extreme gravity, which includes where «la cantidad de las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 368 excediere notablemente de la considerada como de notoria importancia» (the quantity notably exceeds that regarded as of notorious importance). Article 368 reaches possession only when it is «con aquellos fines», that is, for those trafficking purposes. No provision read for this cell makes possession for one's own use in private a crime; that is not a legalisation, because supply stays criminal under the same article. In public the matter is administrative, not criminal. Ley Orgánica 4/2015 article 36 lists among the serious infringements, at item 16, «El consumo o la tenencia ilícitos de drogas tóxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotrópicas, aunque no estuvieran destinadas al tráfico, en lugares, vías, establecimientos públicos o transportes colectivos» (illicit consumption or possession, even when not meant for trafficking, in public places, roads, establishments or collective transport). Article 39.1 sets the fine for a serious infringement: «las graves, con multa de 601 a 30.000 euros», in a minimum grade «de 601 a 10.400» and higher grades «de 10.401 a 20.200 euros» and «de 20.201 a 30.000 euros»; article 33.2 starts at the minimum grade «La comisión de una infracción determinará la imposición de la multa correspondiente en grado mínimo.» These figures are a fine range, not a permitted quantity. Import or export without authority is also smuggling: Ley Orgánica 12/1995 article 2.3 a) applies whatever the value «Cuando el objeto del contrabando sean drogas tóxicas, estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas», and article 3.1 sets «las penas de prisión de uno a cinco años y multa del tanto al séxtuplo del valor de los bienes, mercancías, géneros o efectos». Article 3.1 also directs that, outside three listed cases, «En los demás casos previstos en el artículo 2 las penas se impondrán en su mitad superior.» How a court combines that offence with article 368 in a given case is not settled in this cell. Ley 17/1967 article 30 provides «Las sustancias estupefacientes tienen el carácter de artículos estancados, y el contrabando de las mismas será perseguido, juzgado y sancionado con arreglo a los preceptos de la vigente Ley de Contrabando.» Real Decreto 2829/1977 article 2 adds, for List I substances, «Quedan prohibidos, incluso a los efectos de la Ley de Contrabando, el uso, la fabricación, importación, exportación, tránsito, comercio, distribución y tenencia, así como la inclusión en todo preparado de las sustancias incluidas en la Lista I.»
Italy
Legal status
Not scheduled. A search of the closed tables I to IV and the table of medicinal products under article 14 of DPR 309/1990 returned no operative entry for CBD, and the dossier records that negative in the compilation's own terms as nessuna voce operativa. Article 14 assigns substances by enumeration, so an unlisted substance stays outside the DPR 309/1990 scheme until a ministerial decree adds it. This is a proposition about one statute and it is not a clearance: the dossier states in terms that a verified result never means safe or legal in every context. The cannabis entry does not carry CBD with it, because article 14 reaches the chemical variants the table text names and no others.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Italy has no death penalty, and for CBD there is no article 73 ceiling to state either, because what this row established is a negative: a search of the closed tables I to IV and the table of medicinal products under article 14 of DPR 309/1990 returned nessuna voce operativa. Articles 73 and 80 of DPR 309/1990 attach to table entries, and the 30 year cap in article 78 of the Penal Code only enters a calculation an entry has already started, so none of those numbers describes this substance. The administrative route in article 75 is equally inapplicable, since it too runs on the tables. The cannabis entry does not carry CBD with it, because article 14 reaches the chemical variants the table text names and no others.
If prescribed / medical
Italy's country level rule, in the dossier's own terms, is that a traveller certificate list or a prescribing summary is not a substitute for the statutory tables, and that acquisition or possession for personal use runs under article 75 of DPR 309/1990 as an administrative matter rather than under the trafficking article. Attached to CBD, that rule meets an absence: the closed tables carry no operative entry for it, so there is no narcotics placement for a certificate or a prescription to be measured against. Any documentation requirement that does apply comes from the medicines, food or product safety rules the dossier points to, and not from DPR 309/1990. No Italian traveller procedure for CBD was established here, and the absence of a table entry is not itself a permission.
Documentation
Carry CBD on the footing that DPR 309/1990 is not the instrument that reaches it, and hold whatever the applicable medicines or product rules require instead, because the narcotics tables impose nothing on it. The instrument is DPR 309/1990, its enumerating provision is article 14, and the Ministry of Health compilation of the tables and its ministerial amendment index were searched on 18 September 2026 without producing a placement for this row. Classification changes by decree published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale rather than by a travel or prescribing summary, and the amendment horizon checked includes the 2026 update that added the nitazene class. The negative was established by searching the closed tables I to IV and the table of medicinal products under Italian names, international non proprietary names and abbreviations, and the search was carried through to the last section of the compilation.
Mexico
Legal status
CBD is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The cannabinoid entries in article 245 are tetrahydrocannabinol isomers and this row is not one of them. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. Article 245 does close with a paragraph allowing products containing cannabis derivatives at or below one per cent of tetrahydrocannabinol to be traded under health regulation, which is a trade rule rather than a listing of this substance. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
Brazil
Legal status
Controlled in Brazil. The entry read is item 25 of lista C1, the list of other substances subject to special control, and it reads in full: "Canabidiol (CBD)". Lista C1 adendo 13 confines the lista C1 controls to cannabidiol obtained synthetically and only where no other specially controlled component is present, even as an impurity. Lista C1 adendo 1.3 disapplies the salts, ethers, esters and isomers extension to cannabidiol. Lista E adendo 5 excepts synthetically obtained cannabidiol from lista E and points to lista C1, and lista F2 note 3 excepts cannabidiol from lista F2 and points to lista C1. Plant derived cannabidiol therefore sits under lista E, not lista C1, unless one of the lista E exceptions applies. The instrument is Portaria SVS/MS 344 de 12 de maio de 1998, whose Anexo I is the list that places a substance, and article 1 sole paragraph of Lei 11.343/2006 defines drugs for the purposes of that law as substances capable of causing dependence so specified in law or listed in lists periodically updated by the federal executive, which is the hinge between the two instruments. [Certain], the entry was read this pass in Anexo I as published with Resolucao 1.036 de 9 de julho de 2026, Atualizacao n. 101.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 5, XLVII, a of the 1988 Constitution provides that there shall be no penalty of death, save in the case of declared war under article 84, XIX, and article 5, XLVII, b bars any penalty of a perpetual character, so neither a death sentence nor a whole life sentence is available under the drug law. [Certain], the constitutional text was read this pass. What follows is Brazil's drug law as it stands. It reaches part of this row and not the rest, and the end of this block says which part. Personal use is article 28 of Lei 11.343/2006, the statute the live Brazilian cells name in English as the Drug Law, and it carries no prison. The three penalties are a warning about the effects of drugs, provision of services to the community, and an educational measure of attendance at a programme or course. Paragraph 3 caps the second and third at five months, paragraph 4 at ten months on a repeat, and paragraph 2 leaves the personal use question to the judge on the nature and quantity seized, the place and conditions of the act, the social and personal circumstances, and the conduct and record of the agent. The statute itself fixes no quantity figure. The Supremo Tribunal Federal decided Tema 506, leading case RE 635659, on 26 June 2024, and how far it reaches beyond cannabis is genuinely contested. Read the narrow way, item 1 of the thesis says that no criminal offence is committed by a person who acquires, keeps, has in deposit, transports or carries for personal consumption the substance cannabis sativa, naming that substance and no other, and the andamento of 24 August 2023 records the relator adjusting his vote to restrict the declaration of unconstitutionality to seizures of the narcotic substance dealt with in that appeal, cannabis sativa. Read the wide way, items 2 and 3 are not limited to cannabis on their face: item 2 says the article 28 I and III sanctions are applied by the judge in a procedure of non penal nature with no criminal repercussion for the conduct, and item 3 gives the Juizados Especiais Criminais competence over the conduct of article 28 with any penal effect of the sentence forbidden. Nor is the operative order limited on its face: the plenary declared the unconstitutionality, without reduction of text, of article 28 of Lei 11.343/2006, so as to remove from that provision each and every effect of a penal nature, keeping the measures it provides until specific legislation arrives. Which reading governs a substance other than cannabis was not settled by the documents read this pass, and nothing here decides it. [Guessing] as to the reach. What does not turn on it, and is [Certain] either way, is that article 28 has carried no custodial penalty since 2006. Supply is article 33: reclusao of 5 to 15 years and payment of 500 to 1,500 dias-multa. Article 33 paragraph 4 allows a reduction of one sixth to two thirds for a primary agent of good record who is not dedicated to criminal activity and does not belong to a criminal organisation. Article 34 puts equipment at 3 to 10 years, article 35 association at 3 to 10 years, article 36 financing at 8 to 20 years and article 37 informing at 2 to 6 years. Article 40 increases articles 33 to 37 by one sixth to two thirds on its seven listed grounds, transnationality and proximity to schools, prisons and hospitals among them. Article 40-A, inserted by Lei 15.358 de 2026, applies articles 33 to 37 in double where the agent is a member of an ultraviolent criminal organisation, a paramilitary group or a private militia. Doubling article 36 gives 16 to 40 years, and 40 years is the highest figure the statute produces on its own face. That is my derivation from the two articles as read, tagged [Certain] for each figure and [Guessing] for whether the article 40 increase then stacks on top of the doubled figure, which the text read here does not settle. Where the cannabidiol is plant derived rather than synthetic, the controlling list is lista E and not lista C1, and lista E is a proscription rather than a prescription tier, so the ladder above can reach plant derived material through the plant entry. For the synthetic lista C1 route the position is different. Neither the personal use provision nor the supply ladder is asserted against this row. The placement is lista C1, and whether article 28 and article 33 reach a lista C1 substance at all was not established. Both articles operate on the same word, drogas, which article 1 sole paragraph of Lei 11.343/2006 defines on two limbs: substances capable of causing dependence, and so specified in law or listed in lists periodically updated by the federal executive. Membership of a list satisfies the second limb only. Lista C1 was read in full this pass and its 213 entries include item 29 Celecoxibe, item 104 Loperamida, item 127 Misoprostol and item 172 Ribavirina, so list membership alone cannot be what makes a substance a droga. If it were, supplying a celecoxib tablet would be trafficking and holding one would be the article 28 offence. What does attach on the face of the regulation is the special control prescription regime and nothing else. A live cell for one of these rows stated the same thing, that a lista C1 medicine does not carry the trafficking penalties reserved for the narcotic and psychotropic lists, and that reading is preserved rather than overwritten. [Likely].
India
Legal status
No Indian placement was found for it: it is not named in the Act's Schedule (list of psychotropic substances), in the NDPS Rules 1985, in the Regulation of Controlled Substances Order 2013 or in the small and commercial quantity notification. Cannabidiol appears nowhere in the Act's Schedule, the NDPS Rules, the 2013 Order or the quantity notification.
Consequences if caught
Section 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985, the NDPS Act, punishes a contravention in relation to psychotropic substances in three quantity bands. A small quantity carries rigorous imprisonment which may extend to 1 year. A quantity greater than small but less than commercial carries rigorous imprisonment which may extend to 10 years. A commercial quantity carries rigorous imprisonment of 10 to 20 years, and that lower figure is a statutory minimum rather than a starting point. The fine runs with the band: up to 10,000 rupees at small quantity, up to 1 lakh rupees in the middle band, and 1 lakh to 2 lakh rupees at commercial quantity, and the court may record reasons for a higher fine. Section 27 punishes consumption, with rigorous imprisonment up to 1 year and a fine up to 20,000 rupees for cocaine, morphine, diacetylmorphine and any substance notified in that behalf, and imprisonment up to 6 months and a fine up to 10,000 rupees for anything else. Every offence under the Act is cognizable, but the section 37 bail bar reaches only sections 19, 24 and 27A and offences involving a commercial quantity. Section 31 raises the ceiling to one and one half times after a previous conviction, and section 64A gives an addict charged under section 27 or with a small quantity immunity on completing recognised de-addiction treatment. No band applies to this row, because the quantity notification carries no entry against which a small or commercial quantity could be measured. Section 31A does not reach this row: its table names only opium, morphine, heroin, codeine, thebaine, cocaine, hashish, LSD, the listed THC isomers, methamphetamine, methaqualone and amphetamine, with their salts and preparations, and this row is not among them. An imported full-spectrum oil is the risk case: if it carries tetrahydrocannabinol it engages serials 13 and 91 and their 2 g and 50 g, and if it came from charas or ganja it is cannabis in its own right, while a leaf-derived oil follows bhang and sits outside the definition. Indian cannabidiol products are sold under Drugs and Cosmetics or AYUSH licences, which is a medicines regime and not a narcotics one. Those figures are given because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as India's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical
Cannabidiol preparations are licensed in India under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940 and in Ayurvedic practice, and that regime applies alongside the NDPS Act by force of section 80.
Documentation
The question that decides an Indian CBD product is not the molecule but the plant part it came from: seeds and leaves not accompanied by the tops are outside the section 2(iii) definition, resin and flowering tops are inside it. India's essential narcotic drugs for medical and scientific use, notified under section 2(viiia) by S.O. 1181(E) of 5 May 2015, are codeine, fentanyl, hydrocodone, methadone, morphine and oxycodone; a traveller carrying one should carry the prescription with the original packaging, bring only a reasonable personal quantity and declare it at customs. Tramadol was added to the Act's psychotropic Schedule in 2018 and its commercial quantity is 250 g. This absence is stated as at the Central Bureau of Narcotics consolidation of the Act and Rules labelled updated 2026, which prints the Schedule as amended through S.O. 1730(E) of 16 April 2025, read with S.O. 906(E) of 18 February 2026, and it does not rule out a later notification.
Turkey
Legal status
CBD is absent from Turkey's closed narcotics list. The dossier ran a completed list search, «Arama kaydı: “cbd” adı, yaygın eş anlamlıları ve kimyasal adı 2313 sayılı Kanun kapsamındaki kararların tamamında arandı; tam kayıt bulunmadı.», the name, common synonyms and chemical name were searched across all the decisions made under Law No. 2313 and no exact entry was found. That verified absence means the narcotics schedule does not reach cannabidiol as a molecule, and it says nothing about unrestricted legality under other law. The other law here is substantial and specific. Article 3 of Law No. 2313 prohibits the preparation, import, export and sale of esrar in whatever form, and article 23 as amended by Law No. 7557 of 21 July 2025 subjects hemp growing for medicinal, health and personal care products to Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry permission, places licensing and registration of the resulting products with the Ministry of Health, and provides «Bu ürünler sadece eczanelerden satılabilir», these products may be sold only in pharmacies. So the molecule is unscheduled and the plant and the finished product are not unregulated.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No controlled drug capital, life or quantity rule attaches to cannabidiol itself, because the substance is absent from the closed narcotics list; separate regulatory law may still apply. Articles 188 and 191 of Penal Code No. 5237 therefore do not engage on the molecule, and neither the thirty year ceiling in 188(1) nor the two to five year use offence in 191(1) is in play for CBD as such. The exposure that does exist runs through what a product contains and how it was made rather than through CBD: a preparation found to contain a scheduled cannabinoid is charged on that substance, cultivation without permission is prohibited by article 23 of Law No. 2313 whatever the intended purpose, and cultivation to obtain esrar carries four to twelve years under the same article. The content of a product is settled by the analysis required under article 20 of Law No. 2313, not by the label percentage.
If prescribed / medical
Cannabis derived medicinal products have a lawful Turkish route and it is a pharmacy route. Article 23 of Law No. 2313 as amended in 2025 gives the Ministry of Health the licensing and registration of medicinal, health and personal care products obtained from hemp and confines their sale to pharmacies, with the procedures to be set by regulation made after consulting the interior and agriculture ministries. The dossier carried no prescription instrument for this row and made no finding on which CBD products hold a Turkish authorisation, so that question is for the TİTCK and is deferred here. A foreign prescription, and a foreign food supplement label, are neither of them Turkish authorisations.
Documentation
Do not treat an unscheduled molecule as a cleared product. A CBD oil, vape liquid or supplement bought abroad is an unanalysed cannabis derived preparation at a Turkish border, and the questions that will be asked concern its total cannabinoid content and its authorisation, neither of which a retail label answers. If a Turkish authorised product exists for the condition being treated, obtain it through a pharmacy in country; if travelling with a prescribed cannabis derived medicine, carry the original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a prescriber's letter and settle it with the TİTCK in advance. The verified absence was read in the dossier on 18 September 2026 and articles 3, 20 and 23 were read from the consolidated statute on 20 September 2026.
Egypt
Legal status
Controlled in Egypt, and named. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 3, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الثالث», item 61 is «كانابيديول» «Cannabidiol (CBD)», «2-[1R-3-methyl-6R-(1-methylethenyl)-2-cyclohexen-1-yl]-5-pentyl-1,3-benzenediol», added by Decision 242 of 2026 (Decision 242 PDF page 3, gazette page 11) and in force from 18 August 2026. Cannabidiol itself is a Table 3 substance. A CBD product that is an extract of the cannabis plant is also reached by Table 1 Section 2 item 54 «حشيش (قنب)», which covers «خلاصة نبات القنب أو خلاصة أي جزء منه مثل زيت الحشيش» (PDF page 14, gazette page 15), so which table governs a product turns on whether it is pure cannabidiol or a plant extract. Table 2 item 5 excepts cannabis extract preparations for external use only (PDF page 21, gazette page 22). No exemption for CBD appears in Table 6, the plant parts excepted from the law. The earlier citation of Anti-Narcotics Decree-Law No. 182 of 1960, as amended by Law 122/1989, is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none for pure cannabidiol, which is in Table 3; death for a product that is a cannabis plant extract, which is in Table 1, unless it is a Table 2 preparation for external use only. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». For cannabidiol: Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. For a cannabis extract, in the second section of Table 1: Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. It is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
Greece
Legal status
Not confirmed. Cannabidiol is not listed as a controlled substance. It is named only inside the analogue clause, and named there as one of the two parents whose psychotropic analogues that clause catches, which is the opposite of being caught by it. What the reading does find is entry 15 of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Β, the second table, an entry that names «κανναβιδιόλη (CBD)» and was placed by gazette 1403 B of 26 March 2025. So the live question for any given product is whether what is in it is cannabidiol or one of the psychotropic analogues the clause reaches, and that is a question about the material rather than about the list. The version read is the Ministry of Health consolidated edition of June 2026, and it does not rule out a later joint ministerial decision.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Greece abolished the death penalty for all crimes and no offence in the narcotics code carries it, which is carried forward from the published Greece entry and was not re-derived in this pass. Cannabidiol is not listed as a controlled substance. It is named only inside the analogue clause, and named there as one of the two parents whose psychotropic analogues that clause catches, which is the opposite of being caught by it. That is not a finding that the substance is lawful, and the reason matters. Article 1 paragraph 1 of Law 4139/2013 defines «ναρκωτικά» by what a substance does, by its action on the central nervous system and its capacity to cause dependence, and article 1 paragraph 2 then says those substances «περιλαμβάνονται ιδίως στους πίνακες», are included in particular in the tables. The word «ιδίως», in particular, is not the word a closed list takes. Against that, article 20 paragraph 2 defines the trafficking offence by reference to substances «που αναφέρονται στους πίνακες», referred to in the tables. The statute points two ways at once and this cell does not resolve it. That reading of article 1 and article 20 is carried forward from the published Greece entry and was not re-derived in this pass. Conduct, not the table a substance sits in, is what sorts the Greek drug offences. Article 29 paragraph 1 punishes obtaining, holding, using or growing for the offender's own exclusive use with «φυλάκιση μέχρι πέντε (5) μηνών», imprisonment of up to five months. There is no fixed gram threshold anywhere in the law. The court weighs instead the type, the purity, the quantity, the frequency and duration of use, the daily dose and the particular needs of the user. Article 29 paragraph 2 allows the court to leave the offender «ατιμώρητος», unpunished, where the act was entirely occasional and unlikely to be repeated, and paragraph 3 keeps such a conviction off the copies of the criminal record that are issued. Article 20 paragraph 1 punishes trafficking with «κάθειρξη τουλάχιστον οκτώ (8) ετών», at least eight years. The fine that goes with that article runs up to three hundred thousand euro. Article 22 raises the custodial minimum to ten years where the offence is committed by an official, inside a school, barracks, police cell, prison or sports ground, within a criminal organisation, or by a repeat offender. The fine under article 22 is fifty thousand to five hundred thousand euro. Article 21 drops the exposure to up to three years for a dependent person trafficking small amounts to cover their own use, or for supplying a relative without profit. Article 30 paragraph 4 treats dependence as a separate track: an article 29 offence goes unpunished, an article 20 offence falls to at least one year, and an article 22 offence falls to at most ten years. The ceiling in the code is life imprisonment, and it is article 23 that carries it. Article 23 paragraph 1 opens «Με ισόβια κάθειρξη ή με πρόσκαιρη κάθειρξη τουλάχιστον δέκα ετών», life imprisonment or a determinate sentence of at least ten years. The fine under that paragraph is fifty thousand to six hundred thousand euro. It applies where the substance can cause grievous bodily harm and did cause grievous harm or death to another or endangered the health of many, or where an adult acts professionally to bring a minor into use. Article 23 paragraph 2 opens «Με ισόβια κάθειρξη, καθώς και με χρηματική ποινή από πενήντα χιλιάδες ευρώ μέχρι ένα εκατομμύριο ευρώ τιμωρείται». That paragraph states no lesser alternative, so life imprisonment is the only sentence it offers. The fine it names runs from fifty thousand euro to one million euro. It applies to professional financing or professional trafficking where the expected gain exceeds seventy five thousand euro, and to using weapons during the offence or to escape. Every article number, Greek phrase and euro figure in this recital is carried forward from the published Greece entry and was not re-derived in this pass. Whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established, so they are recorded as Greece's published drug penalties and not as this row's exposure.
Portugal
Legal status
CBD (cannabidiol) from cannabis extract, tincture or resin is not permitted in consumer cosmetics or food; only hemp-seed-derived products (from varieties at or below 0.2% THC) are allowed, and CBD-containing medicinal cannabis requires marketing authorisation and a special prescription.
Consequences if caught
Infarmed has ordered the withdrawal of CBD cosmetic products derived from cannabis extract, and non-hemp-seed consumer CBD is not lawfully marketed.
If prescribed / medical
Cannabidiol-containing cannabis preparations for medicinal use are subject to marketing authorisation under Decree-Law No. 8/2019 and dispensed on special medical prescription; distinct from cannabis, which is decriminalised but remains illegal.
Documentation
Consumer extract-derived CBD is not legalised by documentation; medicinal cannabis requires a special medical prescription.
Not confirmed. Pure CBD is not named, but because CBD and THC are constitutional isomers and the heading uses the broad word “đồng phân” while General Note 2 elaborates only stereochemical cases, this build does not invent a definitive CBD inclusion or exclusion. The decree prints “Delta-9-tetrahydrocanabinol và ester …”. Constitutional isomerism between cannabidiol and the scheduled tetrahydrocannabinols is exactly what the general note does not resolve, so neither inclusion nor exclusion is asserted here. The dossier marks this row not verified, and that is the state this cell reports rather than a status it does not hold, because the Criminal Code reaches only a chất ma túy and whether that term covers this row is the unresolved question.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: not established. Pure CBD is not named, but because CBD and THC are constitutional isomers and the heading uses the broad word “đồng phân” while General Note 2 elaborates only stereochemical cases, this build does not invent a definitive CBD inclusion or exclusion. Because the schedule reach itself is unresolved, the dossier assigns no terminal article 248, 250 or 251 quantity to this row and asserts no death conclusion for producing, transporting or trading, and this cell does not supply one. One sourced observation is carried forward from the published 2cb entry and was not re-derived from the decree text in this pass: cannabidiol was not found in any danh mục when that entry was written. The dossier agrees that the name is absent and disagrees only about whether the isomer heading closes the question. What is settled for every substance in Vietnam, listed or not, is that transporting under article 250 lost the death penalty on 1 July 2025 and that possessing under article 249 and appropriating under article 252 never carried one. The five conducts the Criminal Code sorts are producing under article 248, possessing under article 249, transporting under article 250, trading under article 251 and appropriating under article 252.
If prescribed / medical
The dossier this cell is written from carries no prescription column, so no medical route for CBD is stated here and none was derived from anything else. There is no placement to attach either: the dossier does not print CBD in any of the four danh mục, and the published 2cb entry records the same absence. A substance outside the danh mục has no narcotics prescription route to describe, which is a different thing from saying it may be carried freely. Whether CBD can lawfully be prescribed in Vietnam, in what form, and what a traveller carrying it would have to show, is deferred and not answered here. This pass did not read Vietnam's pharmaceutical, import or customs rules, and a substance outside the narcotics law can still be refused at a border.
Documentation
Where the rule for CBD comes from, and how far it reaches in time. Two instruments do two different jobs. The list: Luật Phòng, chống ma túy số 73/2021/QH14, Điều 2 khoản 1, provides that a chất ma túy is a substance the Government has placed in the danh mục, so the Government and not the National Assembly decides what counts, and it does so by decree. The decree in force is Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, issued and effective 19 January 2026, whose Điều 3 khoản 2 repeals Nghị định 57/2022/NĐ-CP and Nghị định 90/2024/NĐ-CP, and whose Điều 1 reads “Ban hành kèm theo Nghị định này Phụ lục các danh mục chất ma túy và tiền chất sau đây”, that is, issued with this decree is the appendix containing the following lists of narcotics and precursors. The published 2cb entry counted that appendix as four danh mục in seven parts and 694 entries, a count carried forward here and not re-made in this pass. The offence: Bộ luật Hình sự số 100/2015/QH13 as amended by Luật số 86/2025/QH15, khoản 18 Điều 1, enacted 25 June 2025 and in force 1 July 2025, which substituted the drug articles in full and is the reason this cell separates the conducts instead of saying that Vietnam has the death penalty for drugs. The consolidated Criminal Code text read for the article wording is văn bản hợp nhất số 135/VBHN-VPQH. The search behind this row. The dossier's instrument column records the terms used as: “Cannabidiol”, “CBD” -> no exact entry; Delta-9-THC and other THC entries -> List IB; “đồng phân” + General Note 2.1 to 2.4 -> detailed stereochemical treatment, no explicit CBD ruling.. That is a record that somebody looked, and it is not a printed schedule entry. The published 2cb entry records the same row as not listed, which is carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass. The horizon. This cell is written as those lists stand after Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, and the dossier behind it records its own date checked as 17 September 2026. The power that moves the list is Điều 3 khoản 6 of the decree, which reads “Khi phát hiện chất mới chưa có trong các danh mục chất ma túy và tiền chất ban hành kèm theo Nghị định này … trình Chính phủ sửa đổi, bổ sung và công bố các danh mục đó.”, that is, when a new substance not yet in the lists is discovered, the Ministry of Public Security submits it to the Government to amend, supplement and publish the lists. What the text in hand incorporates is the 2026 appendix together with the Criminal Code as it stands after 1 July 2025, and nothing here was checked against an amendment published after 19 January 2026. This cell does not rule out a later amendment made under that power. Two limits of the source, stated because they bear on how much weight this row can take. The dossier has no search log column of its own, so on a row where nothing was found there is no way to tell a blank from a row nobody searched, and where its instrument column happens to record search terms that is a record of looking rather than a schedule entry. And the decree is a scanned signed document: the published 2cb entry records that it was rendered at 600 dots per inch and read with optical character recognition in Vietnamese, and that normalisation to NFC was needed before any Vietnamese string could be searched against the cached text, because the cache mixes composed and decomposed forms and a literal search returns a false zero. That method note is carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass.
Philippines
Legal status
Controlled as a cannabis extract, with one narrow medical exception. Entry 29, cannabis resin, extracts and tinctures, is on page 6 of the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists of Scheduled Controlled Substances as at 06 July 2025 in its 1961 Schedule I section. Board Regulation No. 3, Series of 2020 reclassifies "Drug products containing CBD with no more than 0.1 percent (0.1%) tetrahydrocannabinol" from Schedules 1 and 2 to Schedule 4 of the Philippine Schedule, which its own section 1(f) defines as "a category of dangerous drugs": such a product stays a dangerous drug. A drug product means one "in finished pharmaceutical dosage form", so CBD oils, gummies and other retail products are not reached by the reclassification, and the 0.1 percent figure is not a hemp allowance or a personal possession threshold. The signed copy records adoption on the 24th day of a month left blank in 2020, and its commencement, fifteen days after publication and registration, is not established.
Consequences if caught
Possession is section 11, measured "regardless of the degree of purity thereof". Section 11 sets bands for "marijuana resin or marijuana resin oil" (10 grams, 5 grams, and less than 5 grams) and for marijuana (500 grams, 300 grams, and less than 300 grams); which limb a court would apply to a CBD extract is not stated in the Act and was not established here, so no band is asserted. Section 13 imposes "the maximum penalties provided for in Section 11" on anyone found possessing a dangerous drug during a party, social gathering or meeting, or in the proximate company of at least two persons, "regardless of the quantity and purity", which is life imprisonment and a fine of PHP 500,000 to PHP 10,000,000. Importing or bringing a dangerous drug into the Philippines (section 4) and selling, giving away, delivering, distributing, transporting or brokering one (section 5) each carry life imprisonment and a fine of PHP 500,000 to PHP 10,000,000 "regardless of the quantity and purity involved", and manufacture (section 8) carries the same penalty. Each applies "unless authorized by law". Use is section 15: after a confirmatory test, a minimum of six months' rehabilitation in a government centre for a first offence, and 6 years and 1 day to 12 years with a fine of PHP 50,000 to PHP 200,000 for a second. RA 9165 prints "life imprisonment to death" in its penalty clauses, among them sections 4, 5, 8, 11 and 16. Republic Act No. 9346 of 24 June 2006 provides in section 1 that "The imposition of the penalty of death is hereby prohibited" and in section 2(b) substitutes life imprisonment where the law violated does not use the nomenclature of the Revised Penal Code, which RA 9165 does not. Section 98 of RA 9165 applies Revised Penal Code nomenclature to a minor offender, "reclusion perpetua to death", so for a minor RA 9346 section 2(a) substitutes reclusion perpetua. No drug offence carries death, and the fines set by RA 9165 are unchanged.
If prescribed / medical
Under Board Regulation No. 3, Series of 2020 only a physician with an S2 licence who belongs to a neurology specialty division or society may prescribe a qualifying CBD drug product, on the Department of Health special prescription form, which section 5(c) also requires for the Authorization application; whether Board Regulation No. 10, Series of 2025, as extended by Board Regulation No. 5, Series of 2026, displaces that form for CBD products is not established. The patient needs an Authorization from the Dangerous Drugs Board, with a PHP 500 fee, alongside a Compassionate Special Permit from the FDA.
Switzerland
Legal status
Not scheduled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI records no entry for CBD. The German search term checked was „Cannabidiol (CBD)“, and nothing was found in lists a to e, nor does any article 1(2) extension for salts, esters, ethers, carbamates, stereoisomers or preparations reach it from a listed substance. Swiss control is closed, so absence from the lists is a substantive answer and not an oversight, but it is a narrow one: this row proves only that the drug schedules do not carry CBD, and separate product, medicines, food, tobacco or poisons law may still apply. A cannabidiol product can still be caught through its residual THC content, which is a different entry and a different question from this one.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Switzerland has no death penalty, and on this row there is no BetmG article 19 ceiling at all, because the negative closed list result proved for CBD under the search term „Cannabidiol (CBD)“ means the drug act's offence articles are not engaged by the substance itself. Neither the aggravated forms in article 19(2) nor the 20 year maximum that StGB article 40 supplies for drug offences attaches here, and nothing in lists a to e nor any article 1(2) extension reaches it from a listed substance. A cannabidiol product can still be caught through its residual THC content, which is a different entry and a different question from this one.
If prescribed / medical
CBD is not carried in lists a to e of BetmVV-EDI, the search under „Cannabidiol (CBD)“ having returned nothing, so there is no controlled substance authorisation to obtain for it, and the one country level rule this dossier establishes does not bite. That rule is the personal use regime: BetmG article 19a punishes unauthorised consumption of a controlled substance, article 19b makes a negligible quantity prepared for one's own consumption nonpunishable, and article 19b(2) fixes that quantity at 10 g of cannabis alone. None of those articles reaches an unscheduled substance such as CBD. No Swiss prescription route or traveller certificate for it was established in this dossier, and any medicines law requirement attaching to the product form was outside what this build verified.
Documentation
Carry CBD only in the form and quantity the rest of Swiss law allows, because this row settles the drug schedules and nothing else, and keep any prescribed product in its original packaging with the prescription so that the product form can be identified at a control. The provenance is the negative search of the EDI ordinance BetmVV-EDI under „Cannabidiol (CBD)“, run across lists a to e and the article 1 extensions in the German consolidation dated 13 March 2026, read at Fedlex on 18 September 2026, with the 94 page compilation read through its final page so that no further drug schedule was left unchecked.
Switzerland, CBD: BetmVV-EDI article 1 with Annexes 1 to 6 covering lists a to e, negative search under „Cannabidiol (CBD)“, at https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2011/363/de · Updated September 20, 2026
Czechia
Legal status
Not listed. CBD is not printed as an entry in any of the eight seznamy of nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. o seznamech návykových látek, nor in the annex to nařízení vlády č. 456/2025 Sb. o seznamu psychomodulačních látek, nor in the annex to nařízení vlády č. 11/2025 Sb. o seznamu zařazených psychoaktivních látek. A full text search of the consolidated nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. for kanabidiol and for the three letter abbreviation returns nothing in any of the eight seznamy, and neither term appears in either 2025 list. The lists do carry cannabis, cannabis resin, four cannabis for medical use entries and a long run of tetrahydrocannabinols and hexahydrocannabinols, so the family is well represented and this particular cannabinoid is simply not among the named entries. The nearest thing to a threshold in the instrument is the note on „Konopí extrakt a tinktura“, which excepts extract and tincture containing one per cent of substances from the tetrahydrocannabinol group and meeting the general product safety condition. The finding is an absence read off the printed lists rather than an inference from silence about a family. This absence is stated as those lists stand after nařízení vlády č. 107/2026 Sb. which is consolidated version 17 of nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. and consolidated version 4 of nařízení vlády č. 11/2025 Sb. both in force from 25 June 2026, and consolidated version 1 of nařízení vlády č. 456/2025 Sb. in force from 12 November 2025, each read at zakonyprolidy.cz on 21 September 2026. It does not rule out a later amendment.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 6(3) of the Listina základních práv a svobod, ústavní zákon č. 2/1993 Sb. reads „Trest smrti se nepřipouští“, the death penalty is not permitted, so no Czech drug provision carries one. No Czech drug ceiling attaches to this row through the seznamy of návykové látky, because the substance is not printed in them, so no ceiling article is named for it here. Nothing in the instrument stands behind this row: kanabidiol returns no hit, while the same instrument prints tetrahydrokanabinol, hexahydrokanabinol and dronabinol as separate entries, so the family is covered and this cannabinoid is left out of it. On quantity, no greater than small figure was published for this row in the sources reachable for it, and none is invented here. The fine is separate from every custodial band above. Holding no more than a small amount for personal use is an administrative misdemeanour rather than a crime, and the live cell records the penalty for that misdemeanour as a fine of up to CZK 15,000. Read in the consolidated Criminal Code, § 283 odst. 1 sets one to five years for unlawful production, import, offer, sale or holding for another, § 283 odst. 2 sets two to ten years for the first aggravated tier and § 283 odst. 4 sets eight to eighteen years for the gravest. Possession above a small amount for one's own use is § 284, up to two years at odst. 1, six months to five years at odst. 2 and two to eight years at odst. 3. Growing or processing a plant or fungus for one's own use, and other dealing with it for one's own use, is § 285, whose odst. 2 is cannabis possession at more than 200 g in the dwelling or more than 50 g away from it, and whose bands are up to six months at odst. 1 and odst. 2, up to three years at odst. 4 and six months to five years at odst. 5. Making, obtaining or holding a precursor or other object intended for unlawful manufacture is § 286, up to five years at odst. 1 and two to ten years at odst. 2. The live cell stated these as up to one year for cannabis and up to two years for other drugs under § 284, six months to five years under § 285, and one to ten years under § 283 rising to eighteen in aggravated cases, and those live figures are carried forward here beside the bands re-derived from the consolidated text. Those bands and that fine are set out here because the live cell carried them, and this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Czechia's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
Uruguay
Legal status
Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. Cannabidiol is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: anchored searches on cannabidiol and on cbd across all 526 entries returned no entry; the cannabis entries that exist are cannabis and resina de cannabis y extractos y tinturas de cannabis at Lista Amarilla in Anexo I, and the six THC isomers, dronabinol and hexahidrocannabinol in Anexo II. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being a non-intoxicating cannabinoid, and no cannabinoid group exists in Anexo II. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Argentina
Legal status
Not confirmed. The estupefaciente lists were read in full and do not name it, but that is not the whole answer for this row, so no status is asserted here. This does not rule out a later decree substituting or amending either annex, and it does not rule out a placement under some instrument other than these two.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass from the consolidated text of Ley 23.737 published by InfoLEG: the words muerte and perpetua each return zero hits across the whole Act, so it carries neither a capital route nor a life route, and the heaviest term anywhere in it is the eight to twenty years of article 7. The scope of that measurement is this Act. It is not a statement about any other body of Argentine law. [Certain] Argentina places substances by delegated executive list. Article 40 of Ley 23.737 rewrote the last paragraph of article 77 of the Penal Code to read that el término estupefacientes comprende los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias susceptibles de producir dependencia física o psíquica que se incluyan en las listas que se elaboren y actualicen periódicamente por decreto del Poder Ejecutivo nacional. Article 2 of Decreto 560/2019 then makes that a dual list: it considers estupefacientes las sustancias incluidas en la lista del Anexo I y las sustancias que queden incluidas en los grupos químicos de la lista del Anexo II. Anexo I was substituted by Decreto 122/2026, published 02/03/2026, and now runs to 886 numbered rows. Anexo II carries seventeen chemical groups and has not been substituted. A search of Ley 23.737 for a substance name is therefore not a scheduling result. [Certain] No entry names it. Spanish and chemical terms searched: cannabidiol; canabidiol; CBD. There was therefore no entry text to read. [Certain] The alphabetical neighbours were read: Fila 303 Camazepam and Fila 304 Cannabis y resina de cannabis y extractos y tinturas de cannabis, with no row between them. Two relatives are listed, Fila 526 Hidrocannabidiol with the synonyms H4-CBD and Tetrahidrocannabidiol, and Fila 837 Tetrahidrocannabidiol with the synonym THCBD, which shows the drafters considered this family and listed the hydrogenated forms rather than the parent. The Fila 304 entry does reach extractos y tinturas de cannabis, so a preparation that is a cannabis extract engages that entry whatever the cannabidiol content. That is why this row is a deferral and not a finding: the name is measurably absent, but a bare negative would mislead a traveller carrying an extract. [Certain] The list read for this row is the complete Anexo I, all 886 numbered rows, taken from the text-layer PDF that the Boletín Oficial publishes and that the decree's own NOTA names as the place its annexes appear. Its sha256 is 197fce006cd7388d4eb06adae573487d2fe820976f55f242d0623e3215deca62 and a copy is kept at research/instruments/argentina/. The low resolution image served on the two normativa pages omits one page of that annex, Fila 614 to 651; the Boletín Oficial PDF does not, and every figure here was read from the PDF. [Certain] The negative above does not rest on predicting where the name would sort. Every entry name on every published page of the current Anexo I was read in this pass, Fila 1 to 613 and Fila 652 to 886, and none of the terms above appears as an entry name. A machine transcription of the same image was then searched for the same stems as a second pass; it returned matches only inside the chemical name columns of other rows and none as an entry name, which corroborates the read without replacing it. [Certain] An unmatched row is unresolved, not absent from the law. The searches above were run in Spanish against the entry names of the current Anexo I and against the seventeen group definitions of Anexo II, as at the Anexo I substituted by Decreto 122/2026, published 02/03/2026, read together with Anexo II of Decreto 560/2019, which was the current text when this cell was written. This does not rule out a later decree substituting or amending either annex, and it does not rule out a placement under some instrument other than these two. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass from the articles themselves. Article 14 first paragraph sets prisión de uno a seis años, one to six years, and a fine for anyone who holds estupefacientes. Article 14 second paragraph reduces that to un mes a dos años, one month to two years, when, por su escasa cantidad y demás circunstancias, surgiere inequívocamente que la tenencia es para uso personal. Article 5 sets prisión de cuatro (4) a quince (15) años, four to fifteen years, y multa de cuarenta y cinco (45) a novecientas (900) unidades fijas, for anyone acting sin autorización o con destino ilegítimo who sows or cultivates, produces, manufactures, extracts or prepares, trades or holds for the purposes of trade, distributes, gives in payment, stores or transports, or delivers, supplies, applies or facilitates to others for payment. A delivery free of charge is tres (3) a doce (12) años, three to twelve years. Article 5 drops to un mes a dos años, one month to two years, where the escasa cantidad sown or cultivated shows unequivocally it was to obtain estupefacientes for the person's own consumption, and to seis (6) meses a tres (3) años, six months to three years, where a free and occasional supply was plainly for the recipient's own use. Article 6 sets the same four to fifteen years for importing and then illegitimately altering the declared destination, dropping to three to twelve years where the quantity shows unequivocally the goods were not for trade. Article 7 sets prisión de ocho (8) a veinte (20) años, eight to twenty years, y multa de noventa (90) a mil ochocientas (1.800) unidades fijas for organising or financing any of the article 5 or article 6 activities. Article 11 raises the penalties in the preceding articles en un tercio del máximo a la mitad del mínimo for its six listed aggravations, among them use of a person under eighteen, violence or deceit, three or more organised participants, and commission near a school, a health centre, a place of detention or a sporting or cultural institution, and the same sentence caps the increase in its own words, sin que las mismas puedan exceder el máximo legal de la especie de pena de que se trate. Arithmetic on article 7 plus article 11 gives twenty six years and eight months, which is a derivation and not a figure the Act states, and the species cap governs it. Article 17 lets the court suspend the sentence in an article 14 second paragraph case where personal use and dependence are proved and order a curative measure instead, and a satisfactory result exempts the person from the penalty. Article 16 adds a curative measure to the sentence of any dependent person convicted of any offence. The figures in the preceding sentences are the penalties Argentina publishes for offences involving estupefacientes. They are stated here so that nothing is dropped, and they are not this row's exposure, because whether any of those offences reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. [Likely] Carried from the live cell rather than re-derived here, because the ruling is not on the instrument pages read in this pass: the 2009 Corte Suprema decision in Arriola held the article 14 second paragraph penalty unconstitutional for consumption in private that harms nobody else, under article 19 of the Constitution. That ruling binds its own case. Lower courts vary, police still arrest, and the statute fixes no gram threshold, so decriminalised is not legalised and sale and purchase remain criminal.
Colombia
Legal status
Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for cannabidiol, canabidiol or CBD as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for cannabidiol, canabidiol or CBD. Anexo Técnico 1 numbers its 469 entries consecutively from 1 to 469 with no gap, so the absence was confirmed by reading the whole of it: a sweep of every entry name and every chemical name returns no hit for this substance.. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because cannabidiol is a distinct cannabinoid rather than an isomer or a stereochemical variant of tetrahidrocannabinol. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] Entry 135 is not silent about non-psychoactive derivatives. Its own text says that for the acquisition of non-psychoactive cannabis derivatives the procedures in Resolución 1478 de 2006, or the rules replacing it, do not apply, and it brings within the entry cannabis derivatives containing THC, its isomers and acid forms, at or above 0.2 per cent. So a CBD preparation at or above that THC content falls inside the cannabis entry.
Costa Rica
Legal status
Not confirmed. The placement for this row is not established, and the position is open rather than negative. Article 1 of Ley 7786, as integrally reformed by Ley 8204, fixes the scope by reference to the substances included in the 1961 and 1971 Conventions and the 1988 Convention, and the Ministerio de Salud reproduces those listas in Spanish in its national fiscalizacion list and adds a short Otros agregados section of national additions. Both limbs were searched for this row and neither returns an entry. The cannabis entry in Lista I of the 1961 Convention reaches the flowering or fruiting tops of the plant, so the practical question for a cannabidiol product is whether it is plant material within that entry or an isolated compound outside it, and the list does not answer that. [Likely] that the row is not currently reached, not [Certain]. The search log is in the documentation.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 21 of the Constitution provides "La vida humana es inviolable", the human life is inviolable, and the word "muerte" appears zero times across the 81 pages of the consolidated Act. Both of those were measured in this pass and together they are what carries the heading. Costa Rica is an abolitionist state of long standing, [Likely] on the nineteenth century date, which was not re-derived here. Costa Rica publishes these penalties for drug trafficking. Article 58 carries eight to fifteen years for unauthorised distribution, commerce, supply, manufacture, transport, storage or sale, and article 77 raises that to eight to twenty years on an enumerated aggravation. Those are the country's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether either offence reaches CBD is exactly what was not established. The second paragraph of article 58 reaches possession only "para cualquiera de los fines expresados", that is possession for one of those trafficking purposes. Ley 7786 creates no offence of consumption and no offence of simple possession for personal use. Article 79 answers a person consuming in a public place with voluntary and free treatment in a public or private health centre, not with a penalty.
If prescribed / medical
The prescription position follows the placement, and the placement is what was not settled. Article 58 turns on the words "sin autorizacion legal", so a Costa Rican authorisation is what matters if the substance is reached at all. Article 2 confines handling of the substances the Act covers to medical, analytical and research quantities on official forms issued by the Ministerio de Salud under Decreto 45161-S of 17 June 2025.
Documentation
Consolidation read: Ley 7786 of 30 April 1998 as integrally reformed by Ley 8204, in the Texto Completo Norma 8204 print published by the Instituto Costarricense sobre Drogas, which carries its own generation date of 19 November 2018. The same ranges, ocho a quince anos in article 58 and de ocho a veinte anos in article 77, were independently read on 18 September 2026 against the later Sinalevi record of Ley 7786, version 13 of 13, so the 2018 print is corroborated rather than assumed current. Control model, re derived from the statute in this pass. Costa Rica prints no annex of controlled substances in its drug Act: across the 81 pages the only drug names anywhere are in article 96, on the disposal of seized marihuana, cocaina and heroina. Article 1 regulates "estupefacientes, psicotropicos, sustancias inhalables y demas drogas y farmacos susceptibles de producir dependencias fisicas o psiquicas, incluidos en la Convencion Unica sobre Estupefacientes... de 1961... asi como en el Convenio de Viena sobre Sustancias Psicotropicas, de 21 de febrero de 1971... asimismo, en la Convencion... de 1988". Its second paragraph is a different thing and is often misread as the control annex: it has the Ministerio de Salud and the MAG draw up and publish in La Gaceta "las listas de estupefacientes, psicotropicos y similares Licitos", the licit ones, which is the authorisation side. The incorporation is ambulatory: article 36 defines precursors as Cuadro I of the 1988 Convention "y sus anexos, asi como los que se le incorporen en el futuro", and article 100 gives the Instituto Costarricense sobre Drogas a mandate framed by the conventions and by "los listados oficiales, publicados periodicamente en La Gaceta". The second limb, measured. The national list is the Lista de sustancias sometidas a fiscalizacion nacional, incluidos los medicamentos psicotropicos y estupefacientes, Direccion de Drogas y Estupefacientes of the Ministerio de Salud, updated 10 September 2026 and signed that day by Dra. Mariela Alfaro Segura. It runs to 27 pages in three sections, estupefacientes, psicotropicos and Otros agregados, and it names its own legal basis as the Reglamento para el control de drogas, estupefacientes y psicotropicas N. 45161-S, the instrument cited elsewhere as Decreto 45161-S of 17 June 2025. The two titles are the same text. A reading of 18 September 2026 records that the decree gives the competent body the function "Elaborar y actualizar la lista de sustancias oficialmente consideradas estupefacientes o psicotropicos y similares de uso regulado" and that its five annexes are forms rather than a substance schedule; that quotation is carried from that reading and was not re derived here. The whole of Otros agregados is twelve entries: metilfenidato, tapentadol and the synthetic cannabinoid JWH-073 among the estupefacientes, and ketamina, esketamina, mexazolam, zaleplon, zopiclona and the piperazines mCPP, CPP, TFMPP and 1,4 dibencilpiperazina among the psicotropicos. Amending Act in force between that list and this reading, read in the official gazette in this pass. Ley 10961 of 9 June 2026, published in Alcance 78 to La Gaceta 113 of 19 June 2026, provides "Rige tres meses a partir de su publicacion" and so took effect on 19 September 2026. It runs to four articles: it adds article 15 quater to Ley 7786 on the anti-money-laundering duties of virtual asset service providers, carries that cross reference into articles 16, 16 bis, 25, 33, 33 bis, 86 and 123, reforms the article 81 administrative fines, and allows three months for regulations. Every Ley 7786 article it touches is money laundering machinery, and it leaves articles 1, 2, 36, 58, 73, 74, 77, 77 bis and 79 untouched, so it moves no row in this batch. Method note. The 2026-09-20 Costa Rica dossier was used only as the slug list and as one of the two term list sources. Its outcome column, its instrument column and its quotation column were not treated as evidence and no placement in this batch rests on them; every placement is the entry read in the list the statute incorporates. Two of its readings were not adopted: it treated ergometrina and ergina as one row when they are separate substances on separate limbs, and it left dextrometorfano unresolved when the instrument excludes it in terms. Sibling name traps were checked rather than assumed. Anchored matching correctly did not return bencilmorfina, desomorfina, dihidromorfina, metildihidromorfina, mirofina or diacetilmorfina for the morfina row, isometadona, normetadona or the metadona intermediario for the metadona row, metcatinona or 4-metiletcatinona for the catinona row, MMDA or N-etil MDA for the MDA row, beta-ceto-MDMA for the MDMA row, levometanfetamina for the metanfetamina row, PCPY for the PCP row, brolanfetamina for the anfetamina row, or norpseudoefedrina for the efedrina row. Two extraction zeroes were false and were recovered by re interrogation: hexahidrocannabinol and 2-fluorodescloroketamina are both line wrapped in the source and a column based read missed both. Routes run for the instrument in this pass. pgrweb.go.cr/scij is a JavaScript shell: the Ley 8204 and Ley 7786 records and the sinalevi.go.cr record each returned about 25 KB that renders to 1,159 characters of site chrome and no statutory text, so a size threshold would have cleared all three. imprentanacional.go.cr served the official gazette carrying Ley 10961. The institutional reproduction at icd.go.cr served the consolidated Act, and ministeriodesalud.go.cr served the national list and the circulars. The schedule pages were checked for hidden content: the list PDF holds one image object repeated on all 27 pages, which is the ministry letterhead, and its byte size is accounted for by that banner, so no entry is carried in an image. Search log for this row: the names "Cannabidiol" and "Canabidiol" were searched across all three sections of the national list and neither appears. The cannabis entry in Lista I of the 1961 Convention reaches the flowering or fruiting tops of the plant, so the practical question for a cannabidiol product is whether it is plant material within that entry or an isolated compound outside it, and the list does not answer that. The reading is as at the national list of 10 September 2026 and the Convention listas it reproduces, and it does not rule out a later list or a later national addition. Nothing here is a finding that CBD is uncontrolled. Carry any prescription and its dispensing label, and treat the position as open rather than settled. Sourcing, re derived in this pass and not carried: the two Junta de Vigilancia de Drogas urls cited by this row are DIRECTORIES and not documents. The listing page names the national fiscalisation list but does not carry it; the list is a separate PDF behind a numbered link, and that PDF is what the placement in this row actually rests on. Both documents are now fetched and cited by their own urls: "Lista de sustancias sometidas a fiscalizacion nacional, incluidos los medicamentos psicotropicos y estupefacientes", and "Lista de Estupefacientes y Sustancias Psicotropicas Sometidas a Fiscalizacion Nacional". The first carries the Otros agregados section this row's reasoning refers to [Certain, read from the fetched PDF]. The circulars page cited alongside them exposes no document at all.
Dominican Republic
Legal status
Not confirmed. Cannabidiol has no entry of its own in the Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, and it is not a tetrahydrocannabinol, so the plural entry «Tetrahidrocanabinoles» at number 21 of acápite III of Categoría I does not reach it by its own words. What may reach it is the definition: acápite XXIX of article 2 defines «Marihuana» to include every compound, product, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of the Cannabis Sativa L. plant, its seeds or its resin, while excluding the mature stalks, the fibre from them and the oil or paste made from the seeds. A plant derived cannabidiol preparation is on the face of that definition a derivative of the plant. A synthetic one, or one made from seed oil, is on the face of the same definition outside it. The law prints no THC percentage, no hemp threshold and no industrial exemption, so the question turns on a fact about the product rather than on a figure in the statute.
Consequences if caught
Because the routing depends on how the material was made, the same bottle may be inside or outside the definition depending on facts a traveller cannot show at a border. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
Jamaica
Legal status
No current named entry for CBD was proved in the Dangerous Drugs Act. The two cannabis wordings the Act does carry are the section 2 definition of ganja, «all parts of the plant known as cannabis sativa from which the resin has not been extracted and includes any resin obtained from that plant», and section 10(1)(b), «any extract or tincture of the plant cannabis sativa». Neither names an isolated or synthesised cannabinoid, and an isolate is neither plant material nor a resin, so whether it falls inside the phrase extract or tincture is a question the printed words do not answer. The searches recorded for this row ran «cannabidiol», «cbd», spelling variants and the chemical name across the consolidated text and returned no named entry and no closed group rule. The row tests cannabidiol independently and does not inherit cannabis or THC status. This cell therefore asserts no placement, and the answer will turn on what the laboratory certificate says the material is.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The words death, capital and hanging appear nowhere in the 43 page consolidated Dangerous Drugs Act, and every penalty limb in it stops at imprisonment: thirty five years on conviction before a Circuit Court under sections 7B, 8A and 8B, and five years or less on summary conviction before a Resident Magistrate. No penalty limb is assigned to this row, because no placement was proved and a ceiling copied across from a neighbouring row would be an invention. The searches recorded were «cannabidiol», «cbd», spelling variants and the chemical name, and the row tests cannabidiol independently and does not inherit cannabis or THC status. If an identification or a Ministerial order under section 11 were to bring the material within Part IV, sections 8A and 8B would carry the thirty five year Circuit Court ceiling and the summary alternative of a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars or five years. If it were identified as ganja or its resin, the ounce based scale in sections 7B and 7C would apply instead. Neither of those is asserted here.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is described for this substance in the Dangerous Drugs Act, and the Act supplies the only traveller rule this citation can carry: possession of a Part IV drug is lawful only as authorized by a licence or under regulations made under section 9, and section 15 governs a dangerous drug brought to the Island in transit. No schedule placement attaches to this row on the face of this instrument, so nothing in the Act tells a traveller which authorisation, if any, would be the right one to hold. The term recorded for this row in the compilation is «cannabidiol», and the identification question that has to be settled before any authorisation answer is given is the one this row was drawn around, which tests cannabidiol independently and does not inherit cannabis or THC status.
Documentation
Do not read the absence of an entry as permission. Ask the Ministry of Justice or the nearest Jamaican mission whether a Ministerial order under section 11, or any medicines or pharmacy instrument outside this Act, reaches this substance, and ask before travelling rather than on arrival. If you carry it as a medicine, bring the original packaging, the prescription and a letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period. When you confirm this row, ask the question it turns on, namely whether the answer tests cannabidiol independently and does not inherit cannabis or THC status. The searches relied on here, «cannabidiol», «cbd», spelling variants and the chemical name, were read on 20 September 2026.
Ireland
Legal status
Not a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: No controlled-drug schedule as pure CBD; 2010 Act s. 1 capacity test. The wording relied on is “which has, when consumed by a person, the capacity to”, and it is an exclusion or a statutory test rather than a listing. Pure CBD is not named in the schedules, and the 2010 Act reaches it only if the product actually meets the statutory psychoactivity definition. The finding recorded here is an absence from Schedules 1 to 5, which is not the same thing as a permission, because the 2010 Act is a separate regime that turns on what a product does and how it is supplied rather than on a list. The point this row turns on is that the 2010 Act reaches a product only if the product actually satisfies the section 1 definition, which is a matter of proof about that product. The delta-8-THC, THC-P and cannabinol rows in this table sit in Schedule 1 instead, so a cannabis-derived product is not all one question and this row is about pure CBD only.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Ireland has no death penalty, so nothing on this row can reach one. The exposure that runs is not a Misuse of Drugs Act exposure at all, because the placement recorded for this row reads: No controlled-drug schedule as pure CBD; 2010 Act s. 1 capacity test. No ceiling under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 attaches to this row at all, because that Act reaches only a controlled drug and this row is not one. What remains is the 2010 Act, and it is not a list: section 1 asks whether the thing has the capacity to affect a person's mental functioning when consumed, section 3 reaches selling, importing or exporting it for human consumption, and section 20 permits up to 5 years on indictment where those elements are proved and no section 2 exclusion applies. Mere possession is not an offence on that route. The source's own ceiling line for this row reads: No 1977 Act controlled-drug ceiling attaches to cbd; where the section 1 capacity and section 3 human-consumption elements are proved and no section 2 exclusion applies, section 20 permits up to 5 years on indictment, not a possession offence. Read as at 20 September 2026. These are the statutory ceilings the source records and they are not a prediction of what any court would impose.
If prescribed / medical
Not established for Ireland in the source read here, and deferred rather than guessed. The dossier this cell was authored from carries no prescription column and no traveller column, and no source for one, so nothing is asserted about whether a visitor may bring CBD into Ireland, what a foreign prescription is worth at an Irish border, or what licence, certificate or authorisation Ireland requires for it. That was not researched and it is not inferred here. What the row does establish is its placement, which reads: No controlled-drug schedule as pure CBD; 2010 Act s. 1 capacity test. Attached to this substance, the wording read for it is “which has, when consumed by a person, the capacity to”, and that is a scheduling record rather than anything about medicine. This row's own words record no medical limb, no exemption and no prescribing route of any kind, so there is nothing in it to attach to even conditionally. A scheduling fact is not a prescribing route, and the silence in this field is an absence of research rather than a permission.
Austria
Legal status
Not a designated drug in Austria, and the reason is a finding rather than a silence. Pure cannabidiol is not named in the narcotics or psychotrope lists; its open ring structure is neither a tetrahydrocannabinol positional isomer nor one of the specified closed ring NPS cannabinoid cores, and the EU novel food regulation permits only authorised novel foods on the Union list to be marketed on the conditions that list sets. That is three separate negative findings and one positive obligation. Cannabis extracts, medicinal products and novel food uses each require their own conditions, so a CBD product is not automatically lawful because the molecule is unlisted.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. This row sits outside the drug ladder altogether, so neither the life ceiling in SMG §28a(5) nor any lesser SMG tier arises, and Austria has abolished capital punishment. CBD carries no SMG tier on the molecule itself, while the extract it came from may carry one, which is why the source material matters more than the cannabidiol content. Enforcement therefore runs through the authority that polices that instrument rather than through a drug prosecution, and the offence elements are the instrument's own. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Austria entry rather than re-derived from the Suchtmittelgesetz in this pass, the published penalties are these. Austrian practice is depenalised and not legalised, and the published entry says so in those terms. There is no legal minimum quantity, and possession of any amount for personal use is punishable under section 27, up to six months in prison or a fine. Under Therapie statt Strafe at section 35, small quantity personal use is typically provisionally suspended from prosecution on one to two years of probation where the person accepts counselling or treatment. Consumption itself is not criminalised, but the possession that precedes it is. Above the Grenzmenge, the threshold quantity, the offence becomes dealing or trafficking under sections 28 and 28a, up to one to three years, escalating to ten to fifteen years for commercial or organised cases. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. This row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Austria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical
Austria publishes no per substance traveller route. SMG §5(1) is the single rule: a Suchtmittel may be handled only for medical, dental, veterinary or scientific purposes and only as the Act allows, with the travel, licensing and dispensing exemptions each governed by their own provisions. Because this is not a Suchtmittel at all, the authorized purpose rule in SMG §5(1) does not reach it, and neither the psychotrope medicine exception in SMG §30(3) nor the travel certificate fields closing the Psychotropenverordnung's Annexes 2 and 3 have anything to attach to. CBD is not a Suchtmittel, so no drug travel rule applies to it; a CBD medicinal product would be answered by the medicines act instead.
Poland
Legal status
Not named in the Polish national list. Cannabidiol appears in none of the three annexes, so the isolated compound is not a narcotic, a psychotropic or a new psychoactive substance under the 2005 Act. The control that reaches a CBD product comes from the cannabis material entries and from the hemp threshold, not from an entry for cannabidiol.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Poland has no death penalty, and no drug offence attaches to this row at all on the list as read. No offence attaches to cannabidiol as such on the list as read. Material is a different matter: «KONOPI ZIELE innych niż włókniste» at lp. 113 of group I-N reaches hemp other than fibrous hemp and every extract of it, so whether a product is lawful turns on the fibrous hemp threshold rather than on the cannabidiol. Where a product is above that threshold it is the listed plant material, and the band that then applies is the one article 62(1) sets for possession, up to three years, rising under article 62(2) to one year to ten years for a considerable quantity. The published Poland entry records that threshold as 0.3 per cent THC, raised from 0.2 per cent by the 2022 amendment to the 2005 Act, and it cites Dz.U. 2022 poz. 763. Those figures are carried forward from the published Poland entry and were not re-derived in this pass. This absence is stated as at the consolidated text of 17 June 2024, Dz.U. 2024 poz. 1139, as that text stands after the amending regulations of 30 April 2025, Dz.U. 2025 poz. 598, and of 7 July 2026, Dz.U. 2026 poz. 934, read at api.sejm.gov.pl on 21 September 2026. The power to move the list belongs to the Minister of Health, exercised by rozporządzenie under article 44f of the 2005 Act, and that does not rule out a later rozporządzenie made after the date of this reading.
If prescribed / medical
Medical cannabis, including cannabidiol containing raw material, has been dispensed on prescription in Poland since 1 November 2017. A food supplement or cosmetic route is separate and is not a prescription question.
Documentation
Carry documentation showing the THC content of any hemp product. A prescribed cannabis medicine travels with its prescription.
Rozporządzenie Ministra Zdrowia z dnia 17 sierpnia 2018 r. w sprawie wykazu substancji psychotropowych, środków odurzających oraz nowych substancji psychoaktywnych, tekst jednolity Dz.U. 2024 poz. 1139 · api.sejm.gov.pl · Rozporządzenie Ministra Zdrowia z dnia 30 kwietnia 2025 r. zmieniające to rozporządzenie, Dz.U. 2025 poz. 598, w mocy od 22 maja 2025 r. · Updated September 21, 2026
Croatia
Legal status
Controlled in Croatia only through the material it comes from, and named in the Popis only to be taken out of a class. CBD is not named in the Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te tvari koje se mogu uporabiti za izradu droga, NN 19/2023, and was not added by its amendment NN 154/2024. The entry it is reached through is »dibenzopirani« at Odjeljak 1. of the psychotropic list, the section for substances under Schedule 1 of the 1971 Convention, printed in English as »dibenzopyranes«, whose description column opens »Spojevi strukturno izvedeni iz kanabinola (izuzev kanabidiola) hidrirani na prstenu A, bez obzira na to jesu li ili nisu dodatno supstituirani na prstenu B«. Cannabidiol is not named in the Popis as a substance of its own. It is named once, inside the dibenzopirani entry, as an express carve out: the entry reaches compounds structurally derived from cannabinol hydrogenated at ring A and puts cannabidiol outside that reach in brackets. Separately, the konoplja entry in the narcotic list catches any cannabis plant together with cannabis resin and the extracts and tinctures of cannabis, except varieties on the European Union common catalogue whose total content does not exceed 0,2 per cent. So the express exclusion and the plant entry point in opposite directions and both have to be read. The molecule is out of the dibenzopyran class by name, and a cannabis extract is in the narcotic list whatever its cannabinoid profile, unless the source material is an industrial hemp variety within the 0,2 per cent limit that Article 2(1)(5) of the control Act defines. That is an express exclusion for the molecule and a source based control for the product, and it is not silence. This placement is read in the Popis as published at NN 19/2023 of 17 February 2023, in force 18 February 2023, together with its only amendment, NN 154/2024 of 30 December 2024, read at https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2023_02_19_331.html on 21 September 2026. It does not rule out a later amendment.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 21 of the Ustav Republike Hrvatske reads »U Republici Hrvatskoj nema smrtne kazne«, there is no death penalty in the Republic of Croatia, and Article 41 of the Kazneni zakon lists the only punishments as a fine, imprisonment and long term imprisonment. A charge on this row is built from the entry »dibenzopirani« at the psychotropic list, Odjeljak 1. which is a bounded definition rather than a name, so what connects a seized sample to it is an opinion on the molecule's structure. Which limb applies is a question about the material rather than the molecule, so a charge on this row would be built from the konoplja entry and an analysis of the source, not from any cannabidiol entry. Article 190 of the Kazneni zakon supplies the criminal bands, and its subject is »tvari koje su propisom proglašene drogom«, substances declared a drug by regulation, so a Popis entry is what brings a row within it. Article 190(1) sets six months to five years for unauthorised production or processing. Article 190(2) sets three to twelve years for producing, processing, transporting, exporting, importing, acquiring or possessing such substances intended for unauthorised sale, and for offering, selling or brokering them. Article 190(3) sets three to fifteen years where the sale is to a person with severe mental disturbance or to a child, or takes place at or near a school or another place serving the education, upbringing, sport or social activity of children, or in a penal institution, or where an official commits it in the course of duty. Article 190(4) sets not less than three years for organising a network of resellers or intermediaries, and Article 190(5) not less than five years where the act causes considerable damage to the health of a larger number of people or the death of the person sold to. Article 190(8) requires confiscation of the substances, the plants and fungi they come from, and the means of production, transport and consumption. Article 190(2) read one to twelve years until Article 10 of the Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Kaznenog zakona, NN 136/2025, replaced the word »jedne« with »tri«, and it has read three to twelve years since that Act came into force on the eighth day after its publication on 5 November 2025. Article 44(1) of the Kazneni zakon caps a term of imprisonment at twenty years, which is what bounds the open ended minima in Article 190(4) and Article 190(5), and Article 46 puts long term imprisonment of twenty one to forty years outside the reach of Article 190. The molecule is named only in order to be excluded, and the product is caught or not caught according to what it was extracted from. The live cell recorded that since 1 January 2013 personal use possession of any drug has been reclassified from a kazneno djelo, a criminal offence, to a prekršaj, a misdemeanour, and that is carried forward here. It recorded the misdemeanour fine as roughly 660 to 2,650 euro. It recorded possible short misdemeanour detention of up to 90 days, confiscation, and no arrest for possession alone. On quantity it recorded that there is no statutory personal use quantity and that courts decide case by case, and that hedge is carried forward as it stood. It recorded cultivation or production without intent to sell as six months to five years. It recorded sale, import, export or possession for sale as three to twelve years. It recorded aggravated cases, near schools, to children or organised, as up to fifteen to twenty years. It recorded that medical cannabis has been legal since October 2015 on prescription, capped at 0,75 g of THC per month and limited to residents. It recorded that claims of a 2026 reform introducing a five gram cannabis threshold are not supported by any primary source and should be disregarded. Read against the control Act, the misdemeanour the live fine belongs to is Article 54(1) point 1 of the Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga read with Article 54(3), which makes possession contrary to Article 3(1) a misdemeanour for a natural person. The fine that provision prints is 5.000,00 to 20.000,00 kuna or imprisonment of up to 90 days, because the Act's consolidation still carries the pre euro figures, and at the fixed conversion rate that range is about 663 to 2,654 euro, which reconciles with the live figure rather than replacing it. Article 190 as read carries no possession for own use offence at all, which is consistent with the live cell's 2013 reclassification but is not proof of it. The words without intent to sell are the live cell's gloss and not the statute's: Article 190(1) is unauthorised production or processing, and Article 190(7) deems unauthorised growing of a plant or fungus from which a drug can be obtained to be production. The 0,75 g monthly cap appears in nothing read for this cell; Article 13(6) to (9) of the control Act permits cannabis cultivation and production for medical purposes on an approval from the health ministry, and the monthly figure is carried forward from the live cell and was not re-derived. Those bands, that fine and those quantity words are set out here because the live cell carried them, and they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
Hungary
Legal status
Not listed. CBD is not a named entry of the K1 or K2 jegyzék in the 1. melléklet, of the P1, P2, P3 or P4 jegyzék in the 2. melléklet, or of the új pszichoaktív anyagok jegyzéke in the 3. melléklet to 78/2022. (XII. 28.) BM rendelet az ellenőrzött anyagokról, and it is not named in any of the five structural descriptions at points 1 to 5 of that 3. melléklet either. Those five points and the numbered table at point 6 are the whole of the listing content of that melléklet: point 7 is a reading rule and not a further group, «A jegyzékbe sorolás szempontjából a 6.1. pontban foglalt táblázat A és B oszlopában található adatok irányadóak, a C és D oszlop adatai a vegyületek számítógépes kereshetőségét biztosítják.». The forms searched were kannabidiol, cannabidiol, CBD, in Hungarian orthography, with the accents stripped, and again over the text with every whitespace character removed so that a name broken across a line or a table cell could not read as an absence. The Hungarian form kannabidiol returns nothing. The Latin string cannabidiol returns one row of the 3. melléklet, «tetrahydrocannabidiol (H4-CBD)» at row 336, whose column B reads «2-(2-isopropyl-5-methylcyclohexyl)- 5-pentylbenzene-1,3-diol». That is the tetrahydrogenated compound and a different molecule. Cannabis, its resin and its extracts and tinctures are a named K1 entry at row 30, so the plant material a preparation is made from can be reached where this molecule is not. This is silence and not an express exclusion: the decree says nothing about the substance at all. Hungary carries the list outside the Act: the Criminal Code names no substance and the delegated rendelet carries the jegyzékek, which is the outward reference model and the second of the three. Section 459(1a) of the Criminal Code, 2012. évi C. törvény, inserted by section 26 of 2025. évi XIX. törvény, reads «E törvény alkalmazásában kábítószer a 78/2022. (XII. 28.) BM rendelet 1. mellékletében a kábítószerek 1. vagy 2. jegyzékén szereplő anyag, 2. mellékletében a pszichotróp anyagok 1. vagy 2. jegyzékén szereplő anyag, valamint 3. mellékletében meghatározott anyag.», so the K1 and K2 jegyzékek of the 1. melléklet, the P1 and P2 jegyzékek of the 2. melléklet and the whole of the 3. melléklet are inside the Criminal Code definition and the P3 and P4 jegyzékek are not. The P3 and P4 jegyzékek remain controlled schedules of the rendelet, and an entry there alone does not place a substance in the ordinary section 176 trafficking lane. An absence is a statement about a list at a moment. This one is stated as those lists stand after the amendment made by 1/2026. (VI. 19.) EÜM rendelet, in the consolidated text as in force on 29 June 2026, which is the last amendment reflected in the text that was read, and no later.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Hungary has no death penalty. It does have life imprisonment for a drug offence, and that is the ceiling here. None of the drug penalties below reaches CBD through the jegyzékek, because they attach to the substances those jegyzékek name and this substance is not among them. Criminal Code section 176(1) makes offering, handing over, putting into circulation or trading in a drug a bűntett punishable by two to eight years, «Aki kábítószert kínál, átad, forgalomba hoz, vagy azzal kereskedik, bűntett miatt két évtől nyolc évig terjedő szabadságvesztéssel büntetendő.». Section 176(3) raises that to five years to twenty years or life imprisonment where the offence is committed in respect of a significant quantity, «A büntetés öt évtől húsz évig terjedő vagy életfogytig tartó szabadságvesztés, ha a bűncselekményt jelentős mennyiségű kábítószerre követik el.». The live Hungary cell recorded the life ceiling under section 176(3) and this pass re-derived the same provision from the Act and adds the five to twenty year band printed beside it. Section 178(6) makes consuming a drug, and acquiring, holding or ordering for import a small quantity for consumption, a vétség punishable by up to two years, «Aki kábítószert fogyaszt, illetve csekély mennyiségű kábítószert fogyasztás céljából megszerez, tart vagy az ország területére történő behozatal céljából megrendel, ha súlyosabb bűncselekmény nem valósul meg, vétség miatt két évig terjedő szabadságvesztéssel büntetendő.». Section 180(1) is a conditional non punishment route and not a numerical decriminalisation rule: it requires the offender to admit the offence, «a bűncselekmény elkövetését beismeri,», to prove by document before the first instance decision at least six months of continuous treatment for dependence, other care for drug use or a preventive and informative service, «az elsőfokú ügydöntő határozat meghozataláig okirattal igazolja, hogy legalább hat hónapig folyamatos, kábítószer-függőséget gyógyító kezelésben, kábítószer-használatot kezelő más ellátásban részesült, vagy megelőző-felvilágosító szolgáltatáson vett részt, és», and to disclose the circumstances and enable the seller to be identified before the indictment, «a vádemelésig az elkövetés körülményeit feltárja, illetve lehetővé teszi a kábítószert értékesítő személy kilétének a megállapítását.». The live Hungary cell recorded those three conditions and this pass re-derived them from the Act. Section 180(2) closes that route where within the preceding two years the proceedings were suspended on that ground or the offender was held liable for drug trafficking or drug possession, and section 180(2a) closes it where the offender has already taken it twice, «Az (1) bekezdés nem alkalmazható akkor sem, ha az elkövető az (1) bekezdés b) pontja szerinti lehetőséget már két alkalommal igénybe vette.». Section 461 supplies the quantity definitions that grade the offence, so a quantity figure in Hungary selects the band rather than creating a lawful allowance. No section 461 quantity value is stated for this row, because section 461 grades a quantity of kábítószer as section 459(1a) defines it, and this substance is not one of the entries that definition reaches. No fine figure attaches to any of those provisions in the text read: the Criminal Code states them as custodial bands and the rendelet states no penalty of its own. Those are Criminal Code provisions rather than rendelet provisions, and this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Hungary's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
Cambodia
Legal status
CBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as cannabis, cannabis and its derivatives are listed narcotic substances in the tables of the Law on the Control of Drugs (2012), with no CBD exemption or THC threshold; there is no consumer or supplement category.
Consequences if caught
Possession is a drug offence under the 2012 Law, arrest, prosecution, imprisonment and fines, with severe enforcement.
If prescribed / medical
There is no established CBD/Epidiolex scheme; medical exceptions are narrow and case-by-case.
Documentation
No documentation legalises CBD, controlled as cannabis; medical exceptions are narrow and case-by-case.
Dangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): Third Schedule, Part I, Group B, Section 1 item 27, 「Cannabis Resin, Extracts and Tinctures the separated resin, crude or purified, obtained from the cannabis plant」. Cannabidiol is not named anywhere in the Third Schedule. It is reached because a cannabidiol preparation made from cannabis is an extract obtained from the cannabis plant, and item 27 reaches extracts whether crude or purified. The model: the list is inside the Ordinance and the power to change it is delegated, with a parliamentary lock on the delegation. Section 48 provides that 「the drugs, substances, articles or preparations, specified for the time being in Groups A, B, C, D and E in Part I of the Third Schedule, shall be deemed to be dangerous drugs」. Section 2(1) then provides that 「regulation」 means a regulation made under this Ordinance and published in the Gazette, 「and includes the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Schedules」, so the Third Schedule is itself a regulation. The empowering section is section 80. Section 80(2)(b) lets the Minister make regulations 「for adding any item to or deleting any item from, or altering, varying or amending in any other way, any of the lists or Groups of poisons and dangerous drugs set out in the First and Third Schedules」, and section 80(3) then provides that 「No regulation so made shall have effect unless it has been approved by Parliament and notification of such approval has been published in the Gazette」. So the delegation is real but it is locked to an affirmative vote, and in practice the 2022 changes were made by primary legislation rather than by regulation. The Act was last amended by the Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, No. 7 of 2026, certified 6 March 2026. The Third Schedule was last amended by section 6 of the Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, No. 41 of 2022, certified 23 November 2022 and published as a supplement to Part II of the Gazette of 25 November 2022, which substituted Group B of Part I and the whole of Part III. Act No. 7 of 2026 does not touch the Third Schedule.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Section 54A(1) has four limbs and they do not carry the same exposure. Limb (a) punishes any person who 「manufactures any of the following dangerous drugs, namely heroin or cocaine or morphine or opium」 with 「a sentence of death or life imprisonment」, with no quantity stated. Limbs (b), (c) and (d) punish trafficking, importing or exporting, and possession, of 「any dangerous drug set out in Column II of Part III of the Third Schedule in excess of the amount set out in the said Column II」, with the penalty in Column III. Part III Column II is headed 「Pure Quantities」, and Column I is headed 「Traffics, possess, imports or exports」, so possession is inside the same ladder as trafficking. Section 54B extends the same punishment to abetting, attempting and acts preparatory to or in furtherance of a section 54A offence. Since Act No. 7 of 2026 a parallel section 54AA applies the same two structures on the high seas, aboard a ship registered in Sri Lanka or a stateless ship. For a dangerous drug that is not in Part III, section 54A never engages, because limbs (b), (c) and (d) operate only on a drug 「set out in Column II of Part III」. The charge is the general penalty in section 78(5): on summary conviction by a Magistrate a fine of one thousand to ten thousand rupees or up to five years or both, and on conviction before the High Court a fine of ten thousand to twenty five thousand rupees or six months to seven years or both. Section 78(6) requires the written consent of the Attorney-General before non-summary proceedings. The route matters for what falls outside it. Item 26 covers only the flowering or fruiting tops with the resin not extracted, so stalk and seed are outside the plant entry, and an extract is caught by item 27 instead. Sri Lanka sets no percentage threshold for cannabidiol anywhere. Neither reaches this substance, at any quantity, and the reason is structural rather than a matter of degree. The death and life penalties in this Ordinance live in exactly two places. Section 54A(1)(a) attaches them to the manufacture of 「heroin or cocaine or morphine or opium」 and names no other drug. Limbs (b), (c) and (d) attach the Column III penalties to 「any dangerous drug set out in Column II of Part III of the Third Schedule」, and Column II names only opium, 「Morphine, Cocaine, Heroin and Methamphetamine」, and cannabis. This substance is in none of those, so section 54A cannot engage however much of it is involved, and section 54AA cannot either, because it is built on the same two structures. Being a dangerous drug under section 48 is not the same thing as being in Part III, and the corpus this cell replaces repeatedly ran the two together.
Morocco
Legal status
Not confirmed. This substance is in no entry of tableaux A, B or C annexed to the dahir of 2 December 1922 as annexed in 1922, read complete in the ONSSA consolidated text on 22 September 2026, and in no entry of tableaux I to IV of the 1971 Convention as printed at Bulletin officiel 3590 on 19 August 1981, thirty two entries read complete from the page image. That pair of absences does not make it lawful. Article 1 of the 1922 dahir provides that substances are inscribed in tableaux A, B and C by arrêté. Those arrêtés were read on 3 October 2026: tableau B, « Produits stupéfiants », as abrogated and replaced by arrêté n° 1850-96 of 3 September 1996, Bulletin officiel 4422, pages 713 to 716, read in full from the page image, and tableaux A and C as published by arrêté n° 171-66 of 11 March 1966, Bulletin officiel 2817 of 26 October 1966. Cannabidiol is in no entry of that tableau B, whose only cannabis entry is « Cannabis (chanvre indien) et résine de cannabis » in Annexe I, Groupe I, and an OCR text of tableaux A and C of 1966 returns no cannabidiol entry. Arrêtés amending tableau B after 1996, or tableaux A and C after 1966, were searched for and not found, but the gazette was not swept issue by issue, so the list in force today was not established. Cannabidiol has no entry in any instrument read, and entry 10 of the 1971 Convention tableau I is not read as reaching it: on formula alone cannabidiol is a constitutional isomer of the tetrahydrocannabinols, but the entry's chemical designation describes the closed dibenzopyran ring and cannabidiol has that ring open, so this is a reading of the designation and not of the word isomer. Law 13-21 is the instrument that actually bears on this row. It licenses cannabis products for industrial, medical and pharmaceutical ends and caps tetrahydrocannabinol content at a rate « fixé par voie réglementaire ». Arrêté conjoint n° 1297-22 of 12 May 2022, Bulletin officiel 7122 of 1 September 2022, page 1443, fixes that rate for articles 6 and 17 at « un pour cent (1%) », and article 17 provides « A l'exception des produits médicamenteux et pharmaceutiques, est interdite la fabrication de produits dont la teneur en tétrahydrocannabinol (THC) dépasse le taux fixé par voie réglementaire ». That caps what a licensed maker may produce; it does not say that a consumer may buy or hold a CBD product outside the licensed chain, and no provision that does was read.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No article of dahir portant loi 1-73-282 of 21 May 1974 provides death or life imprisonment. The dahir was read from the page image of Bulletin officiel 3214, pages 928 and 929, on 3 October 2026, and the longest term it sets is ten years, the ceiling of article 2 and of article 3. Article 12 applies the penal code's rules on recidivism, which were not read for this cell. Conduct distinction. Article 2 of dahir portant loi 1-73-282 of 21 May 1974 punishes whoever imports, produces, manufactures, transports, exports or unlawfully holds « les substances ou plantes classées comme stupéfiants » with five to ten years and a fine of 5.000 to 500.000 dirhams. Article 8 punishes unlawful use of one of those substances or plants with two months to one year and a fine of 500 to 5.000 dirhams, or one of those two penalties only, and suspends prosecution where the person consents to a cure de désintoxication after medical examination on the requisition of the procureur du Roi. Both articles operate only once classification as a narcotic is established, and for this row it is not: the substance has no entry of its own in tableau B as replaced by arrêté 1850-96 in 1996, whether the entry « Cannabis (chanvre indien) et résine de cannabis » reaches a CBD product was not established, and no later amendment was found, although none can be ruled out. Separately, article 50 of Law 13-21, read from Bulletin officiel 7010, page 1180, on 3 October 2026, applies « les sanctions et les mesures de sûreté prévues au dahir portant loi n° 1-73-282 » to cultivation, production, transformation, manufacture, transport, marketing and export of cannabis or its products, seeds or plants, « ou leur importation », without an authorisation from the Agence; importation without authorisation is the limb most likely to reach a traveller carrying a product into Morocco, but whether it does was not established; it does not name holding for personal use, and whether it reaches a buyer of a CBD product was not established. So no penalty range can be attached to this substance with confidence, and the ranges above are stated to show the ceiling that would apply if it were classified, not to assert that it is. Article 13 lets the sentencing court ban a foreign national from the territory for five to ten years, without prejudice to administrative expulsion. Article 11 requires confiscation of substances seized in the cases the dahir covers.
Qatar
Legal status
Controlled in Qatar where the material answers a limb that names it by description rather than by name, and it is not named in Table 1, Table 2 or Table 4 under its own name. CBD is cannabidiol. It is not named in Table 1, Table 2 or Table 4 and it is on none of the three Ministry lists, and Table 1-B item 13 covers tetrahydrocannabinol isomers, which it is not. Two limbs can still reach a particular product. If the material is a preparation of chemically synthesised cannabinoids it falls in the item added to section a of Table 1 by article 2 of Ministerial Decision 6 of 2024, «8 - مستحضرات القُنيبات المخلقة كيميائياً بجميع أسمائها وأشكالها وتركيباتها الصناعية.». If it is plant material or resin it meets Table 1-A item 2, cannabis and cannabis resin, and Table 4 item 1, and Table 5 excludes only hemp stalk fibre and roasted non-germinable hemp seed, not an extract. Article 1 of Law No. 9 of 1987 provides «تعتبر مواد مخدرة أو مؤثرات عقلية خطرة في تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد والمؤثرات العقلية المبينة في الجدولين رقمي (1) و(2) الملحقين به. ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (3).», making the narcotic drugs and dangerous psychotropic substances for this Law those set out in attached Tables 1 and 2, and excepting from them the preparations set out in Table 3. The power to move a substance in or out is article 33, «يجوز بقرار من وزير الصحة العامة تعديل الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بالحذف أو الإضافة أو تغيير النسب الواردة فيها.», which lets the Minister of Public Health amend the attached tables by deletion, addition or change of the stated percentages. This reading is stated as at the annex as published in the Official Gazette and as it stands after Ministerial Decisions 22 of 2015, 6 of 2024, 2 of 2025 and 8 of 2026, the last of which took effect on 2 February 2026, read at the publisher on 22 September 2026. Those five documents are not a complete statement of the tables, and this cell says so rather than implying otherwise: the Ministry of Public Health prints on its own list of controlled narcotic and dangerous psychoactive substances a further block of entries, among them carfentanil, hydromorphone, oripavine and a long run of designer cathinones and synthetic cannabinoids, that appears in neither the Gazette annex nor any of the four located decisions, and the instruments that placed them were not found. So this reading is measured against those five documents and the three Ministry lists together, and not against a certified consolidation, because the portals publish none.
Consequences if caught
The figures below are Qatar's published drug penalties and they attach to this row only if the material answers the described limb. Article 34 opens «يعاقب بالإعدام أو الحبس المؤبد وبغرامة لا تزيد على خمسمائة ألف ريال ولا تقل عن ثلاثمائة ألف ريال», punishment by death or life imprisonment, and the word or is what leaves death discretionary at the base tier. The same article then provides «وتكون العقوبة الإعدام وبغرامة لا تزيد على خمسمائة ألف ريال ولا تقل عن ثلاثمائة ألف ريال في حالة العود.», making death the punishment on recidivism, and extends that same result to an offender who is a public official charged with drug control and to one who involves a person under eighteen, an ascendant, a descendant, a spouse or a person in his charge. Article 35 opens «يُعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تزيد على عشرين سنة ولا تقل عن عشر سنوات وبغرامة لا تزيد على أربعمائة ألف ريال ولا تقل عن مائتي ألف ريال», ten to twenty years for possession, acquisition, purchase, sale, delivery, receipt, transport, cession, exchange, dispensing or brokering with intent to traffic, for supplying for consumption for consideration and for keeping a place for consumption for consideration. Article 35 then provides «وتكون العقوبة الحبس المؤبد وبغرامة لا تزيد على أربعمائة ألف ريال ولا تقل عن مائتي ألف ريال في حالة العود.», life imprisonment on recidivism, and attaches life to its stated aggravations as well. Article 41 sets three to seven years for possession, acquisition, purchase, delivery, transport, production, extraction, separation or manufacture proved to be for neither trafficking nor consumption nor personal use. Article 37 sets six months to three years for personal use, possession for use or consumption, lets the court order treatment instead for a proved addict for not less than three months and not more than a year, and article 38 bars prosecution altogether for a user who presents for treatment of his own accord. No quantity threshold appears anywhere in articles 34, 35, 37 or 41. Weight does not select the tier and a foreign threshold table has no work to do here. The fines are stated in the same articles and are separate from the custodial terms: article 34 adds a fine of not more than five hundred thousand riyals and not less than three hundred thousand, article 35 not more than four hundred thousand and not less than two hundred thousand, its no-consideration limb and article 41 not more than two hundred thousand and not less than one hundred thousand, and article 37 not more than twenty thousand and not less than ten thousand. Whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
Kuwait
Legal status
Not a controlled narcotic or psychotropic substance in Kuwait. CBD is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2 of Decree Law 159 of 2025, as those schedules stand after Ministry of Health Decision 165 of 2026. Cannabidiol is named nowhere in the schedules.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Conduct distinction. Articles 48 and 49 of Decree Law 159 of 2025 punish possession and personal use of a scheduled substance, up to ten years and up to five years respectively. CBD is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2, so neither article reaches it as a scheduled substance. Cannabidiol is named nowhere in the schedules. None. Articles 42 and 43 of Decree Law 159 of 2025, which carry death or life imprisonment, bite only on المواد أو المستحضرات المخدرة أو المؤثرة عقلياً, narcotic or psychotropic substances and preparations, which article 1 defines by reference to the annexed schedules. CBD is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2, so there is no scheduled substance for those articles to attach to. Articles 44 and 45, which make death mandatory, operate only on article 42 and 43 offences and so cannot attach either. That is the reason exposure is absent, not merely the fact of it. No quantity threshold arises, because no capital article is engaged.
If prescribed / medical
CBD is not on a criminal schedule of this decree law, so the prescribing chapter of Decree Law 159 of 2025 does not govern it. A separate Ministry of Health prescribing or registration rule may still apply, and a prescribing rule is not a criminal schedule. Carry a certified prescription and a medical report for any medicine you bring in.
Documentation
The governing instrument is Decree Law 159 of 2025 on combating narcotics and psychotropic substances and regulating their use and trade, eighty four articles in thirteen chapters, gazetted in Kuwait Al-Youm on 1 December 2025 and in force from 15 December 2025. Article 83 repealed Law 74 of 1983 and Decree Law 48 of 1987 and merged them. The schedules do not sit in the law. Article 40 reads يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل الجداول أو المجموعات المرفقة بهذا المرسوم بقانون، بالحذف، أو بالإضافة, so the Minister of Health amends them by decision. The last such amendment read for this cell is Decision 165 of 2026, made on 24 May 2026 and gazetted in Kuwait Al-Youm issue 1793 on 31 May 2026, whose article five annexes the complete updated schedules. The schedules are arranged as Group 1, narcotic substances, tables 1 to 6, Group 2, psychotropic substances, tables 1 to 4, Group 3, chemical precursors, and a Group 4 list of the substances article 52 names. Group 3 was not reprinted in the annex and was not read for this cell. Foreign nationals are liable to deportation after sentence. Kuwait retains and imposes the death penalty for drug trafficking. Placement for CBD: in no table of Group 1 or Group 2. Cannabidiol is named nowhere in the schedules. The absence was tested five ways before it was accepted: the international name, optical character recognition variants of it, the Arabic form, the chemical name, and independently by enumerating every Latin word in the schedules that begins with the same letter and reading that list. A measured zero from a scanned table is not a finding until it has been interrogated.
Peru
Legal status
Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI, and none of them is this substance. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under cannabidiol, canabidiol and CBD. The cannabis entries at Lista II A item 12 and Lista IV A item 17 read Cannabis, resinas y aceites esenciales, and the catalogue footnotes the Lista II A entry, though not the Lista IV A entry, to Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA, the Reglamento of Ley 30681 on medicinal and therapeutic cannabis. Cannabidiol is not separately named in any of the 244 entries. The reading was taken from the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which is a text only file carrying no images at all. The two publications agree on every list, on the entry at every item number and on the count, and the numbering runs continuously from 1 with no gap in any of the eleven lists, so the absence is taken from a listing read to its end rather than from a truncated one. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name and every anchored hit was read in full before it was allowed to become a placement. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Article 2 of the Reglamento states three limbs: it comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the connected lists of the international conventions incorporated into domestic law, and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and it then says that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. The rule applied across this country set follows those words: where Anexo N. 2 carries an entry its band governs and supersedes the older one, and where Anexo N. 2 is silent the Decreto Ley 22095 annex and the incorporated convention lists can still bring a substance within article 2, so silence in the published catalogue is a gap in it rather than a de-control. Because Anexo N. 2 does not reach this substance and no other Peruvian instrument read in the 21 September 2026 pass places it, the row is unresolved rather than permitted. Absence from the sanitary schedule is not a statement that the substance may be carried or used, and the position under customs, medicines registration and consumer law was not examined here. This run, on 3 October 2026, searched an instrument the previous pass did not reach. Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. Its 736 numbered items and its closing groups were searched in Spanish, against the page images where the extracted text was doubtful, under cannabidiol, canabidiol and CBD, and none of them is this substance. The annex also defines a nueva sustancia psicoactiva as any substance that produces a psychoactive effect by stimulating or depressing the central nervous system; that definition names no substance, and applying it to place this row would be an inference rather than a placement, so it is not applied. Both the Anexo N. 2 catalogue and the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas are read as at 3 October 2026, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 lets the latter be updated by the same procedure that approved it, so this reading does not rule out a later list.
Chile
Legal status
Not confirmed. Not named in the listas read. Read the street block before treating that as permission.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Chile abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes by Ley 19.734 of 2001 [Likely, carried from a secondary source], and the escala general de penas in artículo 21 of the Código Penal, re-derived in this pass from the consolidated text of 20 November 2018, opens at presidio perpetuo calificado and names no death penalty [Certain]. No provision of Ley 20.000 carries a death penalty [Certain]. Ley 20.000 splits substances in two. Artículo 1 inciso primero reaches those capable of grave toxic effects or considerable harm to health, and inciso segundo reaches other drugs of the same kind that do not produce those effects. Decreto 867 puts the first group in its artículo 1 and the second in its artículo 2, so which artículo an entry sits in is what fixes the penalty range [Certain]. Placement: unresolved. Cannabidiol is named in neither lista and the string returned no match anywhere in Decreto 867 [Certain]. The cannabis entries in both listas are drawn by plant part, resin, extract, pharmaceutical preparation and tetrahydrocannabinol, none of which names cannabidiol. A cannabidiol product derived from the plant may still engage the cannabis entries through its source material, which is a question of the product and not of the schedule [Likely]. This reads Decreto 867 as at 21 September 2026, its listas last amended by Decreto 220 de 2022 published on 13 September 2022, and that does not rule out a later decreto; one is in fact mandated by the artículo transitorio of Ley 21.817 and due by 23 November 2026. Read the penalties that follow as Chile's published penalties for drug offences. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because whether any offence provision reaches this substance is exactly what was not established. Artículo 1 inciso primero of Ley 20.000 sets presidio mayor en sus grados mínimo a medio, five years and one day to fifteen years, with a fine of forty to four hundred unidades tributarias mensuales, for unauthorised elaboration, manufacture, transformation, preparation or extraction. Artículo 3 applies the same penalties to trafficking, and its second inciso treats importing, exporting, transporting, acquiring, transferring, abstracting, possessing, supplying, keeping or carrying as trafficking [Certain]. Artículo 1 inciso segundo allows the penalty to be reduced by up to one degree for substances in this group, which takes the floor to presidio menor en su grado máximo, three years and one day to five years. The reduction is discretionary on the wording podrá rebajarse, so the inciso primero band stays available to the court [Certain]. Artículo 4 punishes possessing, transporting, keeping or carrying small quantities with presidio menor en sus grados medio a máximo, five hundred and forty one days to five years, and a fine of ten to forty unidades tributarias mensuales, unless the holder justifies a medical treatment or exclusive personal use proximate in time [Certain]. Artículo 19 raises the penalty by one degree where any of its twelve listed aggravations applies, and permits two degrees where two or more concur. One degree above the artículo 1 band is presidio mayor en sus grados medio a máximo, ten years and one day to twenty years [Certain]. The two degree ceiling turns on Código Penal degree arithmetic that I did not settle in this pass, so it is not established here. Artículo 50 makes consuming in a public place, and holding or carrying in such a place for exclusive personal use proximate in time, a falta punished by a fine of one to ten unidades tributarias mensuales, attendance at a prevention programme for up to sixty days or treatment for up to one hundred and eighty days, or community work of up to thirty hours, with an accessory driving licence suspension of up to six months. The same penalties reach consumption in a private place where those present agreed beforehand to consume [Certain]. Artículo 50 refers to the drugs mentioned in artículo 1 of the law, which covers both incisos and so both listas [Certain]. A falta is not a prison sentence, but it can become one and this cell previously said it could not. Artículo 52 provides that where the fine under artículo 50 letter a) is not paid, the court may substitute the prevention, treatment or community service penalty, that any such substitution requires the agreement of the convicted person, and that in the absence of that agreement the court shall impose reclusion by way of substitution and enforcement of the fine, at one day for each third of a unidad tributaria mensual, never exceeding six months [Certain]. The same reclusion follows revocation where an imposed treatment or prevention penalty is not complied with [Certain]. Because the artículo 50 fine runs from one to ten unidades tributarias mensuales, one day per third of a unidad puts the ceiling reachable from that fine at thirty days, and the six month figure is the statutory cap rather than an outcome this route can reach [Certain]. Artículo 52 also lets the court waive the fine or set it below the legal minimum in duly qualified cases [Certain]. Artículo 51 requires the pecuniary sanction to be applied at its maximum where the falta is committed in a place of detention, a military or police precinct by an outsider, or in an educational or health establishment by someone who works there [Certain]. Decreto 867 states no numerical quantity for any substance and artículo 4 works from the open phrase pequeñas cantidades, so the line between artículo 4 and artículo 3 is judicial and not arithmetic [Certain]. The artículo transitorio of Ley 21.817 orders the Ministerio de Seguridad Pública to amend Decreto 867 within six months of publication, so by 23 November 2026, to add a new classification for substances harmful even in low quantities. The consolidated Decreto 867 read in this pass carries no list framed on quantity, so that classification is still pending [Certain].
New Zealand
Legal status
Not a controlled drug on the text cited, and the absence was tested rather than assumed. CBD, the non-intoxicating cannabinoid cannabidiol, has no exact entry in Schedules 1 to 3 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, and the closed schedules were read together with the open section 2 analogue limb, whose definition excludes substances that are approved medicines or that lack substantial structural similarity to a controlled drug. That is why this is recorded as a positive closed-list absence and not as an unresolved question. Cannabis and its preparations have their own row in this table, carrying their own class and their own section 6 and section 7 figures, so a product made from cannabis material engages that row as well as this one. One route stays open: sale of an unapproved psychoactive product can engage the Psychoactive Substances Act 2013 even where no controlled drug classification attaches. The reading is against the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 consolidation current at 20 September 2026, whose latest commenced classification instrument is the Misuse of Drugs (Classification and Presumption of Supply) Order 2025, in force from 27 November 2025.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. New Zealand has no death penalty. No Misuse of Drugs Act ceiling attaches to CBD either, because it is not established as a controlled drug on the cited text, so neither the section 6 dealing maximum nor the section 7 possession maximum has anything to fasten on. The exposure that does exist sits in the Psychoactive Substances Act 2013, on the route for unlawful sale of an unapproved psychoactive product, whose penalties are statutory and non-capital. That route reaches supply rather than a person carrying the substance. Cannabidiol products are commonly made by extraction from cannabis material, and the cannabis row of this table carries its own class and its own section 6 and section 7 figures for that material and for preparations of it, so such a product engages that row as well as this one. Which of the two rows answers a given extract is not settled by either of them, nor by the source read here.
If prescribed / medical
Not established for a traveller. This dossier carries no country-level rule for entering New Zealand with a prescribed medicine: it records that medicines status has to be checked alongside the analogue exclusions and the Psychoactive Substances Act 2013 route, and that a court-grade conclusion can turn on the medicine exclusions, but it states no declaration requirement, no permit, no quantity allowance and no carry limit at the border, and none was researched for this cell. What is established is the placement a traveller would be read against: CBD is not established as a controlled drug on the text cited, so the Misuse of Drugs Act placement is a negative one and neither section 6 nor section 7 attaches to it. Prescribed cannabidiol products exist in several countries, and the cited text establishes no rule at all for bringing one into New Zealand. Do not read that placement as a ruling on a lawfully prescribed and lawfully carried supply, which is a different question this cell does not answer. Settle the border question with the Ministry of Health, whose classification order implementation page this dossier cites, and with the New Zealand border authority, before travelling.
South Africa
Legal status
Not confirmed. This substance is not printed in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 of the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992, and two available readings of the isomer limb point in opposite directions.
Consequences if caught
Part III prints "Tetrahydrocannabinol." and paragraph 2 (a) extends every entry to "(a) The isomers of the specified substances or plants, where the existence of such isomers is possible;" This substance has the same molecular formula as the printed compound, which makes an argument under that paragraph genuinely available. Against it, this is a different ring arrangement rather than a positional variant of the same skeleton, and reading isomer that widely would pull in compounds the schedule plainly treats as distinct. The Act supplies no definition of isomer and does not choose between the two readings. Separately, cannabidiol exemptions have been made in South Africa under the Medicines Act, and that instrument is not held in this repository, so the exemption position cannot be stated here either. If the limb does reach this substance the consequences are the ordinary ones for the Part the listed relative sits in: section 4 (b) with section 17 (d) at up to 15 years for use or possession, and section 5 (b) with section 17 (e) at up to 25 years for dealing. If it does not, the Act does not reach the substance at all. This cell does not choose between those two outcomes. The two routes that could close this question are not available from what this cell holds. The Act supplies no test for deciding a homologue case, and the Medicines and Related Substances Control Act 101 of 1965 schedules, which are the other place a South African answer could come from, are not held in this repository and were not read for this cell. Capital exposure: none, and life exposure: none. Section 17 sets out the whole penalty scale of this Act and its highest figure is 25 years for dealing; no provision of the Act carries a death sentence or a sentence of life imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route can be stated for this substance, because the instrument that would answer that question is the Medicines and Related Substances Control Act 101 of 1965 and its consolidated schedules, which are not held in this repository. The Drugs Act's own exceptions in section 4, paragraphs (i) to (vi), run through a practitioner and through that Act, so they cannot be applied to this substance without it. This row is the one in this batch where a reader is most likely to encounter a product on an open shelf, and the honest answer is that the criminal schedule does not settle it and the medicine instrument that would was not read.
Documentation
Search record. The terms searched were cannabidiol, CBD, cannabinoid, hemp and tetrahydrocannabinol. The substance name returns zero occurrences. This row defers on the isomer limb rather than the homologue limb, which makes it different from every other deferral in this batch. The text read for this cell is the Juta consolidation of the Act downloaded on 29 May 2025, taken from the Department of Justice copy at justice.gov.za whose sha256 begins bc1216a3. It carries the substitution of Schedules 1 and 2 by section 2 of Act 14 of 2022 with effect from 14 December 2022, and it marks section 7 of the Cannabis for Private Purposes Act 7 of 2024, the provision that would amend Schedule 2 again, as not yet put into operation by proclamation. The schedules are stated as at that consolidation and this does not rule out a later amendment made or commenced since.
Kenya
Legal status
Not a controlled drug under Cap. 245 on the text read: it is not named in the First Schedule of narcotic drugs, the Second Schedule of psychotropic substances, the Third Schedule of prohibited plants or the Fourth Schedule of precursor chemicals, as at 31 December 2022. The nearest entry read and rejected is "tetrahydrocannabinol," in the Second Schedule, which names a different substance.
Consequences if caught
The nearest entry read and rejected is "tetrahydrocannabinol,", printed in the Second Schedule list of psychotropic substances. Cannabidiol is not printed in any of the four schedules and is not one of the seven tetrahydro designations listed under that headword. Section 2 separately defines cannabis oil as any liquid containing any quantity however small of tetrahydro-cannabinol, so a preparation that carries tetrahydrocannabinol raises a different question from the one this row asks. This is stated as at the Kenya Law revised edition of Cap. 245, being the text as at 31 December 2022 as revised by the 24th Annual Supplement (Legal Notice 221 of 2023), read on 22 September 2026, which the publisher marks as the latest version of the Act. Section 3(2)(b) sets imprisonment of not less than 5 years for possession of a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance other than cannabis, and section 4, which reaches trafficking and possession alike, sets a term of 30 years on its lower band and of 50 years on its upper one. The quantity bands are possession of less than 1 gram under section 3(2)(b), between 1 and 100 grams under section 4(a)(i), and more than 100 grams under section 4(a)(ii). The fines are not less than 5,000,000 shillings under section 3(2)(b), not less than 30,000,000 shillings under section 4(a)(i), and not less than 50,000,000 shillings or three times the market value, whichever is greater, under section 4(a)(ii), each expressed as an alternative to imprisonment or in addition to it. Cap. 245 carries no death penalty, and imprisonment for life appears only at section 4(b)(i), for precursor chemicals and for substances held out to be narcotic or psychotropic, and at section 4B(5), for conspiracy. Those figures are carried across every Kenyan row because Cap. 245 sets them country wide rather than substance by substance, and this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Kenya's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical
Cap. 245 does not reach this substance on the text read, so the section 3(3) exemption for a licence or a prescription is not the provision that governs it. Kenya's medicines, pharmacy and poisons legislation, its customs rules and any import permit requirement sit in other instruments, and none of them was read for this cell, so nothing here settles whether a traveller may bring this substance into Kenya. Carry any prescription you hold and put the question to a Kenyan mission before you travel.
Documentation
This row rests on an absence, so it carries the version of the list it was read against. Cap. 245 is the controlling instrument. It carries four schedules, the First for narcotic drugs, the Second for psychotropic substances, the Third for prohibited plants and the Fourth for precursor chemicals, and none of the four uses entry numbers, so no numbered placement is asserted anywhere in this batch. The text read incorporates the Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) (Amendment) Act, 2022 (No. 4 of 2022), assented on 24 February 2022 and commenced on 21 March 2022, which replaced the whole of section 3(2), replaced section 4 outright, inserted sections 4A and 4B, inserted the word tramadol in the First Schedule, inserted the word ketamine in the Second Schedule and added the Fourth Schedule, and which carries no transitional or savings provision. This is stated as at the Kenya Law revised edition of Cap. 245, being the text as at 31 December 2022 as revised by the 24th Annual Supplement (Legal Notice 221 of 2023), read on 22 September 2026, which the publisher marks as the latest version of the Act. Section 87 lets the Cabinet Secretary by order add a substance or plant to the First, Second or Third Schedule or delete one from it, and no order made after 31 December 2022 was found by the routes tried, which does not rule out a later one.
Belgium
Legal status
CBD (cannabidiol) is not a named controlled drug in Belgium, and the position that applies to it is a medicines or product one. The check found no controlled drug entry; the position recorded is a medicines and product one, with the AFMPS stating that a cannabidiol medicine received an authorisation in 2019 but is not currently marketed in Belgium, and that pharmacists may dispense magistral preparations made from pharmaceutical grade cannabidiol where the rules are met. This is a product and medicines position rather than a schedule placement, and the dossier records that other approved food, cosmetic and industrial hemp products may also be lawful. The controlled drug lists in the Royal Decree of 6 September 2017 do not reach it, and under the delegated model a substance outside the list the King has settled is not governed by article 2bis of the Law of 24 February 1921 at all. That is a statement about the drug decree only, and it does not make the substance unregulated.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Belgium's drug law carries no death penalty and no life sentence. On this row no controlled drug ladder attaches either. Article 2bis of the Law of 24 February 1921 reaches substances the King has listed, and CBD (cannabidiol) is not on that list, so it supplies no band, no aggravated ceiling and no fine on this row. Separate product, food, tobacco, alcohol, medicines or veterinary penalties sit outside this row unless it states one, and it states none. Here the drug decree does not supply the rule here; the medicines and product regimes do. Supplying a prescription only medicine outside the medicines rules remains an offence under those rules, which this row does not set out.
If prescribed / medical
The rule that applies to a traveller here is Belgium's own and it is one rule for the whole country: article 3(4)(4) of the Royal Decree of 6 September 2017. It is a document exception rather than a schedule, and it is not a prescribing right. It covers a medicine that was lawfully obtained, carried for the traveller's own personal use, and limited to no more than three months of treatment, and it expressly excludes the substances in Annex II limb A. CBD (cannabidiol) is not in Annexes I to IV at all on this row's finding, so there is nothing here for the exception to except, and a travel question about it is a medicines or product question rather than a controlled drug one. The magistral preparation route the AFMPS describes is a Belgian dispensing route inside Belgium, and it is not the traveller document exception. No route specific to CBD (cannabidiol) was found in this dossier and none has been invented for it.
Documentation
Carry the pharmacy documentation for a magistral preparation if one was dispensed to you, and do not treat a shop bought oil as the same thing. The authorised medicine is recorded as not currently marketed in Belgium. The medicines position was read on 18 September 2026. The annex text read is the non official consolidated version published by the AFMPS; it is informative and the Moniteur belge controls. The annex consolidation relied on here is valid from 29 March 2026, following the amending Royal Decree published on 19 March 2026, and carries a correction dated 16 July 2026.
Sweden
Legal status
Not named in the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om förteckningar över narkotika, made under 3 § förordningen (1992:1554) om kontroll av narkotika. The version read for this cell is the consolidated text, which states on its own first page that it contains amendments through HSLF-FS 2026:26. I searched that text for Cannabidiol and CBD. No entry for Cannabidiol was found. What the list does name is the tetrahydrocannabinols. The parent row reads «Tetrahydrocannabinoler Följande isomerer och dess stereoisomer», Förteckning I with international P I, and it is followed by an explicit list of six named isomers. A preparation is reached through whatever tetrahydrocannabinol it contains rather than through its cannabidiol content. The föreskrift says of itself that the names of substances, plant material and fungi are not exhaustively given and that other designations may occur, so this is an absence of the names searched for rather than a finding that nothing at all reaches the substance.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Sweden has no death penalty for any offence, so no drug offence here carries capital exposure. The live cell recorded that a CBD product with any detectable THC is a narcotic and that possession of it is a drug offence, while THC free CBD food is removed from sale as an unauthorised novel food.
If prescribed / medical
The live cell recorded that cannabidiol is available in two approved medicines, including Epidyolex, on prescription.
Documentation
A CBD product must be documented THC free. The live cell recorded that any detectable THC makes it a narcotic that paperwork cannot legalise, and that an approved CBD medicine needs a prescription.
Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om förteckningar över narkotika, konsoliderad version, as amended through HSLF-FS 2026:26, read on 21 September 2026 · 3 § förordningen (1992:1554) om kontroll av narkotika · Quotations in guillemets are the row's printed tokens in column order. Line wraps inside a name are rejoined, and a hyphen that exists only because of the wrap is dropped. Any further name printed in the row is reported in prose rather than inside the quotation, because the two column layout interleaves it into the middle of the chemical name · · Updated September 21, 2026
Norway
Legal status
Not controlled as narkotika in Norway in itself, and the qualification is the whole answer. Cannabidiol is not a row on the narkotikaliste: searched as cannabidiol across all 824 rows with no hit. What is listed is Cannabis, defined in its own row as the aerial parts of plants of the genus cannabis excluding the seeds where the resin has not been extracted, and separately Cannabisharpiks and Tetrahydrocannabinol, all three with a reference to section 5. So a CBD product containing any THC is a mixture containing a listed substance under section 3 letter c and is narkotika, while the isolated molecule is not.
Consequences if caught
Possession and use are forbidden by legemiddelloven section 24 first paragraph and punished under section 31 by a fine or imprisonment for up to six months, or both. Unlawful manufacture, import, export, acquisition, storage, sending or transfer is a narcotics offence under straffeloven section 231, punished by a fine or imprisonment for up to two years, and negligent commission by up to one year. An aggravated narcotics offence under section 232 carries up to ten years, a very substantial quantity carries from three to fifteen years, and under particularly aggravating circumstances up to twenty one years. Which of those two a given bottle is, is a question of analysis rather than labelling. The narkotikaliste read here is the Lovdata consolidation as at 16 September 2026. Its own amendment note ends with forskrift 26 August 2026 no. 1682, in force 1 September 2026, and no instrument after that was read, so this cell does not rule out a later change to the list.
If prescribed / medical
A cannabis based medicine is a narcotic medicine and section 19 applies to it. Isolated cannabidiol that contains no listed substance is not.
Documentation
A product sold as CBD is not safe to assume is outside the list. If it carries THC it is treated as the listed substance it contains.
Norway, forskrift 14. februar 2013 nr. 199 om narkotika (narkotikaforskriften), narkotikalisten and sections 3, 5 and 19 · legemiddelloven (LOV-1992-12-04-132) sections 22, 24 and 31 · straffeloven (LOV-2005-05-20-28) sections 231 and 232 · lovdata.no · Updated September 16, 2026
Denmark
Legal status
Not a placed substance under the Danish euphoriants legislation: it is not named in liste A, B, C, D or E of bekendtgoerelse nr. 405 af 26. marts 2026 om euforiserende stoffer as in force on 29 March 2026. What reaches a cannabidiol product is the plant entry and the 0,2 per cent carve out, not an entry for the compound.
Consequences if caught
The only cannabidiol entry on the lists is H4-CBD at liste B nr. 220, which is tetrahydrocannabidiol and a different compound. Liste B nr. 455, the Dibenzopyran-gruppen, does not reach it either. That group is built on a dibenzopyran parent and cannabidiol has no pyran ring, so it falls outside the group's structural description. What does bear on a product is section 1, which extends the lists to all preparations containing or made from the plant at liste B nr. 83, and section 1(3)(7), which takes droger of that genus and preparations of them outside the definition where the tetrahydrocannabinol content is at most 0,2 per cent. So the answer for a given product turns on its tetrahydrocannabinol content and on what it was made from, and not on a placement of cannabidiol. This cell states the reading of those two provisions and does not settle any particular product. The offence is not in the bekendtgoerelse. Section 30 says a breach of it is punished under section 3 and sections 3 a to 3 d of lov om euforiserende stoffer, and that where the circumstances in section 191 of straffeloven apply the breach is punished under that provision instead. Section 3(1) of the Act sets the ordinary penalty as a fine. The same sentence sets the custodial ceiling at imprisonment for up to 2 years. In fixing the penalty, including a fine, the court must weigh the harmful effects of the substance and, since 1 July 2025, its dangerousness. Section 191 of straffeloven raises the ceiling to imprisonment for up to 10 years where a person transfers euphoriant substances to a larger number of people, or for significant payment, or under other particularly aggravating circumstances. That ceiling rises again to imprisonment for 16 years where the transfer concerns a significant quantity of a particularly dangerous or harmful substance, or where the transfer of such a substance was otherwise of a particularly dangerous character. Section 191(2) applies the same band to importing, exporting, buying, delivering, receiving, manufacturing, processing or possessing such substances with intent to transfer. Section 3(2) of the Act treats four things as significantly aggravating, and lov nr. 724 af 20. juni 2025 added the last two of them: repeated sales of a particularly harmful or dangerous substance, sale or free transfer for later sale at restaurants including discotheques or at concerts or music festivals or other events mainly attended by children or young people, sale or free transfer for later sale through social media, and sale or free transfer for later sale in shops carrying on retail trade. Section 3 c, in force since 1 July 2025, allows a motor vehicle used in a serious breach to be confiscated, and requires confiscation where the vehicle's owner committed an offence falling under section 191, unless special grounds exceptionally tell against it. Section 3 d lets a court disqualify a person from retail shop work for supplying euphoriant substances from a shop, and impose an area ban whose breach carries imprisonment for up to 2 years. Denmark is widely described as refusing warnings for personal possession, and that description now rests on a repealed sentence. The rule that a warning could in general not be given was section 3(1) third sentence, and lov nr. 667 af 11. juni 2024 repealed it with effect from 1 July 2024. In its place section 3(4) says that a withdrawal of the charge shall be given for possession of euphoriant substances for own use where social circumstances speak for it and the possession is due to a strong dependence on hard euphoriant substances following prolonged and sustained misuse, and it says that this applies in repeat cases as well. These are Denmark's general drug penalties rather than a tariff for this substance, and whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Read against bekendtgoerelse nr. 405 af 26. marts 2026 om euforiserende stoffer as in force on 29 March 2026, which repealed bekendtgoerelse nr. 2446 af 12. december 2021 at its section 33(2), and against lov om euforiserende stoffer as consolidated on 9 December 2019 and amended by lov nr. 667 af 11. juni 2024 and lov nr. 724 af 20. juni 2025, all read at retsinformation.dk on 22 September 2026. The minister may add a substance to the lists at any time under sections 1 and 2 of the Act, so a placement and an absence are both statements about the lists as they stood on that date.
Finland
Legal status
Not a narcotic in Finland. Cannabidiol is not named in any annex of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina pidettävistä aineista, valmisteista ja kasveista 543/2008 and is not named in the annex to valtioneuvoston asetus 1130/2014, as those annexes stand after 651/2026, 1119/2025 and 650/2026. It is a medicine question instead. The Finnish Medicines Agency decision on the medicines list, 230/2025, names it in annex 1, where the Finnish column of the row reads «Kannabidioli». The row gives its Latin, Swedish and English columns as Cannabidiolum, Cannabidiol, Cannabidiol. Section 2 subsection 1 of that decision supervises the annex 1 substances, their salts and their esters as medicines under section 3 subsection 1 or 2 of lääkelaki 395/1987. Section 1 of the decision states that the list is not exhaustive and that not every product containing a listed substance meets the medicine definition, so an individual product's status turns on its own classification. Cannabis itself is a narcotic in Liite I of the decree, so a cannabidiol product carrying cannabis extract is a different question from cannabidiol as a substance.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Criminal Code chapter 44 section 5 carries the medicines offence. It sets a fine or up to one year for manufacturing, importing, storing, keeping for sale or supplying medicines contrary to the Medicines Act or the European Union medicines regulations, unless a heavier penalty is provided elsewhere. Chapter 50 of the Criminal Code (39/1889) carries the narcotics offences. Section 1 sets a fine or up to two years for a huumausainerikos covering manufacture, cultivation, import, export, transport, sale, supply, distribution and possession. Section 2 sets one to ten years for a törkeä huumausainerikos where the object is a very dangerous narcotic or a large quantity, or substantial gain is sought, or the act is part of an organised group, or serious danger to life or health is caused to several people, or the drug is spread to minors. Section 2 a sets a fine or up to six months for a huumausaineen käyttörikos, unlawful use or possession of a small quantity for own use. Section 3 sets a fine or up to two years for preparation and section 4 the same for promotion, while section 4 a sets four months to six years for aggravated promotion. Section 7 allows the charge or the sentence to be waived where the quantity, the circumstances and the use situation make the act minor as a whole, or where the suspect has entered approved treatment. The live Finland cell recorded the same three provisions and asserted no custodial term at all, and every provision it named is carried here: Criminal Code (39/1889) chapter 50, the substantive prohibitions in Narcotics Act 373/2008 section 5 with the lawful exceptions in section 3, and the consumer market conduct offence in Criminal Code chapter 44 section 5 a. The bands stated above are new to this pass and were read off the Criminal Code itself, not carried from that cell. This row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Finland's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. This row in particular. It is not named in either decree and that is a measured absence, not an assumption. The Finnish forms put to both texts for this row were «Kannabidioli», «Cannabidiol», «CBD». Against the consolidated 543/2008, whose annexes carry 196 entries in Liite I, 192 in Liite II, 11 in Liite III, 70 in Liite IV and 1 in Liite V, and against the annex to 1130/2014 as substituted by 650/2026, no form returned an entry of its own. What the search did return is a near miss rather than a hit: in the 1130/2014 annex the longer entry «Tetrahydrokannabidioli (H4-CBD)», which contains the searched form inside a different molecule's name and is not this row. The bands stated above are the narcotics bands and they are reproduced because the live cell named chapter 50. They describe the lane this row would fall into if it were listed, and on the text read here it is not.
Bolivia
Legal status
Not confirmed. No individual status was established for this row. The Anexo to Ley 913 of 16 March 2017, the list article 5(c) of that Law makes operative, does not name it anywhere in Listas I to V. The nearest entry is TETRAHIDROCANABINOLES (Todos los isómeros) in Lista I. Cannabidiol shares a molecular formula with tetrahydrocannabinol, so a purely formal reading of isomer could be argued to reach it, and that reading was considered and rejected: the head noun of the entry is tetrahidrocanabinoles, and cannabidiol is not a tetrahydrocannabinol. Nothing in the Anexo names cannabidiol. The version read is the Anexo as published in Gaceta Oficial edition 947NEC on 23 March 2017, read as at 21 September 2026, and reading it does not rule out a later addition, because article 5(c) closes with las que sean incorporadas por Ley, incorporation by Law. That is an unresolved row and not a permission. [Certain] on the search, [Likely] that the substance is outside the list, because a list can be amended and a name can be printed in a form the search did not anticipate.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 15 I of the 2009 Constitution reads, in its own words, No existe la pena de muerte, and no limb of the Bolivian drug law carries a capital penalty. Nothing in the Anexo to Ley 913 was found to name this substance. The nearest entry is TETRAHIDROCANABINOLES (Todos los isómeros) in Lista I. Cannabidiol shares a molecular formula with tetrahydrocannabinol, so a purely formal reading of isomer could be argued to reach it, and that reading was considered and rejected: the head noun of the entry is tetrahidrocanabinoles, and cannabidiol is not a tetrahydrocannabinol. Nothing in the Anexo names cannabidiol. Ley 1008 of 19 July 1988 article 48 punishes whoever traffics in sustancias controladas with presidio de diez a veinticinco años y diez mil a veinte mil días multa, ten to twenty five years and ten thousand to twenty thousand day fines, and it makes trafficking in larger volumes an aggravating circumstance. Article 48 takes its conduct from article 33(m) of the same law, which Ley 913 left standing and which defines tráfico ilícito as producing, manufacturing, knowingly possessing, holding in deposit or storage, transporting, delivering, supplying, buying, selling, donating, bringing into the country, taking out of the country and financing. The rest of the ladder sits in the same title. Article 46, cultivating or harvesting controlled plants, one to two years and two to four on a second offence. Article 47, manufacture, five to fifteen years. Article 50, administering to another, ten to fifteen years. Article 51, supplying to another, eight to twelve years. Article 52, fifteen to twenty years where the administering or supplying gravely harms health and twenty to thirty where the conduct results in a death. Article 53, a third more where two or more people organise. Article 55, transport, eight to twelve years with definitive seizure of the vehicle. The day fine unit is the statute's own and is not converted here. Article 49 sends the dependent user and the non habitual user caught holding a minimum quantity for immediate personal consumption to a farmacodependencia institute for treatment rather than to prison. That minimum is fixed case by case on the opinion of two specialists from a public institute and no gram figure is printed anywhere in the statute. Holding more than the minimum falls into article 48. A foreign national without permanent residence who commits these acts has the residence law applied and a fine of five hundred to one thousand days, which is the sentence in the article most likely to reach a traveller and which the live cell did not carry. Those are Bolivia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established.
Ecuador
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Ecuador's authorities (COIP; Constitution Art 364) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Ecuadorian sources (COIP Arts 220/228; Constitution Art 364; the repealed CONSEP table), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. Personal-use possession is non-punishable in Ecuador (Constitution Art 364 treats consumption as a public-health matter and bars criminalizing consumers; the COIP confirms personal-use possession is not punishable, and CNJ Resolution 14-2023 confirmed this remains fully in force). CRITICAL: the former CONSEP quantity table was [repealed] by Executive Decree No. 28 on 24 November 2023, the old bright-line thresholds NO LONGER EXIST, there is now NO defined personal-use quantity, and trafficking intent is assessed case-by-case (a legal grey area). Trafficking is tiered (COIP Art 220): minimum 3-5 years, medium 5-7, high 19-22, large 22-26.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
Personal-use possession is NON-PUNISHABLE: Constitution Art 364 treats consumption as a public-health matter and bars criminalizing consumers, and the COIP confirms personal-use possession is not punishable (CNJ Resolution 14-2023 confirmed this remains fully in force). CRITICAL: the former CONSEP quantity table (Resolution 001-CONSEP-CO-2013, about 10 g cannabis, 1 g cocaine, 0.1 g heroin, 0.015 g MDMA) was [repealed] by Executive Decree No. 28 on 24 November 2023; those gram thresholds NO LONGER EXIST. There is now NO defined personal-use quantity, trafficking intent is assessed case-by-case (a legal grey area). Trafficking is tiered (COIP Art 220): minimum 3-5 years, medium 5-7, high 19-22, large 22-26. Medical cannabis is legal (2019 Assembly vote; products under 1% THC via pharmacy). [contested] A REDCAN citizen cannabis-regulation initiative was pending in the National Assembly in 2025. Ecuador has NO death penalty for drugs. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Constitution (2008) Art 364 + COIP Arts 220/228 + CNJ Resolution 14-2023 + Executive Decree No. 28 (24 November 2023) · asamblea.gob.ec · defensoria.gob.ec · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Paraguay
Legal status
Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the search did not settle whether it is controlled by another route. Cannabidiol and CBD returned nothing anywhere in the schedule.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] Placement for this row was not established. Cannabidiol and CBD returned nothing anywhere in the schedule. The cannabis entries in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet are for the plant tops and for the resin with its extracts and tinctures, and whether a cannabidiol preparation is an extract of cannabis within that entry was not settled from the text. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain] The penalties set out above are Paraguay's published penalties under Ley 1.340/1988. They are not this row's exposure, because whether any of those offences reaches this substance is exactly what was not established. Why this row defers rather than reporting a settled absence. Article 1 limb b of Ley 1.340/1988 reaches Todas aquellas de origen natural o sintetico que puedan producir estados de dependencia, estimulacion o depresion del sistema nervioso central, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to a Convention substance. On its own words that is an open pharmacological description rather than a list, and it describes a psychoactive substance without naming one. The article then provides that the substances of limbs b and c are to be established by decree. Whether limb b can reach a substance the decree has not named was not settled from any text read here, and no Paraguayan decision on the point was found. An absence from the decree and from the Convention lists therefore narrows this question and does not close it, which is why this cell states no answer rather than a negative one. The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.
Ghana
Legal status
Controlled under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019). The entry relied on for CBD is Sixth Schedule item 3, which names «Cannabidiol». That entry was read in the official parliamentary text of the Act on 20 September 2026. The offences are in sections 36 to 45 and repeat convictions in section 50.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The record this cell rests on states no death penalty in Act 1019 and no drug quantity that triggers life imprisonment. The fine and imprisonment band for an offence under sections 36 to 45 is the one the Second Schedule to the Act sets for that offence; the band figures are not reproduced in this source record. Section 50 says the court shall impose life imprisonment on a third qualifying trafficking-type conviction.
If prescribed / medical
The source this cell rests on, the Sixth Schedule item 3 entry and sections 36 to 50 of Act 1019, does not state a prescription or medical route for CBD.
Documentation
The source this cell rests on does not state an import permit or traveller documentation rule for CBD.
Narcotics Control Commission Act, 2020 (Act 1019), Sixth Schedule item 3, sections 36 to 45 and 50, Second Schedule · repository.parliament.gh · Updated October 3, 2026
Israel
Legal status
Not confirmed, not named in the First Schedule as read; confirm with Israel's authorities / your embassy
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass from the Ordinance itself: the words מוות, תלייה and הוצאה להורג return zero hits across the whole text, and so does עולם, so there is no life route either, and the heaviest sentence anywhere in it is the 25 years of section 21 for involving a minor. [Certain] Cannabidiol is not named in the First Schedule as read, and neither cannabidiol nor CBD appears anywhere in the Ordinance. What does reach it is the cannabis entry at חלק א' סימן א' פרט 1, whose definition covers any plant of the genus Cannabis and every part of it excluding oil produced from its seeds, so CBD carried in plant material is caught through the plant while an isolated molecule is not named. Read against the consolidated First Schedule whose own amendment note at its head ends at התשע"ח and whose schedule pages carry the 1.4.2018 update stamp, with section 7 stamped 1.1.2019 and the file closing with (סוף הפקודה); a later amendment to the Schedule is not ruled out, and this reading is of that version and no other. [Certain] Section 1 defines סם מסוכן as חומר מן המפורטים בתוספת הראשונה לרבות כל מלח שלו, וכן כל תכשיר, תרכובת, תערובת או תמיסה של חומר כאמור ומלחיהם, a substance listed in the First Schedule including any salt of it, and also any preparation, compound, mixture or solution of such a substance and of their salts. That definition reaches salts and mixtures and stops there: it says nothing about isomers, analogues or structural derivatives, so those come only from the words of an individual פרט or of a סימן wide sweep clause. Section 7(c) sets up to 20 years or a fine 25 times the fine in section 61(a)(4) of the Penal Law 5737-1977 for possession or use, dropping to 3 years or the plain section 61(a)(4) fine where the drug was held or used for the person's own consumption alone. Section 6 sets the same 20 years for growing, manufacturing, producing, preparing or extracting without the Director's licence. Section 19A sets 20 years for the trade and transit offences of sections 13 to 18, which reach export, import, brokering, dealing, any other transaction and supply whether or not for payment. Section 21 raises it to 25 years on any of its three limbs, giving a dangerous drug to a minor, being responsible for a minor and allowing him to obtain or use one, or inducing a minor to obtain or use one, and section 25 bars a wholly suspended sentence or a probation order on that conviction. [Certain] Section 20 is not a penalty provision at all, it is the customs inspection power over a consignment carried in transit through Israel. No Second Schedule quantity is set for this substance, so the section 31(3) reverse onus, which presumes possession beyond personal consumption above a listed weight, has no threshold to run from here.
If prescribed / medical
Not named in the First Schedule as read, so sections 11 and 12 of the Ordinance are not engaged by name for it. Medicines are separately regulated in Israel under the Pharmacists Ordinance and the regulations made under it, and that body of law was not read in this pass. [Likely] Carry the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm with an Israeli mission before travelling.
Panama
Legal status
Not confirmed. Whether Panama's criminal definition of a drug reaches CBD was not established by the instruments read here. It is not named in Resolución 200 of 2025 and no entry for it was read in the schedules of the 1961 or 1971 Conventions. Article 324 of the Código Penal defines the criminal object for the whole drug chapter, and it does so functionally and by incorporation rather than by a closed national list: «droga es toda sustancia que produzca dependencia física o síquica, como los narcóticos, fármacos, estupefacientes y todos aquellos productos, precursores y sustancias químicas esenciales que sirven para su elaboración, transformación o preparación, de conformidad con las disposiciones legales en materia de salud, convenios y acuerdos internacionales vigentes en la República de Panamá.». Panama therefore has no closed criminal schedule of its own. A substance is reached where it produces physical or psychic dependence and where the health legislation and the international conventions in force in Panama place it, so a reader looking for a Panamanian chemical annex to be absent from is looking for a document the criminal law does not use. Because the definition opens with a functional test rather than a list, an absence from the lists that were read does not close the question, and nothing read here shows the dependence limb being applied to this row. No cannabidiol entry appears in either treaty list, and the national controlled list does not name it. Panama instead regulates it through the hemp statute, which defines hemp as a cannabis plant whose concentration does not exceed 1% by dry weight. So the position of a given product turns on its measured content rather than on the name of the cannabinoid, and that measurement is what was not available for this row.
Consequences if caught
The articles below are set out in full because the placement question for CBD is open, and if it were answered against the traveller these are the provisions that would apply. The decisive fact is the measured concentration in the product, because at or below the statutory limit the hemp route applies and above it the material is cannabis. Article 321 sets 8 to 12 years of prison for unlawful possession in circumstances objectively showing it is not for consumption, and its printed words are «Quien ilícitamente posea drogas, en circunstancias que objetivamente permitan determinar que no es para el consumo, será sancionado con ocho a doce años de prisión.». Article 312 sets the same 8 to 12 years where two or more people agree to commit a drug offence. Article 313 sets 10 to 15 years for bringing a drug into the national territory, even in transit, and raises that by a third to a half where the drug is brought in for local sale or distribution. Article 314 sets 10 to 15 years for sowing, cultivating, extracting, transforming or manufacturing, and article 318 sets 10 to 15 years for buying, selling, storing or exchanging for commercial purposes, doubled in the five aggravated cases it lists. Article 319 sets 8 to 12 years for devoting premises or a vehicle to drug activity, rising to 10 to 15 years for the owner of a commercial place open to the public. Article 322 sets 20 to 25 years where conduct under articles 312, 313 or 321 is carried out by the leaders, directors or organisers of a criminal band, and its words are «la pena será de veinte a veinticinco años de prisión.», so the ceiling this chapter carries is 25 years. The dossier for this country stated that ceiling as 20 years and that is corrected here against the article itself. Article 320 covers buying or possessing for one's own consumption in scarce quantity, and its penalty is a fine of 50 to 250 day units, weekend arrest or community work, in the words «Quien ilícitamente compre o posea drogas para su consumo en escasa cantidad será sancionado con cincuenta a doscientos cincuenta días-multa o arresto de fines de semana o trabajo comunitario.». Where the person is physically or psychically dependent and the quantity is scarce, article 320 imposes a security measure instead. The live cell attributed a band of 2 to 4 years to article 320; that band is in the third paragraph of article 313 and it applies where a drug is brought into the country and the scarce quantity and the other circumstances show unequivocally that it is for personal consumption, in the words «La sanción será de dos a cuatro años de prisión o su equivalente en días-multa o medidas curativas cuando, por su escasa cantidad y demás circunstancias, se determine inequívocamente que la droga es para el consumo personal.». Panama publishes no numerical quantity table for this corpus. Article 320 provides that scarce quantity for personal use is the measure the Instituto de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses determines in each case according to the person's state of dependence, «Se entenderá por cantidad escasa destinada a su uso personal la medida que determine el Instituto de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses, en cada caso, según el estado de dependencia de la persona.», so the live cell's gloss of a single dose is corrected here as not what the article says. Article 323 directs the court to weigh the dangerousness of the drug and its market value when placing a sentence inside a band. Panama provides no death penalty for any drug offence. Those figures are carried forward from the live cell and re-derived against the Penal Code itself, and whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
Nigeria
Legal status
CBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as cannabis. The NDLEA Act (Cap. N30, 2004) and Indian Hemp Act 1966 ban any part of the Cannabis plant with no distinction between CBD and THC and no threshold, so CBD products are prohibited.
Consequences if caught
Possession is an offence and import/export of Indian hemp carries not less than 21 years' imprisonment with no option of a fine; The NDLEA Act's cannabis penalties are custodial, up to life for major trafficking, and that Act carries no death penalty. The Indian Hemp Act is unrepealed and its section 2(1) provides either death or imprisonment for not less than twenty one years for cultivating cannabis, so capital exposure attaches under that Act to cultivation.
If prescribed / medical
There is no consumer CBD route; a medical-cannabis product would require NAFDAC registration, which is not established for CBD.
Documentation
No documentation legalises CBD, which is controlled as cannabis; NAFDAC has not opened a consumer or medical CBD pathway.
Not confirmed for Bangladesh. Cannabidiol is named nowhere in the First Schedule and there is no cannabidiol exemption either. Class 'kha' serial 1 reaches substances prepared with cannabis only where they are «নেশা অথবা আসক্তি সৃষ্টিতে সক্ষম», capable of producing intoxication or addiction, which is a question about the preparation rather than a flat rule, and the Act supplies no percentage. A cannabis extract carrying tetrahydrocanabinol is a different question and is reached by Class 'ka' serial 6. Searched, on 2026-09-17: the full First Schedule as printed in the Bangladesh Gazette of 14 November 2018, all three classes and every serial, for the substance's name and its common synonyms and abbreviations; the consolidated Act on bdlaws for the same terms; the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Acts of 2020 and 2026 for any schedule amendment, finding none in either; and the Department of Narcotics Control's own list of laws and rules, which carries ten instruments and no schedule amendment. What came back was nothing. The status is therefore not confirmed, and the open question is whether Class 'ka' serial 7, Class 'kha' serial 5 or Class 'ga' serial 4 reaches it as a derivative, isomer, analogue or agonist of something that is named, which is a question the Act's words leave to a court.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Section 9(1) prohibits, for every narcotic except alcohol, cultivation, production or processing, carrying, transport or transfer, import and export at limb (a); supply, marketing, buying, selling, transfer, receipt, sending, dealing, auction, holding, possession, storage, warehousing and display at limb (b); consumption, application or use at limb (c); and any attempt, investment of money, establishing, running or patronising an operation, or a false declaration, at limb (d). Section 36 then sets the penalty from a 34 row table whose second column names a First Schedule class and serial number, not a substance, so what a substance is punished by depends entirely on which serial it sits in. This substance is in no serial of the First Schedule that could be identified, so no row of the section 36 table can be matched to it and no penalty range is stated here. Do not read that as permission. Section 65 lets the Government add a name to any schedule by notification in the official Gazette at any time, and Class 'ka' serial 7, Class 'kha' serial 5 and Class 'ga' serial 4 each sweep in the derivatives, alkaloids, salts, isomers, analogues and agonists of the substances above them. No quantity threshold applies to cannabidiol because no schedule entry was matched to it, and the death penalty under the section 36 table reaches only three entries in the whole schedule: Class 'ka' serials 4, 5 and 6. Nothing in Class 'kha' or Class 'ga' is capital under that table, and neither is Class 'ka' serial 1, 2, 3, 7 or 8. Section 36A, inserted by the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2026 on 16 July 2026 and in force at once, adds a capital route that has no quantity threshold and no class restriction at all. Buying, selling, supplying, offering, advertising, brokering or communicating about a narcotic or a psychoactive substance through cyberspace, a digital device, a website, social media, a mobile application, an online platform or any other digital medium, or using a digital payment system, an e-wallet, a virtual asset or a cryptocurrency for those purposes, is punishable under section 36A(2) by «যে কোনো মেয়াদের কারাদণ্ডে অথবা সর্বোচ্চ মৃত্যুদণ্ডে», imprisonment for any term or at the maximum death, with a fine of up to 20 lakh taka. Its proviso states that recovery of the drug from the offender is not required. This reaches any substance that is a narcotic under section 2(29), which is anything in the First Schedule, and the schedule's own Explanation at clause (ক) defines a psychoactive substance as anything in Class 'ka' serials 4, 5 and 6, Class 'kha' serials 4 and 5, or Class 'ga' serials 3 and 4. So a substance outside the schedule is outside the section 36 table, and would only reach the capital tier if a court read it into one of those three serials through the derivative and analogue clauses. One caution, because it is the likeliest way a traveller meets the capital tier by accident: Tetrahydrocanabinol and Cannabis resin are both named in Class 'ka' serial 6, which IS capital at death or life above 25 grammes or millilitres. A full spectrum cannabidiol oil that carries any THC is on the face of section 2(29)(b) a mixture containing a Class 'ka' serial 6 narcotic, weighed whole.
Pakistan
Legal status
CBD is caught, by a chain of definitions rather than by a schedule entry. Section 2(r) defines medicinal hemp as 'any extract or tincture of hemp'. Section 2(q)(i) makes medicinal hemp a manufactured drug. Section 2(s) makes every manufactured drug a narcotic drug. A cannabidiol extract is an extract of hemp. So a cannabidiol extract is a narcotic drug under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997 even though cannabidiol is named in no schedule.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. CBD reaches a band only through what it is made from. Where the material is plant cannabis the section 9(1) table applies directly, at row 1 for Bhang, row 3 for Charas and row 4 for Hashish oil and liquid Hashish. Where it is an isolate, Schedule-I does not name cannabidiol and the section 9(1) table has no row for medicinal hemp, only for Bhang, Post or poppy straw, Charas, Hashish oil and liquid Hashish, Opium, Heroin and morphine, and Cocaine, so the residual applies and section 16 gives three years and fine. Neither route reaches a capital band and neither reaches life for an isolate. Death is not available. Act No. XXXVIII of 2023, section 2, assented on 2 August 2023 and published in the Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, on 5 August 2023, removed every death reference from section 9. The words at the heroin and morphine band of 6000 grams or more and at the cocaine band of 5000 grams or more were omitted, and the Pakistan Code now prints a bracketed omission mark where they stood. In the fourth proviso to section 9(2) the words 'may be death or' were replaced by 'shall be'. The word death survives twice in the whole fifty page Act and both are procedural. Because death is unavailable, the question whether it is mandatory does not arise. The ceiling is life, and section 9A(3) says what that means: 'Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for time being in force, imprisonment for life under this Act means imprisonment in jail for the period of twenty-five years.' Section 9A(2) bars probation and parole, and section 9A(1) bars remission except for a juvenile or a female convict.
If prescribed / medical
Where a prescription for CBD exists at all, rule 2(1)(xxix) says what it has to be: 'a written direction by a practitioner that a stated amount of a drug of abuse be dispensed for the person named therein'. Section 6 prohibits possession and the rest 'except for medical, scientific or industrial purposes in the manner and subject to such conditions as may be specified by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force'. The conditions are the Control of Narcotic Substances (Regulation of Drugs of Abuse, Controlled Chemicals, Equipment and Materials) Rules, 2001, which run a registration, licence and permit system under rules 5 to 18. Rule 14 provides for permits in relation to first-aid kits and rule 15 for programmes for medical and scientific purposes, and rule 11 governs import, export and transit permits. A traveller carrying a prescribed medicine should hold the prescription and the dispensing label, in the prescriber's name, and should expect the quantity to be measured against the section 9 bands if the substance is scheduled.
Taiwan
Legal status
Not controlled as a narcotic under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例): absent by name from all four narcotics schedules and from the controlled drugs grades and items list, and governed instead by the tetrahydrocannabinol content of the product. Cannabidiol has no entry of its own in either list. Its legal position in Taiwan is therefore decided entirely by what else is in the bottle, because 附表二第155項「四氫大麻酚（Tetrahydrocannabinols、THCs）」 sets a ceiling of 10 micrograms per gramme of tetrahydrocannabinol for products made from mature cannabis stems and seeds. The model: the four grades and their anchor substances are in the Act itself, article 2(2) reading 「毒品依其成癮性、濫用性及對社會危害性，分為四級，其品項如下」, and the full item lists are the Act's own four schedules, 附表一 to 附表四. The power to change them is delegated. Article 2(3) reads 「前項毒品之分級及品項，由法務部會同衛生福利部組成審議委員會，每三個月定期檢討，審議委員會並得將具有成癮性、濫用性、對社會危害性之虞之麻醉藥品與其製品、影響精神物質與其製品及與該等藥品、物質或製品具有類似化學結構之物質進行審議，並經審議通過後，報由行政院公告調整、增減之，並送請立法院查照」, a review committee of the justice and health ministries reviewing every three months, adjustment by Executive Yuan announcement, reported to the Legislative Yuan. The Act was last amended 4 May 2022. The list was last amended by the Executive Yuan announcement of 25 June 2026, in force 27 June 2026, which moved etomidate and eight related compounds from Category 2 up to Category 1.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No article of the Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act applies, because articles 4 to 11 operate only on substances graded in the Act's four schedules and this substance is in none of them. A cannabidiol product above that 10 parts per million ceiling is not a lightly regulated supplement, it is a Category 2 narcotic, and sale is article 4(2) at life or ten years upward. Below it, the product is outside the narcotics schedules and is an unapproved drug under article 22(1)(2) of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act unless it holds a licence. Neither reaches this substance, and not because the penalty is low but because no narcotics offence applies to it at all, at any quantity. Articles 4 to 11 of the Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act operate only on substances graded in the Act's four schedules, and the death and life penalties live in article 4(1) for Category 1, article 6(1) for forced administration of a Category 1 narcotic, article 4(2) for life on Category 2, and article 15(1) for a public official committing an article 4(2) or article 6(1) offence. None of those can be engaged by a substance with no schedule entry. The one qualification is article 9(3), 「犯前五條之罪而混合二種以上之毒品者，適用其中最高級別毒品之法定刑，並加重其刑至二分之一」: if this substance is held mixed with substances that are graded, the charge is built on those, takes the highest grade among them and adds up to one half, and this substance is swept into that charge rather than giving rise to one of its own.
If prescribed / medical
No cannabidiol medicine holds a Taiwanese marketing licence. Access to an overseas licensed cannabidiol medicine runs through the special import route for a named patient, which needs both a prescription and an individual import permit.
Hong Kong
Legal status
Controlled as a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134). Named in Part I of the First Schedule as Cannabidiol. Maximum penalty for trafficking is a fine of $5,000,000 and imprisonment for life.
Consequences if caught
This substance is a dangerous drug in Hong Kong because Part I of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance names it as Cannabidiol. Trafficking is the offence in section 4 and the Ordinance defines trafficking to include importing into Hong Kong, exporting from Hong Kong, procuring, supplying, otherwise dealing in the drug, and possessing it for the purpose of trafficking, so import, export and sale are not separate offences with separate bands. Section 4(3) sets a fine of $5,000,000 and imprisonment for life on conviction on indictment, and a fine of $500,000 and imprisonment for 3 years on summary conviction. Manufacture under section 6(2) carries a fine of $5,000,000 and imprisonment for life on indictment. Possession other than for trafficking, and smoking, inhaling, ingesting or injecting, are one offence under section 8, carrying a fine of $1,000,000 and imprisonment for 7 years on indictment and a fine at level 6 and imprisonment for 3 years summarily, in each case subject to section 54A. The fine and the imprisonment are cumulative in every band, because the Ordinance says a fine and imprisonment rather than a fine or imprisonment. Read against the consolidation as in force on 2026-06-12 for the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance and as in force on 2026-07-03 for the Pharmacy and Poisons Regulations. Hong Kong amends the First Schedule by order of the Chief Executive published in the Gazette under section 50(1), so a substance can be added between consolidations.
If prescribed / medical
There is a lawful medical route. Section 22 authorises listed classes of person to possess and supply dangerous drugs in the course of their work, section 25 authorises a patient to possess a dangerous drug supplied on a doctor's prescription, and section 31 governs supply on prescription. Carry the drug in its dispensed container with the prescription or a doctor's letter.
Documentation
Hong Kong Customs and Excise enforces the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance at the border. Declare any controlled medicine, carry it in its original dispensed container, and carry the prescription or a doctor's letter naming the drug, the dose and the patient. Confirm requirements with the Department of Health and with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed. Ley Orgánica de Drogas article 3 identifies controlled drugs by reference to the Convention schedules, and no anchored entry for this substance was found in the 1961 Yellow List or the 1971 Green List editions read, nor in the Law's Anexo I. Article 2 also lets the health and intermediate industries ministries determine further substances and no consolidated ministerial list was obtainable, so this is unresolved and not a proved absence. Confirm with Venezuela's authorities before travel.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The Constitution forbids it at article 43, read here in the Contraloría General de la República text: “El derecho a la vida es inviolable. Ninguna ley podrá establecer la pena de muerte, ni autoridad alguna aplicarla.” [Certain], re derived from that text in this pass. The abolition itself is usually dated to the Decreto de Garantías of 1863. [Likely] and carried, not re derived: that decree was not read here, and the year 1863 appears nowhere in the Constitution or in the Ley Orgánica de Drogas. Consumption is a separate route and it is not in the offences title. Article 141 provides that a person found consuming, or who declares themselves a consumer, or who holds a quantity not above the personal dose for consumption of article 131 numeral 2, is put at the disposal of the Ministerio Público, which has toxicological tests run on urine, blood or other organic fluids and a chemical and botanical examination made of the substance seized, and then asks the control judge for the person's liberty subject to attending a specialised rehabilitation centre. Where consumption is confirmed the outcome is obligatory treatment and a social reinsertion programme. Article 130 has the judge order obligatory rehabilitation in a specialised centre and allows reinserción social, seguimiento and servicio comunitario alongside it. Article 142 has the judge also suspend the driving licence and any firearms carry licence. Article 139 separately suspends a driving licence for not less than six months for driving under the effects of these substances, with obligatory treatment. Those provisions sit in Título V, Del Consumo y el Procedimiento, not in the offences and penalties title that carries articles 149 to 153, and the route turns on the quantity being at or below the personal dose. Article 153 punishes illicit possession of estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas, their mixtures, salts or pharmaceutical specialities, or controlled chemicals, for purposes other than the licit activities the Law declares or the personal consumption of article 131, with one to two years. Article 149 punishes trafficking, commerce, supply, distribution, concealment, transport by any means, storage or brokerage with fifteen to twenty five years. That falls to twelve to eighteen years where the quantity does not exceed 5,000 g of marihuana, 1,000 g of genetically modified marihuana, 1,000 g of cocaine or cocaine based narcotic substances, 60 g of poppy derivatives or 500 units of synthetic drugs, and to eight to twelve years where it exceeds the article 153 maxima but does not pass 500 g of marihuana, 200 g of genetically modified marihuana, 50 g of cocaine, 10 g of poppy derivatives or 100 units of synthetic drugs. Directing or financing those operations carries twenty five to thirty years, and thirty years is the ceiling of this Law, not the twenty five of the first paragraph. Article 150 punishes illicit manufacture, elaboration, refining, transformation, extraction, preparation, mixing or production with fifteen to twenty years, and directing or financing those operations with twenty five to thirty years; that, not article 149, is the governing article for a clandestine producer. Article 151 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting, storing, trafficking, transporting, concealing or distributing seeds, resins and plants containing these substances with twelve to eighteen years, six to ten years where the seed or resin does not exceed 300 g or the plants do not exceed 10 units, and twenty five to thirty years for directing or financing, and where the plants are genetically modified marihuana it increases the penalty by half. Article 163 lists fourteen aggravating circumstances for trafficking in all its forms, for illicit manufacture and production and for trafficking in seeds, resins and plants, among them using children, people with disabilities, people living on the street, older adults or indigenous people, commission by public officials or by someone simulating that condition, commission in a home, an educational, cultural, sporting or religious institution, a prison, a public transport vehicle, a public office or a treatment and rehabilitation centre, and commission within 500 m of such places. For numerals 2, 7, 9, 10 and 13 the penalty rises by one third to one half, and in the remaining cases by one half. Applied to the twenty five to thirty year limb that uplift would pass thirty years, while Constitution article 44 numeral 3 provides that there shall be no perpetual or infamous sentences and that custodial penalties “no excederán de treinta años”. The Law does not say how the two are reconciled. Article 153 prints its possession figures only for cocaine and its derivatives, compounds or mixtures at up to 2 g, marihuana at up to 20 g, genetically modified marihuana at up to 5 g and poppy derivatives at up to 1 g, and article 149 prints its band figures only for those families and for units of synthetic drugs. No figure is printed for this substance. Where the offence reaches it, the amount that counts as a personal dose falls to the court: article 131 defines the personal dose by tolerance, degree of dependence, individual pattern of consumption, the psychophysical characteristics of the person and the nature of the substance, and states that the judge shall appreciate it rationally and scientifically on the report of the forensic experts, while the third paragraph of article 153 has the judge determine, using the maximum experience of experts as a reference, what may constitute a personal dose of the substance concerned for an average person. Those figures are not in article 131, which prints no gram amount at all. Those are Venezuela's published penalties. They are not this row's exposure. Whether the offence articles reach this substance is exactly what was not established, because the Law identifies estupefacientes and sustancias psicotrópicas by reference to the Convention schedules rather than by a national chemical annex, and no anchored entry for this substance was found in either incorporated list. Read as at the INCB Yellow List, 65th edition of July 2026, for the 1961 Convention schedules and the INCB Green List, 36th edition of 2025, for the 1971 Convention schedules. That does not rule out a later edition, and article 2 of the Law lets the health and intermediate industries ministries determine further substances, so this is an unresolved row and not a proved absence.
Guatemala
Legal status
Not confirmed. Placement under Decreto 48-92 was not established from the lists read, and this is unresolved rather than absent.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. This is established rather than assumed, because Decreto 48-92 as enacted did carry a death penalty: article 12 lists "De muerte" first among the principal penalties for natural persons, and article 52, "Delitos calificados por el resultado", provided that "Si como consecuencia de los delitos tipificados en esta ley, resultare la muerte de una o más personas, se aplicará la pena de muerte o treinta años de prisión, según las circunstancias del hecho". Two things remove it. First, the Corte de Constitucionalidad expelled article 12 literal a) and the words "muerte o" from article 52 by judgment of 24 October 2017, expediente 5986-2016 [Likely, taken from secondary reports; the Court's own record was not reached, and one of those reports contradicts itself on the expediente number]. Second, and independently of that judgment, article 52 was never conditioned on a substance or on a quantity but only on a resulting death, so no row of this table carried capital exposure even on the 1992 text [Certain, re-derived from the gazette this pass]. Readers should know that the government's own published text of the law, at senabed.gob.gt, still prints both capital passages intact. Decreto 48-92 annexes no list of substances. Article 1 reaches the drugs "incluidos en los convenios y tratados internacionales al respecto, ratificados por Guatemala y en cualquier otro instrumento jurídico internacional que sobre esta materia se apruebe", and article 2(b) defines "Estupefacientes y sustancias psicotrópicas" as "Cualquier droga natural o sintética, así considerada en tratados o convenios internacionales de observancia obligatoria en la República de Guatemala, el Código de Salud y demás disposiciones que se emitan para determinar las drogas de uso prohibido a que se refiere la presente ley". An anchored search of the whole 57 KB law text returned no substance name at all, which is the measurement behind that reading. The health authority says the same thing in its own words: MSPAS Normativa 22-2001, section 2, states that "Los Estupefacientes y Sicotrópicos son los enumerados en la Convención Unica de 1961 sobre Estupefacientes, en el Convenio sobre Substancias Sicotrópicas de 1971 y en la Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra el Tráfico Ilícito de Estupefacientes y Sustancias Sicotrópicas y otras Sustancias consideradas como tales por las leyes del país y por las disposiciones dictadas por la autoridad de salud". This row was searched under "cannabidiol", "CBD", and with mechanical spelling variants of those, 5 candidate terms in all, matched anchored at the start of an entry name so that a longer entry containing the term could not be read as this row. None of them began an entry. The term "cannabidiol" returns nothing in either list. Two entries were read and both are about a different constituent or the plant itself: PT 002 in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention names six tetrahydrocannabinol isomers, none of which is this row, and NC 001 in Schedule I of the 1961 Convention is "CANNABIS", described as "the flowering or fruiting tops of the cannabis plant". That second point matters for this row in a way it does not for a synthetic: this substance in plant material may be caught as cannabis even though the isolated compound is nowhere named, and which of the two a given product is was not established here. The lists read were the INCB Yellow List, 64th edition of July 2025, for the 1961 Convention, the INCB Green List, 35th edition of 2024, for the 1971 Convention, the INCB Red List, 23rd edition of July 2025, for Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention, and Acuerdo Gubernativo 54-2003. Those are the three treaties MSPAS Normativa 22-2001 section 2 names, so limb one is now read in full; an earlier version of this cell had read two of the three and substituted a national Acuerdo for the 1988 tables. The Código de Salud and the "demás disposiciones que se emitan" were not obtained, so this row is unresolved rather than absent, and as at those editions the position does not rule out a later national provision reaching this substance. Acuerdo Ministerial 239-2022 amended Listado I of Acuerdo Gubernativo 54-2003, which is direct evidence that these lists move. What follows is Guatemala's published penalty scheme, and it is the country's scheme and not this row's exposure, because whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established. Article 38, "Comercio, tráfico y almacenamiento ilícito", sets prison of twelve to twenty years and a fine of Q50,000 to Q1,000,000, both of those figures being money and neither of them a quantity of any substance. Article 39, "Posesión para el consumo", makes possession for one's own consumption an offence in its own right, at four months to two years and a fine of Q200 to Q10,000, consumption being made out where the seized drug "no exceda de la cantidad razonable para el consumo inmediato". No article states a gram figure for any substance, so the line between personal use and trafficking is judicial. Article 36 sets five to twenty years for sowing or cultivation and article 37 eight to twenty years for manufacture, which puts the ceiling on the conduct articles at twenty years. Article 15 names article 39 among the sentences that may be commuted where the prison term does not exceed five years, at Q5 to Q100 per day. One penalty in article 12 speaks directly to a non-Guatemalan reader. The principal penalties for natural persons are listed there, and literal f) is "Expulsión del territorio nacional de extranjeros", expulsion of foreign nationals from the national territory. It is a principal penalty in its own right and not an administrative consequence.
Nepal
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Nepal's authorities (Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 2033) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Nepali sources (Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 2033 (1976 AD), amended through 1998), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. Controlled drugs carry tiered penalties up to life imprisonment; Nepal has NO death penalty (the maximum is life).
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
Nepal has NO death penalty, the maximum drug penalty is life imprisonment (jiban kaidi), under the Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 2033 (1976 AD, amended through 1998). Historically cannabis was legal through government shops until 1973; a cannabis-legalization bill is currently tabled but NOT enacted (proposed, not law). Cannabis consumption draws up to 1 month or an NPR 2,000 fine (first-time minor offenders may be released on a bond, and there is no punishment for a person in recognized treatment, Sec 19A). Cannabis possession is tiered: 50 g or less up to 3 months; 50-500 g up to 1 year; 500 g, 2 kg up to 2 years; 2-10 kg up to 3 years; 10 kg or more 2-10 years plus a fine (a reported personal-use line is about 5 g cannabis / 2 g hashish). Heroin and cocaine: 5 g or less 2-5 years; 5-100 g 5-10 years; over 100 g or any trafficking 10 years to life plus an NPR 500,000-2,500,000 fine. Cultivation: 25 plants or fewer up to 3 months; more than 25 plants 3 months, 3 years. Other hard drugs (methamphetamine/'yaba', MDMA, LSD) are controlled, with trafficking punishable up to life. Foreigners face the same law, no bail, and deportation after sentence. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 2033 (1976 AD), amended through 1998, Secs 19/19A · lawcommission.gov.np · Updated July 14, 2026
Romania
Legal status
CBD is not controlled in Romania, and that is a completed finding rather than an open question. The search recorded for this row is «Căutare exactă 18 Sep 2026: “cannabidiol”; “CBD”; “canabidiol”, în Legea 143/2000, tabelele I-III şi clauzele privind sărurile şi produsele. Rezultat: nicio înscriere pentru CBD şi nicio trimitere nominală în Legea 194/2011.». Absence from Romania's named schedules is a completed negative result for this slug; it is not deferred as an unperformed search. Romania uses the simplest of the three models: the schedule sits inside the Act. Article 1(a) makes Tables I to IV integral to Legea 143/2000 and supplies the mechanism for adding, deleting or moving an entry. Tables I and II are droguri de mare risc, high-risk drugs; Table III is droguri de risc. A mixture is reached through a listed constituent. Legea 194/2011 is a separate products regime and does not turn an unlisted name into a scheduled drug. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026. The consolidated text identifies Legea 30/2025 as the latest schedule amendment included, effective 29 March 2025, and states that it contains all officially published amendments through that Act. An absence is a statement about a list at a moment, and this one is stated as at that consolidation and no later.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Romania has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence. And none of the drug penalties reach CBD, because they attach to the substances on the Romania list and CBD is not one of them. The scale runs by table and by conduct. Article 4(1) sets 3 months to 2 years or a fine for unauthorised own-use acts involving a Table III risk drug, and article 4(2) sets 6 months to 3 years where the drug is high-risk. Article 2 sets 3 to 10 years for risk-drug circulation and 5 to 15 years for high-risk. Article 3(2) sets 10 to 20 years for unauthorised import or export of a high-risk drug. Article 9 raises the special limits by one third where the act finances drug consumption, and article 13(2) permits up to 5 further years in the specified education-related circumstance. Those provisions are stated here so the scale is visible, not because they apply to CBD. If a listed constituent is proved in a given material, that constituent is assessed on its own and carries its own exposure.
If prescribed / medical
There is no controlled drug prescription question for CBD in Romania, because the controlled list does not carry it. Whether CBD is available on prescription, over the counter or on general sale is a question for the Romania medicines and pharmacy regime, which this row did not audit. the Romanian National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices is the body that answers it. Treat the supply route as unread rather than as open.
Documentation
Carry CBD as the Romania medicines regime allows and do not read this row as a carriage permission, because a substance that is off the controlled list is not thereby free to cross a border. That is the carriage answer for CBD and it is deliberately narrow. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for CBD appears in what was read here. Provenance follows. The instrument searched was Legea 143/2000, whose Tables I to IV article 1(a) makes integral to the Act itself, on Portal Legislativ, the official legislation portal of the Ministry of Justice, and the ANMDMR consolidated text on 18 September 2026 and no entry for CBD was found.
Slovakia
Legal status
CBD is not listed in the Slovak narcotic and psychotropic schedule. Act No. 139/1998 carries one closed operative schedule at Annex 1, divided into Groups I, II and III, and no matching listed substance was found for CBD. The source records the aliases searched: kanabidiol; cannabidiol; CBD, run through every group of Annex 1, its extension clauses and its final line. A no-hit on an English spelling would not have been enough, because the schedule uses Slovak names, chemical formulas, brand-neutral synonyms, plant entries and member-by-member lists. Two statutes divide the work. Act No. 139/1998 decides whether a substance is in the three-group list at Annex 1, and section 3(1) classifies narcotic and psychotropic substances by their effects on health into those three groups. The Criminal Code, No. 300/2005, decides the amount category through sections 135c to 135f and supplies the offences at sections 171 to 173. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026. The consolidation of Act No. 139/1998 read was effective 1 January 2026 and incorporates amendment No. 293/2025; the Criminal Code consolidation read was effective 18 August 2026 and incorporates amendments through No. 168/2026. An absence is a statement about a list at a moment, and this one is stated as at that consolidation and no later.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Slovakia has no death penalty. It does have life imprisonment for a drug offence, under Criminal Code section 173(5), and that is the one point on which this row has to be read carefully: the life ceiling is not assigned to CBD, because sections 171 to 173 attach to the substances in Act No. 139/1998 Annex 1 and CBD is not one of them. No controlled-substance threshold is given for it either, for the same reason. If a listed constituent is proved in a given material, that constituent is assessed separately and carries its own exposure. That is not a statement that CBD is unregulated in Slovakia; it is a statement that the drug offence scale is not the instrument that reaches it, and this row did not audit whichever regime does.
If prescribed / medical
There is no controlled drug prescription question for CBD in Slovakia, because Annex 1 to Act No. 139/1998 does not carry it. Whether CBD is available on prescription, over the counter or on general sale is a question for the Slovak medicines and pharmacy regime, which this row did not audit; the source states in terms that it is a schedule and penalty verification and not advice about licensing, medicines, precursors, food or tobacco. The State Institute for Drug Control is the body that answers it. Treat the supply route for CBD as unread rather than as open.
Documentation
Carry CBD as the Slovak medicines and pharmacy regime allows and do not read this row as a carriage permission, because a substance that is off the schedule is not thereby free to cross a border. That is the carriage answer for CBD and it is deliberately narrow. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for CBD appears in what was read here. Provenance follows. Act No. 139/1998 and Criminal Code No. 300/2005 were read on Slov-Lex, the official legal information portal, on 18 September 2026, and every annex was carried to its end: Act 139 Annex 1 ends with zolpidem followed by the salts clause, and Criminal Code Annex 1 ends with the lysergide row.
Trinidad and Tobago
Legal status
Not confirmed. Searches for cannabidiol and cbd found no entry; the only cbd hit is the letters of «2C-B» run into the next line, not a word. The printed cannabis entries were read and none names cannabidiol. First Schedule item 3, «3. Cannabis, Cannabis sativa, Cannabis sativa L, their preparations,», gives as examples «(1) Cannabis resin», «(2) Cannabis (marihuana)» and «(3) Cannabinol». The Second Schedule THC row lists «Tetrahydrocannabinols, the» following isomers, including «∆8, ∆9, ∆10, ∆9(11)», and Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 adds «HEXAHYDROCANNABINOL». That cannabidiol is a different compound from cannabinol, the tetrahydrocannabinols and hexahydrocannabinol is a chemical fact brought from outside the text. Act No. 24 of 2019 defines cannabis as «the plant of the genus» Cannabis, including «(c) any compound, salt, mixture,» «extraction, derivative, product,» «synthetic or other preparation of» the plant; whether a cannabidiol product made from the plant counts as cannabis under that definition, and so falls within the First Schedule cannabis entry, is not settled by the text, and this cell does not decide it. The substance is not listed by name in any Schedule read, as at 3 October 2026, the date the instruments were read.
Consequences if caught
Not confirmed. No penalty is stated for cannabidiol. Were a plant derived cannabidiol product held to be cannabis under the Act No. 24 of 2019 definition, the section 5(2)(f) allowance and the section 5(2A) and (2B) tiers inserted by that Act would be the provisions to read; that question is left open here, and no figure is attached.
If prescribed / medical
Not confirmed. No instrument read names a cannabidiol medicine or a route for importing one, and without a placement section 5(2) does not arise.
Documentation
Not confirmed. Whether a given cannabidiol product also contains an isomer listed in the THC row is a matter for analysis. If it does, the text answers what follows: section 3 makes a «thing that contains such a substance» a dangerous drug, and the THC row lists «Tetrahydrocannabinols, the» following isomers, including «∆8, ∆9, ∆10, ∆9(11)». Such a product is reached through that listed constituent, not through cannabidiol, and this cell places cannabidiol nowhere. No document for cannabidiol is described in the instruments read.
Not confirmed. Searched: Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act · Legal Notice No. 343 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment · Updated October 3, 2026
Ukraine
Legal status
Not confirmed. Record UKR-28 reports that Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, was searched for this cannabinoid under its abbreviation and under its full name with no printed heading matched, and that the near entry it inspected and rejected was the plant heading «Канабіс, рослина» at CAS 8063-14-7. That rejection is correct as far as it goes, because an isolated constituent is not the plant. What it leaves untouched is whether Ukrainian law treats an extract of a listed plant as reached by the plant heading, and whether the separate isolated cannabinoid heading at CAS 5957-75-5 carries any limb about other cannabinoids. Neither question was read. The placement is open, and it is open on the extract question rather than on the name. The extract question is not the only gap. The terms logged are the abbreviation and "kanabidiol", a South Slavic transliteration, both Latin, run against an annex this source records as Cyrillic, so the search could not have matched a Cyrillic heading for this cannabinoid either. The absence is unmeasured and the extract point remains unread.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Ukraine has no death penalty in any article. The trade article the source names is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, twelve years of imprisonment at the ceiling of its third part, no life sentence provided. Record UKR-28 matched no heading, so наказ МОЗ № 188 has no band to key to this cannabinoid. The exposure that actually bites on a traveller is different: a product sold as this cannabinoid commonly assays with a residual quantity of the compound printed at CAS 5957-75-5, and that compound does carry a heading and a band. A cell that told a traveller this row is clear would be hiding that. No separate possession article is named. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Ukraine entry rather than re-derived from the Code in this pass, the published penalties are these. Personal use of a small amount is administrative under article 44 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, a fine of 25 to 50 tax free minimum incomes, 20 to 60 hours of community service, or administrative arrest of up to 15 days. Above small, personal use under article 309 is criminal, a fine, correctional labour of up to two years, or restriction of liberty of up to five years, rising to up to three years where aggravated or large and up to eight years where a minor is involved. Trafficking or sale under article 307 draws four to twelve years with property forfeiture. Smuggling under article 305 draws five to eight years, and up to eight to ten years aggravated. The published entry records the small, large and especially large quantity thresholds as very low, and that trace amounts have triggered article 309. Drug use itself, other than in public, is not criminal there. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. Whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established, so they are recorded as Ukraine's published drug penalties and not as this row's exposure.
Bahrain
Legal status
Controlled. CBD is reached, where it is obtained from the plant, through the extracts and tinctures of cannabis limb of the Group I Schedule 1 cannabis entry, cannabidiol being a constituent of the plant and not a tetrahydrocannabinol, so the six-isomer list in Group II Schedule 1 does not touch it and a synthetic article would have to be tested against the 2016 class entry instead. The entry relied on reads «Cannabis and cannabis resin and extracts and tinctures of cannabis» in Group I Schedule 1 of the annex, in Bahrain's Law 15 of 2007. Under its own name it is not named in any of the twelve tables, so the answer here rests on that other entry rather than on a listing of its own.
Consequences if caught
Article 30(a) of Law 15 of 2007 punishes trafficking conduct in the narcotic drugs of Group I Schedules 1, 2, 3 and 4, the psychotropic substances of Group II Schedule 1 and the plants of Group I Schedule 5 by death or life imprisonment. The same paragraph adds a fine of not less than 5,000 and not more than 50,000 Bahraini dinars. Article 30(b) makes the penalty death in five listed cases: a repeat offence, commission by a public official charged with fighting these crimes or with supervising or inspecting the substances, use of a person under twenty one, membership of or work for an international smuggling gang, and exploitation of authority or of a legal immunity. Article 31(a) sets not less than ten years for paid transport, for diverting a licensed supply, for supplying or facilitating use and for running a place for use, with a fine of not less than 3,000 and not more than 30,000 dinars, and Article 31(b) raises that to life imprisonment in the same five cases. Article 32 covers the same schedules where the purpose is personal use, with imprisonment and a fine of not more than 3,000 dinars, and sets not more than seven years with a fine of not more than 5,000 dinars where the purpose is neither trafficking nor personal use. Article 57 forbids a court applying Article 72 of the Penal Code to go below ten years on Article 30 or on Article 31(b). The Law states no quantity threshold anywhere, and no table states one for CBD. Article 38 lets the court order treatment instead of punishment under Article 32 first paragraph for a proved addict, and Article 42 bars prosecution of a user who presents for treatment before being caught or charged. Article 49 of the Penal Code, Decree-Law No. 15 of 1976, attaches civil deprivation of 3 to 15 years to a felony, alongside death and imprisonment, its own wording being more than three years and not more than fifteen. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Article 51 makes confiscation of the substance, the equipment and any vehicle prepared for the purpose mandatory in every case. Article 54 lets the court add permanent deportation of a foreign national to the sentence. Bahraini courts have passed drug death sentences, including in a 2019 smuggling case, and executions for drug offences have not been carried out, sentences being commonly commuted; that last point is carried forward from the cell this replaces and was not re-derived here.
Brunei
Legal status
Not a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 27 of the Laws of Brunei Darussalam, Revised Edition 2013 (B.L.R.O. 2/2013), from both parts of its Third Schedule, and from all four substantive schedules to the Regulations. Searched as "Cannabidiol" and "Cannabinol", and cannabidiol is not cannabinol and is neither a tetrahydro derivative nor a 3-alkyl homologue of it.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. CBD carries no penalty under the Misuse of Drugs Act in Brunei, because no offence in the Act reaches it. The Part II offences in sections 3, 3A, 4, 5 and 6 are each framed as an offence in relation to a controlled drug, and section 2 confines that to "any substance or product which is for the time being specified in Part I, II or III of the First Schedule to this Act or anything that contains any such substance or product". What decides it for CBD is that cannabidiol is not cannabinol and is neither a tetrahydro derivative nor a 3-alkyl homologue of it. Searching the four parts of the First Schedule, both parts of the Third Schedule and the four substantive schedules to the Regulations under "Cannabidiol" and "Cannabinol" returned nothing. Death is not available, and neither is any penalty under this Act. The substance is not a controlled drug, so no offence in Part II is engaged by it and no column of the Second Schedule is reached. The specified drug column, the only one in which death appears, names only opium, morphine, diamorphine, cocaine, cannabis, cannabis resin, methylamphetamine and MDMA. Where death does appear it is mandatory. Section 29(2) provides that the columns "show respectively the punishments to be imposed on a person convicted of the offence", and each death row gives death alone with no maximum, no minimum and no alternative. No provision of the Act confers a sentencing discretion on a capital conviction. The Act creates no sentence of life imprisonment. The phrase appears nowhere in its text, and the longest determinate term it reaches is 30 years.
If prescribed / medical
Neither the Misuse of Drugs Act nor its Regulations governs the prescribing or supply of CBD. Neither instrument names it, and cannabidiol is not cannabinol and is neither a tetrahydro derivative nor a 3-alkyl homologue of it. No register, requisition or prescription requirement in the Regulations attaches to it, since every one of those is keyed to a scheduled controlled drug. What was not checked for this cell is Brunei's medicines and poisons regime, which is a separate body of law that was not fetched. Absence from the Misuse of Drugs Act is not a statement that a substance is freely available.
Documentation
No document is required for CBD under the Misuse of Drugs Act, because the Act does not reach it. Cannabidiol is not cannabinol and is neither a tetrahydro derivative nor a 3-alkyl homologue of it. That is a statement about one Act and no wider. A traveller carrying a prescribed medicine should still carry the prescription and keep the product in its labelled dispensed container. What was not checked for this cell is Brunei's medicines and poisons regime, which is a separate body of law that was not fetched. Absence from the Misuse of Drugs Act is not a statement that a substance is freely available.
Iran
Legal status
Not confirmed. Entry 27 of Schedule 1 of the four psychotropic schedules adopted 1384/09/13 gives two different answers for this row in its own two columns. The Persian reads tetrahydrocannabinol and all its isomers. The roman text printed beside it in the same row reads tetrahydrocannabinol and its stereochemical variants. Cannabidiol has the same molecular formula as delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol and is therefore a constitutional isomer of it, but it is not a stereochemical variant of it. So the Persian column reaches this row and the roman column does not, and nothing recovered resolves which governs.
Consequences if caught
Which regime applies cannot be stated while that entry is read two ways. If the Persian column governs, the Psychotropics Law applies and Article 3 gives three to fifteen years for sale, and two to ten years for possession or transport at 10 grams or less. If the roman column governs, no entry reaches this row at all. Neither reading puts cannabidiol inside the Anti-Narcotics Law by name. A separate point cuts across both: a cannabidiol product that carries any tetrahydrocannabinol is reached through that content whichever way the isomer question goes, and Iran sets no published threshold for trace content that this cell could find. Iran keeps the death penalty for drug offences and uses it. Article 45, added by the Act of 1396/07/12, which is 4 October 2017, and approved by the Guardian Council on 1396/07/26, which is 18 October 2017, reaches only offences that already carry death or life imprisonment under this Law, and its paragraph (t) sets the quantity limb: «کلیه جرائم موضوع ماده (4) این قانون مشروط بر اینکه بیش از پنجاه کیلوگرم باشد و مواد موضوع ماده (8) این قانون مشروط بر اینکه بیش از دو کیلوگرم باشد و در خصوص سایر جرائم موضوع ماده (8) در صورتیکه بیش از سه کیلوگرم باشد». The quantities are more than 50 kilograms for Article 4 offences, more than 2 kilograms for the Article 8 supply limb, and more than 3 kilograms for the other Article 8 offences of buying, keeping, concealing or transporting, which is how the Head of the Judiciary circular of 1396/10/16, meaning 6 January 2018, reads that paragraph at its own paragraph 7. Below those quantities the older capital wording does not lapse by itself, because Article 45 converts a former death case to grade one imprisonment of up to thirty years and a former life case to grade two imprisonment, with confiscation of drug proceeds in both. The money runs beside that conversion: a grade one fine up to twice its minimum for the former death case and a grade two fine for the former life case. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of Article 45 carry no quantity floor at all, and reach an offender who drew or carried a weapon, a ringleader, a financial backer or investor, an offender who used a person under eighteen or a person lacking capacity, and an offender with a final prior conviction under this Law for death, life or more than fifteen years. Advisory opinion 7/99/136 applies paragraph (c) to the transport of 80 grams of heroin and to the possession of 200 kilograms of opium, which is why a weight under two kilograms is not a safe limit. At least 503 drug related executions were recorded in 2024 and 471 in 2023, roughly half of all executions and carried out by hanging, which the US Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor reports and Harm Reduction International and Amnesty International corroborate. A second figure of 485 for 2024 also sits in this project’s earlier Iran records, unattributed there, and the two were not reconciled, so both are printed rather than one being chosen. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
Laos
Legal status
CBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as cannabis, cannabis is a scheduled narcotic on the Ministry of Public Health narcotic list and under the Law on Narcotics (Law No. 22/NA), with no CBD or THC-threshold exemption; there is no legal consumer CBD.
Consequences if caught
Possession, production or trade is a drug offence with penalties escalating by quantity into 5-20 years' imprisonment and heavy fines.
If prescribed / medical
There is no established CBD/Epidiolex prescription scheme.
Documentation
No documentation legalises CBD, controlled as cannabis, with no prescription route.
Not confirmed for CBD in Myanmar, and the reason is a boundary the sources read here could not settle. Notification 24/2025 names cannabis and it names cannabis resin, extracts and tinctures; Notification 25/2025 names THC. Neither names cannabidiol, and neither states an express exclusion for it. Because the extract entries are drawn broadly, a product's source and composition could decide the answer, and the texts read here do not resolve where that line falls.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: not established. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass: the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law 1993 was read at myanmar-law-library.org on 21 September 2026. Section 20 takes «a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance» as its object, and section 2 defines both by delegation: a narcotic drug is the poppy, coca or cannabis plant and what is derived or extracted from it, or «drugs which the Ministry of Health has, by notification declared to be a narcotic drug», and a psychotropic substance is «drugs which the Ministry of Health has, by notification declared» to be one. This substance is not one of the three named plants or an extract of one, so whether section 20 reaches it turns entirely on a Ministry of Health notification, and that notification was not reached in this pass, so no capital provision is asserted for this row and none is ruled out. Because the placement is unresolved, the band cannot be stated for CBD without guessing at it. What is fixed is the ladder the Law would apply once placement is settled: section 16(c) carries 5 to 10 years, section 19 carries 10 years to an unlimited period where the purpose was sale, and section 20 carries 15 years to an unlimited period or death for production, distribution, sale, import and export. It is not assigned here, and the reason is the unresolved identity rather than an absence of risk. If a given product is in law a controlled cannabis extract, then cannabis sits at section 26(f) with a one hundred gramme deemed sale figure and section 20 is available on production, distribution, sale, import and export. If it is not, none of that applies. This cell does not assert which side of that line pure cannabidiol falls. What can be said about section 20 without resolving the placement is what the section itself says: it reaches production, distribution, sale, import and export, it states no weight floor at all, it runs from a minimum of 15 years to a maximum of an unlimited period or with death, and death is not mandatory on its own wording, because the section holds out imprisonment as the alternative and joins the two with the words or with death. What this finding is, and what it is not. No entry for CBD was established under this Act, and that is not a statement that CBD is lawful under Myanmar's other laws. Medicines, imports, customs, product and excise law were not audited here and any of them may reach it. What this cell states is the statute as written. It is not a description of enforcement. Policing of these provisions since February 2021 is not what the text describes, and substantial areas of the country sit outside central government control, so the law on the page and the treatment a person actually meets are two different questions.
Oman
Legal status
Not confirmed. The dossier records «سجل البحث الخاص بـ cbd: بُحث الاسم والمرادفات والاسم الكيميائي حتى آخر صفحة من الملحق؛ لم يوجد قيد اسمي مطابق، ولم يمكن إغلاق مدى عبارات مستخلصات القنب أو متماكبات THC على هذه المادة.», that is, no exact entry for CBD in the annex to Royal Decree 67/2026, and that the cannabis extract or tetrahydrocannabinol isomer wording of the annex could not be closed on CBD. Whether that wording reaches CBD is not settled by the source read.
Consequences if caught
Not established. The status of CBD in Oman was not established on this record, so no offence, penalty band, quantity threshold or capital position is stated for it here. A penalty attaches through a placement, and this row does not prove one. That is not a finding that CBD is lawful in Oman, and the absence of a penalty in this cell is not a statement that there is none.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is stated for CBD in Oman. The status was not established on this record, so there is no placement for a medical route, an import permit or a personal medicine allowance to attach to, and none is asserted here.
Documentation
No documentation requirement is stated for CBD in Oman, because the status it would depend on was not established on this record. Nothing in this cell is advice on carrying, declaring or importing it. Where the rule comes from. The law changed in September 2026. Royal Decree 67/2026 was issued on 3 September 2026. Its Article III repeals the Law on Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 17/99, and its Article IV brings the decree, and with it the new law, into force on the day after its publication in the Official Gazette. Decree.om and the dossier this cell was authored from both record that publication as issue 1664 of 6 September 2026, so the law took effect on 7 September 2026. Article II keeps existing regulations and decisions running until replacements issue, «وإلى أن تصدر يستمر العمل باللوائح والقرارات القائمة، بما لا يتعارض مع أحكامه», so far as they do not conflict with its provisions. The decree's own articles were read in the text the Oman News Agency published on 3 September 2026. The attached law and its annex were read only through the verbatim quotations in the dossier dated 20 September 2026, because on 3 October 2026 qanoon.om served a Cloudflare challenge in place of the text, the web archive held no copy, and decree.om carried the decree's Articles I to IV and its Gazette reference but not the attached law, which it said would be uploaded shortly. Article 5 of the law, as that dossier quotes it, provides «يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل المجموعات الملحقة بهذا القانون بالحذف أو الإضافة أو تغيير النسب أو الكميات كلما اقتضت الضرورة ذلك», the Minister may by decision amend the annexed groups by deletion, by addition or by changing percentages or quantities whenever necessary. It takes the place of article 4 of the 1999 law, «يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل المجموعات الملحقة بهذا القانون بالحذف أو الإضافة أو تغيير النسب كلما اقتضت الظروف ذلك», which gave the same power without the word for quantities and with «الظروف», circumstances, where the 2026 text has «الضرورة», necessity. So a reading of the annex is a reading as of a date, and this one runs to 20 September 2026. Under the 1999 law this page recorded: in no table read. The 1999 placements in this cell are this page's earlier reading and are not printed in the quoted extract the dossier carries for this row.
Bulgaria
Legal status
Not listed. CBD is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Канабидиол», «CBD», «канабидиол», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. Постановление № 345 of 2024 created a row for tetrahydrocannabidiol, coded H4-CBD, which is a hydrogenated compound and not cannabidiol. Cannabidiol itself has no row in any of the three lists. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated as those lists stand after Постановление № 49 of 8 May 2025, which is the last amendment to the наредба recorded by the Council of Ministers legal information system.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Bulgaria is in the European Union and the death penalty was abolished in 1998, so no Bulgarian drug provision carries one. The figures in the rest of this paragraph are carried forward from the live Bulgaria cell and were not re-derived in this pass. Possession is not subject to a formal personal-use threshold. Penal Code article 354a(5) lets a judge impose a fine up to about 1,000 leva (about €511) for insignificant quantities, but it remains a criminal conviction. Standard possession of high-risk drugs draws 1 to 6 years. A 2,000 to 10,000 leva fine runs alongside that band. Possession of moderate-risk drugs draws up to 5 years. Trafficking under article 354a draws 2 to 8 years for high-risk drugs and 1 to 6 years for moderate-risk drugs. It rises to up to 15 years for aggravated or particularly large amounts. Cultivation of opium poppy, coca or cannabis is prohibited by article 354c. The high-risk and moderate-risk split those bands run on is drawn by Penal Code articles 354a, 354b and 354c together with the Law on Control of Narcotic Substances and Precursors, the ЗКНВП. Those are Penal Code provisions rather than наредба provisions, and this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical
Чл. 58, ал. 1 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите lets a person in transit or temporarily in the country hold medicinal products containing narcotic substances «от списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, т. 2 и 3» only for treatment and in quantities no greater than 30 days of treatment, and чл. 58, ал. 2 requires a foreign national to hold a document issued by the competent authorities of the country where the treatment was prescribed. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for CBD. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lithuania
Legal status
CBD is not listed in the Lithuanian narcotic and psychotropic lists. Health Minister Order No. 5 is the list that Criminal Code article 269(1) adopts as the Code's drug definition, and no entry for CBD was found in it. The source records the Lithuanian language search run for this row and the terms used: kanabidiolis; cannabidiol; CBD. Both Order No. 5 and Order V-239 were searched, and all four schedules of the order were covered. The search was run in Lithuanian rather than in English, which matters because the order is printed in Lithuanian and an English search returns a false absence. The chain has four links and each one matters. The Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Control Law, at article 4, delegates classification to the Ministry of Health. Health Minister Order No. 5 of 6 January 2000 is the resulting list and carries Schedules I to IV. Criminal Code article 269(1) makes those ministerial lists the Criminal Code's own drug definition. Criminal Code article 269(2) then sends the quantity question to ministerial recommendations, and Health Minister Order V-239 of 23 April 2003 supplies the figures. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026. The current consolidation of Order No. 5 begins on 18 June 2025 and the current consolidation of Order V-239 begins on the same day; the Control Law edition read includes the changes effective 1 November 2025 and the Criminal Code edition read was effective 3 July 2026. An absence is a statement about a list at a moment, and this one is stated as at that consolidation and no later.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Lithuania has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence, and in any event none of the drug penalties reach CBD, because articles 259 and 260 attach to the substances in Order No. 5 and CBD is not one of them. The 15 year ceiling under Criminal Code article 260(3) is therefore not assigned on this record, and Order V-239 prints no small, large or very large amount for CBD. If a controlled constituent is proved in a given material, that constituent's own table row governs and this row does not.
If prescribed / medical
There is no controlled substance prescription question for CBD in Lithuania, because Order No. 5 does not carry it and the Control Law's licensing machinery follows that order. Whether CBD is available on prescription, over the counter or on general sale is a question for the Lithuanian medicines regime, which this row did not audit. The State Medicines Control Agency of Lithuania is the body that answers it. Treat the supply route for CBD as unread rather than as open.
Documentation
Carry CBD as the Lithuanian medicines regime allows and do not read this row as a carriage permission, because a substance that is off the controlled lists is not thereby free to cross a border. That is the carriage answer for CBD and it is deliberately narrow. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for CBD appears in what was read here. Provenance follows. Order No. 5 and Order V-239 were searched in Lithuanian on the official Register of Legal Acts on 18 September 2026 and no entry was found. The final rows of the quantity annex were read: Schedule IV ends at item 402, isopropyl nitrite, after the nitrous oxide, gamma-butyrolactone and other alkyl nitrite entries, so the search reached the end of the instrument rather than stopping at the older Schedule III drug list.
Estonia
Legal status
CBD is not listed in the Estonian narcotic and psychotropic schedule. No entry for CBD was located in Lists I to VI of Annex 1. Cannabidiol is not separately listed, and that is not the end of the question: a product can still be caught through tetrahydrocannabinol or another scheduled constituent it contains. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act prohibition therefore does not attach to CBD by name. This rests on the compiler's statement that no entry appears in Annex 1 to Minister of Social Affairs Regulation No 73, and the source records no search terms for this row, so the absence is weaker evidence than a recorded query would be. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026, the day the instruments were read, and the schedule review covers the amendment effective 31 December 2024. An absence is a statement about a list at a moment, and this one is stated as at that date and no later.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Estonia has no death penalty and none of the drug penalties reach CBD, because those penalties attach to the narcotic schedule and CBD is not on it. The Penal Code drug ceiling of life imprisonment under section 184(2) with a superscript one is therefore not assigned on this record, and neither is the large quantity test at section 3(1)(3) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. That is not a statement that CBD is unregulated. It is a statement that the narcotic offence scale is not the instrument that regulates it, and any penalty attaches under the regime that does.
If prescribed / medical
There is no narcotic prescription question for CBD in Estonia, because the narcotic schedule does not carry it. The governing regime is no regime named in what was read, which is a gap rather than a permission. Whether CBD is available on prescription, over the counter, or on general sale is a question for that regime, and this row did not audit it. The State Agency of Medicines is the body that answers it for a medicine. Treat the supply route for CBD as unread rather than as open.
Documentation
Carry CBD as the governing regime allows and do not rely on this row for a carriage permission, because a substance that is off the narcotic schedule is not thereby free to cross a border. That is the carriage answer for CBD and it is deliberately narrow. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for CBD appears in what was read here, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Provenance follows. Annex 1 to Minister of Social Affairs Regulation No 73 was read on 18 September 2026 on Riigi Teataja, the official state gazette, and the source states that no entry appears in Lists I to VI. It records no search terms for this row, which is a limit on how strong that absence can be taken to be.
Estonia, CBD, provenance carried from the source compilation, which read Riigi Teataja, the official state gazette of the Republic of Estonia · Updated September 20, 2026
Latvia
Legal status
CBD is excluded by name from the entry that would otherwise control it in Latvia, so it is not itself a controlled substance under that entry, and a product containing it can still be caught through another listed constituent. The controlling instrument is Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force and application of the Criminal Law, and section 3(2) of the Circulation Law points to it expressly, which is why the former Cabinet Regulation No. 847 is not the current list. Annex 2 addresses CBD by expressly excluding it. The entry reads «Kanabinols un no kanabinola un kanabidiola atvasināti savienojumi (izņemot kanabidiolu)», which is Cannabinol and compounds derived from cannabinol and cannabidiol (excluding cannabidiol), so the exclusion is written into the controlling entry itself rather than inferred from an absence. The entry sits at item 11(10) of Annex 2, in Schedule I, which covers prohibited especially dangerous narcotic and equivalent psychotropic substances and plants. Control extends to specified derivatives, isomers, structural analogues, active metabolites, salts, medicines, plant preparations and mixtures under Circulation Law sections 3(3)(5), 3(3)(6) and 3(4) read with Annex 2 paragraphs 2 and 3. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026. Annex 2 identifies its current version as the 29 April 2021 text, as amended to 13 November 2025, with the cited 2025 change taking effect on 1 December 2025.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Latvia has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence, so neither is available here. The 15 year ceiling under subsection (3) of Criminal Law section 253 with a superscript one is not assigned to CBD itself, because the controlling entry excludes it by name, and Annex 2 prints no small ceiling and no large floor for it. That ceiling becomes live only if the product in question contains another listed constituent, and then it attaches to that constituent rather than to CBD. The scale runs from an administrative penalty to fifteen years. Circulation Law section 48(1) makes unauthorised acquisition or possession in a small amount, or unauthorised use, punishable by a warning or 10 to 56 fine units, and section 48(3) requires a written warning about criminal liability if it happens again within a year. Criminal Law section 253(1) covers handling without intent to sell at up to 3 years, and section 253(2) reaches 3 to 10 years for a group or a large amount. The sale provision, numbered 253 with a superscript one, covers sale-purpose conduct and sale at 2 to 8 years in its subsection (1), reaches 3 to 10 years in its subsection (2), and reaches 5 to 15 years in its subsection (3). The printed small ceiling and the printed large floor are not the same boundary. A quantity above the small ceiling but below the large floor is neither small nor large under those two columns, and falls into the ordinary band between them.
If prescribed / medical
There is no controlled drug prescription question for CBD itself, because the entry that would control it excludes it by name. That is a stronger statement than an absence: the instrument considered CBD and carved it out rather than passing over it. Whether a product containing CBD is available on prescription, over the counter or on general sale depends on what else that product contains and on the Latvian medicines and pharmacy regime, which this row did not audit. The State Agency of Medicines of Latvia is the body that answers it.
Slovenia
Legal status
Not confirmed, and the honest reason is that the annex carries no entry for the molecule, but a product containing it is treated according to its tetrahydrocannabinol content, its source and the product regime it falls under, none of which a substance name establishes on its own. The search behind this row covered the terms CBD and kanabidiol across all three groups of the annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih drog on 20 September 2026. This cell does not assert that the substance is outside Slovenian control and it does not assert that it is inside it.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Slovenia has abolished the death penalty and no Slovenian drug offence carries one, so this is a settled country level fact and not a reading of where any substance sits on the list. The exposure that does attach runs on three provisions. Personal use is handled under article 33 of the Production of and Trade in Illicit Drugs Act, the ZPPPD, which treats a smaller quantity held for one time personal use as a minor offence and carries a fine of roughly 42 to 209 euro, reduced or remitted where the person enters approved treatment. That article states no gram figure at all and it is a lighter route rather than a lawful possession allowance. Trafficking and manufacture fall under article 186 of the Criminal Code, the KZ-1, at one to ten years, rising to three to fifteen years on the aggravated limbs for organised conduct or conduct involving minors or vulnerable persons, and fifteen years under article 186, paragraphs 2 and 3, is the drug offence ceiling in Slovenian law. Facilitating consumption falls under article 187 at six months to twelve years. Whether those three provisions reach this substance at all is exactly what is unresolved here, so nothing on this row should be read as saying that they do or that they do not.
If prescribed / medical
The source read for this cell carries no prescription column, so no substance specific Slovenian medical route is stated here and none is assumed. The country level traveller rule is the one the source does state: Groups II and III of the annex can include medicines, and lawful travel still turns on the applicable prescription, the original dispensing packaging and any Schengen or Slovenian certificate that is required, with a foreign brand assessed through its proved active ingredients rather than its name. This row has no settled placement in the annex, so there is no group to attach and the medical route is deferred with the status itself.
Documentation
Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription, and carry a Schengen certificate where one is required for the substance and the length of stay. Confirm the requirement with the Slovenian embassy or consulate before travelling rather than at the border, and be ready to show the active ingredient, since a foreign brand name is assessed in Slovenia through its proved ingredients and not through the name on the box. For this row nothing was settled either way, so carry documentation on the assumption that the substance may be controlled, and treat the reading date of 20 September 2026 as the limit of what was checked. The annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih drog was read on 20 September 2026. The dossier read for this cell names no edition and no amendment date for that annex, so the horizon of this cell is the reading date and nothing later, and this does not rule out a later amendment. The list moves by amendment of the Uredba itself, because article 2 of the Uredba makes the annex a constituent part of the regulation, so the Criminal Code can stay untouched while the names on the list change.
Serbia
Legal status
The status of CBD in Serbia is open and this cell does not close it. The dossier records a complete list negative search across Lista 1 to 7 of the Spisak psihoaktivnih kontrolisanih supstanci, Službeni glasnik RS 12/2026, for «CBD; kanabidiol», with the final Lista 7 row and the salts clauses checked, and no exact printed row was accepted. No near comparison was accepted, neither an exact printed row nor a bounded class match. On this row the dossier's explanation column is row specific rather than templated and is the only per row material available, so it is used: it records that the compound is not named as a standalone entry, and that the legal result for a finished product turns on its source, on its tetrahydrocannabinol content and on which product regime it falls under, none of which a substance level slug settles. The outcome is recorded as not verified, and that is a statement about what the search found rather than a finding that Serbia leaves CBD uncontrolled. What remains open is whether a finished product crosses into the narcotics list through its tetrahydrocannabinol content rather than through this compound being named. The Serbian strings here are the dossier's record in Latin script and are not offered as the Cyrillic wording of the Službeni glasnik RS.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The ceiling this dossier records for Serbia is 20 years of imprisonment, by Criminal Code art. 246(5) read with the general maximum in art. 45(1). That figure is document level, the same sentence on all 88 Serbian rows, so it is given here as the dossier's recorded ceiling for the country and not as a measured statement about this substance, and no route in the instruments the dossier cites reaches death. The open scheduling question therefore does not put a capital answer in play. It puts everything else in play. If a Serbian court finds that the Spisak reaches this substance through a synonym, a plant or preparation limb, a salts clause or an analogue rule, arts 246 and 246a apply in full and divide conduct by manja količina and velika količina with no gram value printed for either. If it finds the Spisak does not reach it, those articles do not apply at all. The dossier settles neither branch, and a cell that picked one would be inventing the answer. The result for a finished product turns on its source, on its tetrahydrocannabinol content and on which product regime it falls under, so two bottles with the same name on the label can sit on opposite sides of the line. Treat CBD in Serbia as unresolved rather than as permitted. The practical consequence of an unresolved row is asymmetric: a reader who assumes it is controlled risks only inconvenience, and a reader who assumes it is not risks the full reach of arts 246 and 246a. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Serbia entry rather than re-derived from the Criminal Code in this pass, the published penalties are these. Drug use itself is not a criminal offence. Possession of a small amount for one's own use under Criminal Code article 246a paragraph 1 draws a fine or up to three years, and punishment may be remitted in minor cases. Small quantity is not numerically defined in law, so there is no fixed statutory quantity. Possession of a large quantity under article 246a paragraph 2 draws three to ten years. Production, circulation or sale under article 246 draws three to twelve years, five to fifteen years if committed by a group, and at least ten years if by an organised group. Cultivation of opium poppy or psychoactive hemp under article 246 draws six months to five years. Facilitating the taking of narcotics is an offence under article 247. The death penalty was abolished in 2002. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. Whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established, so they are recorded as Serbia's published drug penalties and not as this row's exposure.
Iraq
Legal status
Controlled in the cannabis forms Schedule One names, and as cannabidiol it is not named in any Iraqi schedule. Serial 22 covers cannabis, cannabis resin and the extracts and tinctures of cannabis, which reaches a cannabis-derived cannabidiol preparation. This placement is stated as those schedules stand after Statement 347 of 2025 of 17 November 2025, the Official Gazette having been checked to issue 4881 of 14 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Cannabidiol is not an isomer of tetrahydrocannabinol, so the Schedule One isomer clause does not reach it; the extracts and tinctures limb of serial 22 is what does the work, and it does so by the source material rather than by the molecule. Article 1, Tenth, defines a preparation as any solid or liquid mixture containing a narcotic, read in accordance with the annexed schedules, which is what carries a preparation containing a listed substance. A US State Department country summary has been cited on this row for personal-use exposure of roughly 3 to 15 years, a figure carried forward here and not re-derived, and it is wider than the Article 32 range. Under the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Law No. 50 of 2017, Article 27 punishes importing, bringing in or exporting, producing or manufacturing, and cultivating a producing plant, in each case with intent to trade, by death or life imprisonment. Trafficking possession of a Schedule One substance carries life or a term of imprisonment under Article 28, First. The fine on that offence runs from 10,000,000 to 30,000,000 Iraqi dinars. Possession, purchase, import, production or cultivation for personal use carries one to three years under Article 32. The fine on personal use runs from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 Iraqi dinars. Article 27 keys on the act rather than on a weight, and the law sets no gram threshold for it. These figures describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Iraq enforces the drug death penalty in practice: 144 drug-trafficking death sentences were issued in 2024, a figure carried forward here from the previous cell and not re-derived, on the authority of the US State Department and Iraqi court statements reported by 964media and The New Region.
If prescribed / medical
There is no medical cannabis programme in Iraq and no lawful prescription route for a cannabidiol medicine.
Documentation
A cannabidiol oil is a cannabis extract, and serial 22 names extracts of cannabis expressly. Running or preparing a place for drug use is Article 28, Fourth, of this law; it is not a Penal Code Article 288 offence. Allowing another person to use drugs on premises of yours carries six months to two years under Article 33, First, with a fine of 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 Iraqi dinars. A doctor who writes a prescription for other than medical treatment faces not less than three months detention or a fine of 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 Iraqi dinars and a one year ban on practice under Article 31. Article 1 defines the ten schedules as the lists adopted by the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 United Nations Convention against illicit traffic, each with its amendments, and Article 49, Second, is how Iraq amends them. Article 50 repeals Narcotics Law No. 68 of 1965, so the 1965 law is not the governing Act. Harm Reduction International reported 140 drug death sentences in Iraq between January and August 2024, a figure carried forward here and not re-derived. The US State Department has reported personal-use sentences of up to 15 years, which is longer than the Article 32 range and is carried forward here as that department reported it rather than re-derived from the statute. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with the Iraqi embassy before travel.
Jordan
Legal status
CBD is conditional under Law No. 23 of 2016, and the condition is printed rather than inferred. Cannabidiol appears at Schedule 3, «الجدول رقم (3): كانابيديول», within the cannabis-product rule, and the schedule expressly excludes a CBD-predominant cannabis oil, extract or preparation at not more than 0.3 per cent delta-9 THC. A product at or below that printed limit falls outside the entry; a product above it falls within the Schedule 3 cannabis-product wording and is treated accordingly. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law, so a CBD product above the limit is a narcotic drug for this Law and one below it is not. The whole question is therefore the THC content of the actual bottle, which a label may state inaccurately and which only analysis establishes. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text, and the figure itself is amendable: article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», expressly including the power to change the stated percentages.
Consequences if caught
A CBD product above the printed 0.3 per cent delta-9 THC limit is inside the Schedule 3 cannabis-product wording, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory on the article's own wording once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold. What decides this row is concentration rather than amount, and a small bottle of high-THC oil is on the wrong side of the line while a large bottle of compliant oil is not.
If prescribed / medical
CBD reaches consumers as a supplement, a cosmetic and an oil far more often than as a prescribed medicine, and none of those formats carries a prescription to produce. What matters under Law No. 23 of 2016 is the delta-9 THC content: at or below the printed 0.3 per cent limit the product is outside the Schedule 3 entry, and above it the product is a controlled cannabis product whatever it is sold as. A certificate of analysis from the manufacturer is the document that speaks to the question, and it is a claim rather than a finding until someone tests the bottle. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing, dispensing or retail conditions; Jordan's separate medicines, food and supplement regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Syria
Legal status
CBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as cannabis under Narcotic Drugs Legislative Decree No. 2 of 1993, cannabis cultivation, sale and possession are illegal for recreational and medical use with no CBD carve-out or THC threshold; industrial hemp is illegal.
Consequences if caught
Imprisonment applies, with large trafficking offences up to 20 years and death for aggravated manufacture/transport/sale of narcotics, so CBD-specific personal exposure is left to confirmation (post-2024 governance flux affects enforcement).
If prescribed / medical
There is none.
Documentation
No documentation legalises CBD, controlled as cannabis, with no prescription route.
CBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as cannabis under the Law on Control of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, all forms of cannabis are illegal, including medical use, with no hemp/CBD carve-out or THC threshold.
Consequences if caught
Fines and lengthy imprisonment apply with strict enforcement; Article 34 imposes death or 25 years for trafficking-intent possession/transport/sale, so a personal CBD item is charged as possession and CBD-specific capital exposure is left to confirmation.
If prescribed / medical
There is none.
Documentation
No documentation legalises CBD, controlled as cannabis, with no prescription route.
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Libya's authorities (Law No. 7 of 1990 as amended) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Libyan sources (Law No. 7 of 1990 on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, as amended), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Libya (Law No. 7 of 1990 on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, amended by Law No. 19 of 1994 and Law No. 19 of 1996), drugs are prohibited and aggravated trafficking is death-eligible. The specific death-penalty article number and any quantity thresholds are NOT individually confirmed in the cited sources (do not rely on a specific article or gram figure), verify; there is no fixed statutory quantity asserted here. [retained; enforcement opaque amid conflict] Libya is on the drug-death-penalty retentionist list and aggravated trafficking is death-eligible under Law No. 7 of 1990 (as amended), but the specific death-penalty article and any quantity thresholds are NOT individually confirmed in the cited sources, verify the specific article before relying on it. Enforcement is opaque amid the conflict; active executions are not asserted.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Libya (Law No. 7 of 1990 on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, amended by Law No. 19 of 1994 and Law No. 19 of 1996), drugs are prohibited and aggravated trafficking is death-eligible. The specific death-penalty article number and any quantity thresholds are NOT individually confirmed in the cited sources, verify the specific article before relying on it; there is no fixed statutory quantity asserted here, and there is no medical cannabis. [retained; enforcement opaque amid conflict] Libya is on the drug-death-penalty retentionist list and aggravated trafficking is death-eligible under Law No. 7 of 1990 (as amended), but the specific death-penalty article and any quantity thresholds are NOT individually confirmed in the cited sources, verify the specific article before relying on it. Enforcement is opaque amid the conflict; active executions are not asserted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law No. 7 of 1990 on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances (amended by Law No. 19 of 1994 and Law No. 19 of 1996) · corroborated by Human Rights Watch · security-legislation.ly · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Sudan
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Sudan's authorities (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Sudanese sources (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994, Arts 15/16/17), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Sudan (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994, Arts 15/16/17), the death penalty is conditional and aggravator-based, mandated for trafficking or producing by a recidivist, by an official entrusted with combating drug trafficking, or as part of an international criminal organization (Arts 15/17), and for providing drugs to students or in schools or assisting trafficking generally (Arts 16/17). It is NOT a flat general-trafficking death penalty. [retained for aggravated/recidivist trafficking; enforcement opaque] The death penalty is conditional and aggravator-based, mandated for trafficking or producing by a recidivist, by an official entrusted with combating drug trafficking, or as part of an international criminal organization (Arts 15/17), and for providing drugs to students or in schools or assisting trafficking generally (Arts 16/17). It is NOT a flat general-trafficking death penalty. Sudan is retentionist with a historical execution record (1994), but there is no reliable current execution stream amid the conflict; active executions are not asserted.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Sudan (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994, Arts 15/16/17), the death penalty is conditional and aggravator-based, mandated for trafficking or producing by a recidivist, by an official entrusted with combating drug trafficking, or as part of an international criminal organization (Arts 15/17), and for providing drugs to students or in schools or assisting trafficking generally (Arts 16/17). It is NOT a flat general-trafficking death penalty, and there is no medical cannabis. [retained for aggravated/recidivist trafficking; enforcement opaque] The death penalty is conditional and aggravator-based, mandated for trafficking or producing by a recidivist, by an official entrusted with combating drug trafficking, or as part of an international criminal organization (Arts 15/17), and for providing drugs to students or in schools or assisting trafficking generally (Arts 16/17). It is NOT a flat general-trafficking death penalty. Sudan is retentionist with a historical execution record (1994), but there is no reliable current execution stream amid the conflict; active executions are not asserted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994, Arts 15/16/17 · Updated July 14, 2026
Albania
Legal status
Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «CBD» and «kanabidiol», written in the dossier as the complete list negative search «CBD; kanabidiol», through every narcotic, psychotropic and plant table annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara and on to the final page of Ligji nr. 17/2026, and accepted no printed entry, no proved bounded class and no separate product regime. A completed search that accepts nothing records what was not found; it does not establish that cannabidiol sits outside the tables, and it is not a statement that cannabidiol is lawful to carry. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power. Treat the status as unsettled and settle it with the Albanian authorities before travelling.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Whether those articles reach this row is exactly what the search on «CBD; kanabidiol» did not settle, so the figures above are the exposure that would apply if a placement were established, and not a statement that it has been.
North Macedonia
Legal status
Not confirmed. The classification lists were searched for CBD; kanabidiol across the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables and through all 23 gazette pages including the signature page, and no printed entry was accepted. A delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol row is printed in the same lists at CAS 5957-75-5, and this source's own row for that isomer is at odds with itself: its search record says a tetrahydrocannabinol entry was accepted, while its quotation column prints a delta-8 specific name and a delta-8 specific registry number. Whether the lists carry a generic tetrahydrocannabinol limb or only that one isomer is the question that decides this row, and the source does not settle it. The search also ran on the Macedonian transliteration of cannabidiol and returned no printed row. The version read is the classification list published at Службен весник на РСМ бр. 104/2021, read as at 20 September 2026. The power that moves that list is член 21 став 2 of Закон за контрола на опојни дроги и психотропни супстанции, under which the minister of health adopts the lists, so the list can be replaced without the statute changing, and a later amendment is not ruled out by this reading.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. North Macedonia carries no death penalty, and the dossier read for this pass states that on all 88 of its rows. The drug offence itself is Article 215 of the Кривичен законик, which sits in the chapter on offences against people's health, chapter 21. On penalty: Article 215 carries three to ten years, and the lesser-quantity paragraph added in September 2009 carries six months to three years. Article 216 covers facilitating or enabling the use of drugs, and Article 217 covers causing severe bodily injury or health damage through the Article 215 and Article 216 offences. There is no separate personal-possession offence in the Code, and personal use is often charged under Article 215. On quantity, which is a different question from penalty and must not be read as the same one: small versus large quantity is not defined in the Code. Article 215(2) recognises a smaller quantity for the reduced offence but states no grams and creates no lawful allowance, so there is no statutory quantity band and no weight below which possession becomes lawful. The Public Prosecutor's internal guidelines set non-statutory cut-offs instead, and the reported working thresholds are around 2 g of cocaine, 2 g of heroin and 5 g of cannabis, above which intent to sell is presumed. That is reported prosecutorial practice and not statutory, and that hedge is part of the figure rather than a footnote to it. The penalty bands, the chapter 21 locator, Article 216 and Article 217, the absence of a separate possession offence and the reported thresholds are all carried forward from the published entry for this country and were not re-derived from the Кривичен законик or from any statute text in this pass. The dossier read for this pass records only a ten year ceiling at Article 215(1) and the bare existence of a reduced offence at Article 215(2), so the three year floor, the six months to three years band and the two neighbouring articles are the published entry's material and not the dossier's. Whether Article 215 engages at all for cannabidiol depends on a placement this reading did not settle, so the bands above are stated as the bands of the offence and not as figures attached to this substance. What would have to be true for the article to reach it is a generic tetrahydrocannabinol limb in the lists rather than the single delta-8 row the reading actually shows. Nothing here should be read as saying the material is lawful: the reading records a search result and not a legality.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Legal status
Not confirmed. The search made here used the identifier cbd and returned no entry and no near entry, and two routes are left open rather than one. The cannabis entry reaches the plant's extracts and tinctures in its own words, so whether an isolated cannabinoid taken from those is inside that reach is unanswered. The sharper route is the isomer limb: cannabidiol shares the molecular formula of tetrahydrocannabinol, and whether isomers belonging to that molecule extends to a differently named cannabinoid of the same formula is a question the Bosnian words do not settle either way. The reading that produced this was made against the list attached to the 2006 Law, as consolidated through Official Gazette 56/26 with the remifentanil move at 58/26, read as at 20 September 2026, and reading it on that date does not rule out a later amendment, so this is an unresolved search result and not a finding that the substance is outside the list.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Criminal law in Bosnia and Herzegovina runs at state, entity and Brčko District level at once, and the sources read do not establish which code governs a given case: they name the applicable entity or Brčko criminal code without choosing between them, and the only code actually read is the Federation one, where drug trafficking sits at article 238 and the fixed-term ceiling is article 43, «Kazna zatvora ne može biti kraća od trideset dana ni duža od dvadeset godina.», thirty days at the bottom and twenty years at the top. Where in the country the conduct happens is therefore the first thing that has to be settled, and this answer does not settle it. Nothing attaches to this compound by name, but the plant entry's own extracts limb sits close enough that the answer cannot be read off the absence. No quantity band applies on this record: a separate quantity instrument was searched alongside the list and returned no entry for this substance, so nothing in the national material read converts a weight into a tier. The penalty detail that follows is carried forward from this substance's own published entry on 2cb.com and was not re-derived from statute text in this pass, so it is reported as carried forward rather than asserted here: state-level Criminal Code article 195, illicit production and trafficking of narcotics, is charged for cross-entity or organized trafficking, with up to roughly 10 to 20 years for aggravated or organized forms and about 3 to 15 years base per secondary sources; possession for personal use is a misdemeanour under entity or district public-order law, for example the Brčko Law on Public Order article 31, a fine of about €250 to €750, with Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska equivalents, rather than the felony track, but each entity's criminal code can pursue felony charges for cultivation, sale, or possession beyond personal-use quantities; and the 2017 EUDA report notes the misdemeanour penalties do not vary by drug, recidivism or quantity. That published entry also states that the exact article and range a person faces depends on where in the country the offence occurs, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina versus Republika Srpska versus Brčko, that article 195 at state level is the anchor, and that entity-level article numbers not confirmed there are not pinned. Every figure in that carried-forward detail is a penalty range or a fine and not one of them is a quantity threshold: the published entry itself says there is no uniform statutory gram threshold distinguishing personal use from intent to sell and that it varies by entity, which is the same absence recorded above and not a contradiction of it.
Georgia
Legal status
CBD is not established as a scheduled substance in Georgia on this record, and it is not established as lawful either. The dossier's outcome is not verified and it holds an absence record against the annexes to Law No. 624: the search set was "CBD" and "kanabidiol", run across the list headings, the salts and isomers limbs, the named plants and the amendments, and it returned no entry. The comparison the dossier inspected and put back down was «კანაფი, Cannabis მცენარე». The non-intoxicating cannabinoid was searched under its code and its transliterated name, and the dossier rejects the plant entry, so an isolate is not carried by the entry for the plant it came from. The dossier cites the annexed set as Lists I to IV taken together and never records which of the four lists a row sits on, so the placement is established at the level of the annexes and not of a numbered list. An absence record is a statement about one text on one date, so it is version specific. The final consolidated text was read on the Legislative Herald of Georgia, which the dossier calls Matsne, on 20 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Georgia has abolished the death penalty and the dossier records no capital route for any substance on these lists. The ceiling is life imprisonment, under Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia for aggravated illegal circulation, and life is where the scale stops. That is the exposure a listed substance carries, and Article 260 operates through the annexed lists, so on this record there is no accepted entry for this substance for the offence to attach to. That is not a finding that the material is free of consequence. The plant entry reaches the plant, and on this record there is no entry that reaches the isolated cannabinoid, which leaves a product question that the dossier does not answer. The official quantity table assigns a small, a large and an especially large quantity by substance, and the dossier records that the table is applied through the matched entry without reproducing any of its figures, so no weight is stated in this cell and none should be inferred from one. With no entry established there is no band in that table to read. There is no general lawful personal use allowance, and the absence of a small quantity figure for a substance is not permission to hold it.
If prescribed / medical
The prescription position is deferred here rather than stated. No Georgian rule on a traveller carrying a prescribed supply has been established for this substance, so whether a foreign prescription is recognised has to be settled with the Georgian authorities before travel. There is also no placement here to attach a rule to, because this row is an absence record that establishes no entry. No medicinal preparation of it is recorded in the dossier, and no wellness or supplement route appears either.
Documentation
The dossier records no documentary requirement for Georgia and carries no column for one, so nothing is prescribed in this cell. What the row fixes instead is an absence: the search set "CBD" and "kanabidiol" and the date the text was read, which together are the only part of this row worth quoting. For a traveller the live risk is a product that is an isolate on the label and plant material in the bottle, and only an analysis separates the two rows. The record and its outcome were read on 20 September 2026 and this cell is dated 21 September 2026.
Armenia
Legal status
Not confirmed for Armenia, and this cell states the search rather than an answer. Record ARM-28 is a version specific absence record. The annex to Government Decision N 1129-Ն of 21 August 2003, at controlled lists 1 to 4, was read in the version below, no printed line naming cannabidiol was accepted, and no bounded class clause was shown to reach it either. The near entry inspected was «Կանեփ, Cannabis բույս», and it was set aside because it does not itself name this substance. The version read was the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026. The limit of this record has to be on the face of it. The terms this row was searched under were «CBD» and «kanabidiol», all of them Latin script. Not one of the 186 search terms logged across the eighty eight rows of this dossier carries a single Armenian letter, while 39 of the 41 entries the same dossier accepts elsewhere are printed in Armenian script. A Latin search of an Armenian list returns nothing whether or not the substance is on it. So this record states what the logged search could reach, and it does not establish that the annex is silent about anything searched for that way. A search that did not settle the question is not a finding that the substance is uncontrolled, and it is not a finding that it is controlled. The search set recorded was the two letter code and a transliteration of the chemical name, both in Latin script. The near entry inspected was the cannabis plant line, set aside because a plant entry does not name a single cannabinoid. The all isomers clause the annex carries is a tetrahydrocannabinol clause, and this compound is not a tetrahydrocannabinol, so it is not reached by that route either on this record.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Armenia has abolished the death penalty and Article 393 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia provides no life sentence for a drug offence, so the real exposure is a term of years. That much is settled whatever this row's place in the annex turns out to be, because it is a property of the penalty regime and not of the substance. What is not settled is the exposure itself. No penalty can be assigned to cannabidiol while its place in the annex is open on the instruments this pass reached. The 12 year ceiling under Article 393(3) is Armenia's general drug ceiling and not a figure attached to this row. A plant line and an isomer clause both exist in the annex and neither is shown to reach this molecule, so no exposure can be assigned.
If prescribed / medical
Armenia states no lawful personal use allowance for a scheduled substance, and Article 393(4) to (6) measures its significant, large and especially large bands from the minimum small amount figure the Government sets, which is a criminal threshold and never a traveller quota. A scheduled medicine must in addition satisfy the law on medicines, «Դեղերի մասին» Հայաստանի Հանրապետության օրենք, together with the prescription, packaging, import and customs rules that law carries. That is the country rule, and the placement it attaches to for cannabidiol is an unresolved annex position, so the country rule attaches without an entry to attach it to, and the medicines law question cannot be reached until the annex question is. The dossier read for Armenia states no separate traveller allowance, no personal import quota and no per substance medical route, so none is stated here and anything beyond the country rule is left to the Armenian Ministry of Health. The enquiry should ask about an isolated cannabinoid rather than about hemp, because the annex line is a plant line and the isomer clause is about a different cannabinoid.
Montenegro
Legal status
Not confirmed. What was not established is whether this substance has any placement at all in the Montenegrin list: the Pravilnik o utvrđivanju spiska droga, psihotropnih supstanci i bilja koje se može koristiti za proizvodnju droga, 56/2012 as amended by 54/2015, was searched for «CBD; kanabidiol» across the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables, the terminal check being the amended Prilog and its final plant table, and no exact printed entry was accepted, with no bounded class and no separate product regime settling it either. That is a completed negative search on a named version of the list and not a finding that the substance is lawful. The plant is printed in this schedule and this constituent returned no accepted entry under either the abbreviation or the Montenegrin name. The dossier records no strength limb, no hemp exemption and no extract rule, so whether a plant derived preparation is reached through the printed plant entry is exactly what is not established. The list is not the criminal code's to move. Član 4 of the Zakon o sprječavanju zloupotrebe droga gives it to the state administration body responsible for health and requires publication in the official gazette: «Spisak droga donosi organ državne uprave nadležan za poslove zdravlja... Spisak droga se objavljuje u Službenom listu Crne Gore.» The version read is the Prilog as those tables stand after the 54/2015 amendment, read on 20 September 2026, and because Član 4 leaves the list with the health administration this does not rule out a later amendment.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Montenegro's criminal code carries no death penalty and the dossier records none. The ceiling it records is fifteen years under Article 300 of the Krivični zakonik, the aggravated drug offence, read with the Code's imprisonment rules, and that is the only criminal article this reading names. That ceiling is Montenegro's drug offence maximum and it is not this row's exposure, because Article 300 depends on a placement in the list and the search for «CBD; kanabidiol» established none. Nothing here says the conduct is outside the article and nothing here says it is inside it. No numerical lawful personal use threshold was found in the controlling Act or in the list, so there is no stated weight below which the question changes, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not described here as a general lawful possession safe harbour. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Montenegro entry rather than re-derived from the Code in this pass: production, distribution or trafficking are reported at roughly two to fifteen years, the source given there being the United States State Department narcotics report, which also records that the individual paragraph ranges of Article 300(1) to (5) are not pinned in the sources it cites. The Article 300(6) offence of unlawfully making, acquiring, possessing, transporting or supplying equipment, material or substances knowing they are intended for narcotics production is reported at six months to five years. An addiction driven offender may receive mandatory treatment as a security measure to a maximum of three years, alongside or in place of imprisonment, and possession is reported as handled inside Article 300 with treatment diversion available. A foreigner faces expulsion for one to ten years or permanently. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty band and none of them is a quantity threshold, which is the separate point made above. These bands describe the Article 300 drug offence, and whether it reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established, so they are recorded as Montenegro's published drug penalties and not as this row's exposure. What this row rests on is a completed negative search for «CBD; kanabidiol» with no accepted entry.
Kazakhstan
Legal status
CBD is not controlled by Kazakhstan's Resolution No. 470, on the version of the lists read for this row. Government Resolution No. 470 of 3 July 2019 approves three documents in all, the Список наркотических средств, психотропных веществ и прекурсоров, подлежащих контролю в Республике Казахстан, the Сводная таблица of sizes, a substituent list and a short list of veterinary medicines, and all three were searched. Cannabidiol is named nowhere in the Resolution. Searches for каннабидиол and for the Latin abbreviation return nothing across all three approved lists. The cannabinoid entries that do exist are drawn narrowly: item 35 of Таблица I section В covers tetrahydrocannabinol and all its isomers and stereochemical variants, and hexahydrocannabinol needed a separate entry at item 64 because it is not an isomer. Cannabidiol is neither. The cannabis plant material entries are a different matter, because marijuana, the cannabis plant, resin and cannabis extract are all listed by name, so a cannabidiol product that is plant material or an extract of it can be reached through those entries rather than through a cannabidiol entry. Searches were anchored at the start of each entry name rather than run as free substring matches, because unanchored matching in this document produces false hits: the Russian for codeine matches acetyldihydrocodeine, the Russian for diazepam matches fludiazepam and the Russian for ephedrine matches cathine. The copy read carries the amendment of 24 February 2026 made by Government Resolution No. 111, and the Сводная таблица is wholly in that redaction, so every size quoted here is the 24 February 2026 text, and a later amendment adding this substance is expressly not ruled out. [Certain] that the substance is absent from all three lists as this version stands, the search having been re-run from the instrument in this pass.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Kazakhstan has abolished the death penalty. No capital punishment remains available anywhere in its Criminal Code, because the law of 29 December 2021 numbered 89-VII on abolition replaced the words carrying it in Article 11 with life imprisonment, and Article 46 now names life imprisonment as the heaviest penalty the Code holds. Because Resolution No. 470 does not reach CBD, it sets no size bands for it and no threshold can be quoted, so nothing in the criminal ladder below attaches to this substance on the strength of this instrument. Kazakhstan grades the offence by the size band. Criminal Code Article 296 part 2 meets ordinary possession without intent to supply with a fine of up to 160 monthly calculation indices, corrective labour, community work or arrest of up to 40 days, part 3 meets a крупный quantity with up to 200 indices or 50 days, and part 4 meets an особо крупный quantity with three to seven years of imprisonment. Public non-medical consumption is part 1. Supply is Article 297 at five to eight years with confiscation and up to fifteen to twenty years for its aggravated forms, and Article 297-1, inserted on 2 January 2025 by law No. 150-VIII, covers manufacture and processing for supply with life imprisonment available at part 4. Every one of those rungs is read off a size band in the Сводная таблица, and for an unlisted substance there is no band to read. Article 296 also carries a note releasing from liability under that article a person who voluntarily hands the substance over, seeks medical help or actively assists in uncovering a related offence. [Likely] The Criminal Code articles and their year ranges in this cell were read from secondary consolidations rather than from an official publisher in this pass. Two independent consolidations agree on them, and the Code's own article text was not reached: the state portal served only its contents list. The abolition of the death penalty, by contrast, was confirmed against the Code itself and is tagged [Certain] where it appears. [Likely] Carried from the entry published before this batch and not re-derived in this pass: the two middle rungs of that ladder are six to ten years for part 2 and seven to twelve years for part 3.
Cuba
Legal status
Prohibited in Cuba when it is cannabis plant material, and [Likely] prohibited at the border and in the post when it is an extract. Resolución 23/2020 of the Ministerio de Salud Pública, resuelvo primero, declares «para los viajeros, la paquetería y el tránsito de mercancías nacionales e internacionales, la prohibición de importar, tener, transportar y exportar con fines terapéuticos o recreativos la planta Cannabis (marihuana)», and the plant itself carries no qualifier, «aun cuando se porten certificados médicos que justifiquen su consumo». The same resuelvo reaches «flores, semillas, productos o sustancias, componentes derivados de estos que produzcan efectos similares a las drogas», and whether a non intoxicating cannabidiol extract is a derivative «que produzcan efectos similares a las drogas» the text does not say. Two further routes make the extract [Likely] inadmissible. First, the INCB Lista Amarilla, 64th edition, July 2025, places «RESINA DE CANNABIS y EXTRACTOS y TINTURAS DE CANNABIS» in Lista I of the 1961 Convention; a whole plant or full spectrum cannabidiol oil extracted from the plant is such an extract on its face, while an isolate or a synthetic cannabidiol is named nowhere in the List and whether it counts as an extract is not established. Resolución 104/2022 resuelvo decimoquinto prohibits «la modalidad de envíos para los estupefacientes de la Lista I», and no cannabis product is among the 1961 Lista I products its Anexo I lets a traveller bring. Second, the same resolution's recital describes the 2020 measure as «la prohibición de entrada al territorio nacional de los preparados farmacéuticos que contienen marihuana o sus derivados», which reaches a cannabidiol medicine entering Cuba; that is a recital, and it does not repeal Resolución 23/2020. Resuelvo segundo of Resolución 23/2020 separately bars goods «que incite, estimule o propague el uso de la planta Cannabis (marihuana)», «aunque estos no contengan en sí los principios activos de la droga o sustancia que represente o haga alusión, pero que la incitación, el estímulo o la propaganda en su conjunto se consideren nocivos para la salud humana». Inside Cuba, article 235.1(d) of the Código Penal punishes whoever, «sin estar autorizado», «a sabiendas, posea semillas o partes de dichas plantas», with no test of effect, so hemp flower sold for its cannabidiol is caught whatever its THC content. For an extract, the live Cuba rows for cannabinol, delta 8 THC, HHC and THC P read «o sus derivados» in article 236(b) as reaching any cannabis constituent, and on that reading cannabidiol is caught too; but article 236 opens «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», and whether a non intoxicating constituent is one no text read settles. The Code sets no THC threshold and distinguishes no cannabinoid from another, and cannabidiol is not one of the 26 entries of Resolución 25/2022. The Código Penal names only two drugs: across all 470,392 characters of the gazette text (pdftotext layout extraction, measured on 3 October 2026) cocaína appears once, at article 236(a), and Cannabis twice, at articles 235.1(d) and 236(b), and the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times. The lists sit with the Ministerio de Salud Pública: Resolución 25/2022 resuelvo segundo approves a «LISTA DE SUSTANCIAS CONSIDERADAS DE EFECTO SIMILAR A LAS DROGAS, ESTUPEFACIENTES Y PSICOTRÓPICAS SOMETIDAS A CONTROL NACIONAL» of 26 entries, and Resolución 104/2022 governs the medicines of the 1961 and 1971 Convention Lists a traveller may bring, List by List.
Guyana
Legal status
Not established on this record, and the search that returned nothing is the finding. The dossier records what it calls English language searches for «cannabidiol» and «cbd», together with spelling variants and the chemical name, against the First and Second Schedules to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, Cap. 10:10, and no current named entry and no closed group rule was proved anywhere in the complete instrument. No placement is asserted here in either direction. Cannabidiol is tested on its own name here and does not inherit the cannabis result. That matters, because the cannabis entry proved in this corpus prints the plant, the resin and the statutory tetrahydrocannabinol wording, and cannabidiol is none of the three. A search that returns nothing proves that nothing was found in what was read. It does not prove the substance is lawful in Guyana, and this cell does not say that it is. The search was recorded on 20 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Guyana's Cap. 10:10 carries no death penalty at any tier; section 5(1) sets the indictable trafficking ceiling at life imprisonment, so the worst outcome this Act reaches is a life sentence. That holds whether or not this substance turns out to be scheduled, which is why the heading can be stated while the placement cannot. No ceiling is assigned to this row, because controlled status was not settled from the primary instrument, so on this record no penalty article attaches at all. A product carrying tetrahydrocannabinol above whatever limit the statute sets would be reached through the proved cannabis entry instead, and the dossier records no such limit for Guyana. If a named entry or a printed group rule is later proved, section 5(1) is the ceiling that would apply.
If prescribed / medical
Deferred, and for two separate reasons. The dossier carries no Guyanese prescription rule, import permit, personal medicine allowance or Ministry authorisation route at all, and it also proves no schedule placement for this substance, so neither the traveller rule nor the placement it would attach to is available. Cannabidiol is a licensed anticonvulsant in some countries and a supplement in others, and the dossier distinguishes neither for Guyana. Settle it with the Guyanese authorities before travelling rather than from this cell.
Documentation
A certificate of analysis showing the tetrahydrocannabinol content is the document that matters here, not the cannabidiol content. Carry any medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, because an unproved placement is not a clearance and an officer's view of the material is what a traveller meets first. The search recorded for this row was read on 20 September 2026 and returned no named entry.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, Cap. 10:10, First and Second Schedules, searched for this row without a proved result · Updated September 21, 2026
Bahamas
Legal status
Not confirmed. Searched case insensitively across all three held instruments for cannabidiol and for CBD: zero hits in every one, including the 2024 draft Order. So it is not a named entry. It does not follow that it is outside Chapter 228, because section 2 defines «Indian hemp» to include «every compound, manufacture, salt derivative, mixture or preparation of such plant or resin», and section 6 applies Part II to Indian hemp. Material extracted from the cannabis plant is on its face a preparation of that plant, while material synthesised without the plant is not. The answer therefore depends on the origin of the particular product and on how a Bahamian court reads that definition, and neither was settled from the instruments held.
Consequences if caught
On the plant derived limb the Part II and Part IV offences apply and section 22(8)(a) brings in the ten pound Indian hemp threshold. On the synthetic limb nothing in Chapter 228 attaches. No purity or concentration cut off appears anywhere in the Act or in the 1994 Order, so there is no Bahamian equivalent of a low tetrahydrocannabinol hemp exemption to rely on.
If prescribed / medical
Section 24(1) authorises a qualified person to be in possession of and to supply a dangerous drug so far as necessary for the practice of his profession, and section 2 defines a qualified person as a registered medical practitioner, a registered dentist, a licensed veterinary surgeon, a licensed pharmacist, the public analyst, or a person granted special permission by the Minister. Section 24(2) requires the drug to be kept in a locked receptacle. Section 10(1) permits rules controlling manufacture, sale, possession and supply; no such rules were read for this cell. Import or export by anyone other than a qualified person is an offence under section 9, and needs an authorisation under Part V and permission under section 27. No medicinal cannabis or cannabidiol scheme appears in either instrument.
Documentation
A reported 2023 amendment to the Indian hemp wording and a Cannabis Bill 2024 were not held and nothing here rests on either; if the Indian hemp definition has changed, this row changes with it. The schedule placement stated here is not printed in the quotation column of the dossier read for this cell; it was read directly from the instrument text. No Ministerial Order later than S.I. 50 of 1996 was read for this cell, so a later addition by Order under section 6, section 11(3) or section 12(3) of the Act is not excluded. The Dangerous Drugs (Application) Order, 2024 was read and is not relied on: it carries no Statutory Instrument number, no signature and a blank execution block reading Made this day of 2024, and the Bahamas legislation portal serves it from its Bills directory rather than its subsidiary legislation directory.
Dangerous Drugs Act, Chapter 228, Statute Law of The Bahamas, LRO 1/2017 · Updated October 2, 2026
Lebanon
Legal status
Not a controlled substance under Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on the version read: it is not named in the four tables annexed to that Law, as those tables stand after Decree 343 of 16 May 2025, the last table change the publisher records, read on 22 September 2026 in the Ministry of Public Health consolidated annex carrying the seventh modification of January 2019 and in the Lebanese University consolidation note. It is not named, and Law 178 of 28 May 2020 regulates it as a cultivation and manufacturing input rather than by scheduling it.
Consequences if caught
No cannabidiol entry appears in the four tables of Law 673, and the abbreviation C.B.D. appears instead in Law 178 of 28 May 2020, whose article 4 gives the Regulatory Authority for the Cultivation of the Cannabis Plant for Medical and Industrial Use the job of fixing the permitted proportions of the active substances, naming T.H.C. and C.B.D. in the crops and in the agricultural, industrial, medical and pharmaceutical products under that Law. That is a licensing parameter and not a schedule entry. Cannabis and cannabis resin are a Table 1 entry, so plant material containing cannabidiol is reached by that entry whatever its cannabidiol content. Article 124 of Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors opens the penal part by confining it to the plants and substances placed under control and by dividing them into the highly dangerous substances of Tables 1 and 2, the dangerous substances of Table 3 and the precursors of Table 4. Article 125 punishes the Table 1 and Table 2 offences with hard labour for life and a fine of 25,000,000 to 100,000,000 Lebanese pounds. Article 128 punishes the Table 3 offences with hard labour not exceeding five years and a fine of 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 Lebanese pounds. Article 127 punishes a small quantity of a Table 1 or Table 2 substance held for personal use with three months to three years and a fine of 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 Lebanese pounds, and article 130 punishes the Table 3 equivalent with two months to two years and a fine of 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 Lebanese pounds. None of those articles states a quantity threshold. Article 150 doubles the maximum penalty in a list of aggravating cases that includes organising, directing or financing the offence, repeat offending, membership of an international smuggling ring, use of violence or a weapon, holding public office, working in health care, and supplying the drug to a minor. Article 148 gives the accomplice, the instigator and the intervener the penalty fixed for the principal. Article 155 makes confiscation of the substance and of the vehicles, equipment and other movable property used or prepared for the offence mandatory in every case. Article 152 lets the court expel a convicted foreign national from Lebanon permanently in felony and repeat misdemeanour cases, and remove him for one to five years in a misdemeanour case, taking him to the border once the prison term has run. Article 159 converts an unpaid fine into one day's imprisonment for every 25,000 Lebanese pounds. Article 161 bars suspension, splitting, day release, early release and conditional release during the first two thirds of any unsuspended sentence of a year or more. Articles 182 to 190 carry the treatment route the cell this replaces described: a user may come forward before any prosecution, article 189 exempts him from prosecution and puts the cost on the State once the addiction committee certifies his recovery, and article 190 arranges the aftercare. Articles 193 to 195 extend the same route into an investigation or a trial, with proceedings stayed definitively on recovery, and article 197 applies the articles 127 and 130 penalties where treatment is refused. Law 673 puts no capital penalty on any drug offence, and the one death penalty in it, article 140, attaches to killing a public official enforcing the Law or to an assault on one that causes a death. The cell this replaces stated that use or possession for personal use is punished by up to about 6 months' imprisonment plus a fine. That figure is carried here from the cell it replaces and it is not supported by the text: article 127 sets three months to three years, and article 130 sets two months to two years. The same cell put the treatment route at arts 182 to 190, which is right as far as it goes, and the route in fact runs to article 200. Its description of enforcement as uneven and of the treatment diversion as only partly implemented is carried forward from that cell and was not re-derived here. The figures above are Lebanon's published drug penalties, but this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Lebanon's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
Tunisia
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Tunisia's authorities (Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992, 'Law 52' / 'Law 92-52') / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Tunisian source (Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992 on Narcotics, 'Law 52' / 'Law 92-52', as amended April 2017), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Tunisia, drugs fall under Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992 on Narcotics ('Law 52' / 'Law 92-52'), as amended in April 2017. Use or possession for personal use carries 1-5 years' imprisonment plus a fine of 1,000-3,000 dinars; the April 2017 reform removed the mandatory-minimum sentence for a first offence and gave judges sentencing discretion for first and second offences (previously a near-automatic minimum applied). Cultivation or distribution carries 6-10 years plus a fine of 5,000-10,000 TND. Offences linked to organized gangs or smuggling carry 20 years to life imprisonment plus a fine of 100,000-1,000,000 TND.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Tunisia, drugs fall under Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992 on Narcotics ('Law 52' / 'Law 92-52'), as amended in April 2017. Use or possession for personal use carries 1-5 years' imprisonment plus a fine of 1,000-3,000 dinars; the April 2017 reform removed the mandatory-minimum sentence for a first offence and gave judges sentencing discretion for first and second offences (previously a near-automatic minimum applied). Cultivation or distribution carries 6-10 years plus a fine of 5,000-10,000 TND. Offences linked to organized gangs or smuggling carry 20 years to life imprisonment plus a fine of 100,000-1,000,000 TND. Cannabis is controlled under the same Law 92-52 framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime asserted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992 on Narcotics ("Law 52" / "Law 92-52"), as amended in April 2017 · UNODC SHERLOC legal database (statute named in free text) · sherloc.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Cyprus
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29(I)/1977, as amended) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Cyprus is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Cyprus's drug schedule; the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29(I)/1977, as amended) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Cyprus, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29(I)/1977), as amended, which sorts controlled substances into Classes A, B and C. Personal possession is a criminal offence, punishable by up to 12 years for a Class A drug, up to 8 years for Class B, and up to 4 years for Class C, though small-cannabis first offences in practice draw fines of about €400-1,000. Since 2003, possession at or above set quantities, three or more cannabis plants, 30 g or more of cannabis, or 10 g or more of prepared cocaine or opium, raises a presumption of intent to supply. Trafficking of a Class A or Class B drug is punishable by up to life imprisonment (a maximum not yet imposed in practice), and Class C trafficking by up to 8 years.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Cyprus, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29(I)/1977), as amended, which sorts controlled substances into Classes A, B and C. Personal possession is a criminal offence, punishable by up to 12 years for a Class A drug, up to 8 years for Class B, and up to 4 years for Class C, though small-cannabis first offences in practice draw fines of about €400-1,000. Since 2003, possession at or above set quantities, three or more cannabis plants, 30 g or more of cannabis, or 10 g or more of prepared cocaine or opium, raises a presumption of intent to supply. Trafficking of a Class A or Class B drug is punishable by up to life imprisonment (a maximum not yet imposed in practice), and Class C trafficking by up to 8 years. Cannabis is a Class B drug; recreational use is illegal and only a limited medical-cannabis framework exists. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29(I)/1977), as amended (classes A/B/C) · naac.org.cy · Updated July 14, 2026
Iceland
Legal status
Not a controlled substance in Iceland in its own right, and the qualification is the whole answer. Cannabidiol has no row of its own: it is not named in Fylgiskjal I, searched across all 807 printed rows and both name columns as cannabidiol, kannabidiol and CBD, with no hit, and it is not named in the 6. gr. list of lög nr. 65/1974 either. What is printed nearby shows the drafter naming this family when it means to. "Tetrahydrocannabidiol", with "H4-CBD" beside it, is a row of its own with an "x" in column B, and "Tetrahydrocannabinol" is printed at P I with an "x" and with its scope written into the row as THC and all of its isomers and derivatives including the acid. So a CBD product carrying any THC is a preparation containing a listed substance under 1. gr. and lands inside the 2. gr. prohibition, while the isolated molecule has no place in the instrument at all. Which of those a given bottle is, is a question of analysis rather than of labelling.
Consequences if caught
The 2. gr. prohibition and the offence in 5. gr. of lög nr. 65/1974 both bite on a substance the instruments reach, and this row is not one of them. Iceland's published drug penalties are set out next so the reader can see what the narcotics regime does carry. The custodial ceiling for an offence against the Act and against the regulations made under it is imprisonment for up to 6 years, which 5. gr. of lög nr. 65/1974, the Narcotics Act, prints as "fangelsi allt að 6 árum", and the aggravated offence at article 173a of almenn hegningarlög nr. 19/1940, the General Penal Code, carries imprisonment for up to 12 years. Iceland prints no quantity band: neither the Act nor the reglugerð sets a weight, a purity or a number of doses that moves an offence from one tier to another, and article 173a turns instead on supplying narcotics to many people, on handing them over for substantial payment, or on doing so in another particularly culpable way, its second paragraph extending the same ceiling to production, preparation, import, export, purchase, delivery, receipt and possession carried out for that purpose. The fine is separate again: 5. gr. of lög nr. 65/1974 sets a fine as the alternative to imprisonment for the base offence, the same article makes the substances, the proceeds of unlawful sale and the articles used forfeit to the Treasury, and it directs increased punishment for a repeat offence involving import or distribution. The 12 year ceiling is not the original figure: 1. gr. of lög nr. 32/2001 raised the aggravated ceiling from 10 to 12 years at article 173a of the General Penal Code, where 10 years had stood since lög nr. 64/1974, and that Act prints the substitution as "kemur: 12 árum". Possession is unlawful and consumption is not among the conduct the two instruments enumerate. 2. gr. of lög nr. 65/1974 and 2. gr. of the reglugerð, headed "Bannákvæði", both list import, export, sale, purchase, exchange, delivery, receipt, production, preparation and possession, and neither of them prints consumption in that list. Iceland has not decriminalised possession. What it has done instead is 2. gr. a of the Act, inserted by lög nr. 48/2020 and amended by lög nr. 41/2025, which lets the Directorate of Health licence a "neyslurými", a supervised consumption room governed by reglugerð nr. 170/2021, in which a user may hold the quantity he intends to consume there. Those figures are Iceland's and not this substance's: this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Iceland's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. The list read for this cell is Fylgiskjal I of reglugerð nr. 233/2001, read at api.reglugerd.is on 22 September 2026 in the consolidation the publisher serves as current, which carries amendments 1 to 19 and its own last amendment date of 9 August 2025 from reglugerð nr. 879/2025. That consolidation is one amendment behind the law and this cell says so: the 20th amendment, reglugerð nr. 1036/2025, is flagged pending by the publisher although its own 3. gr. commences it on 1 November 2025, and the two texts of 5. gr. visibly differ, the served one opening at pharmacy stock sent to Lyfjastofnun and the amending one opening at the holder of a pharmacy, wholesale or manufacturing licence. It was read in full and it rewrites 5. gr. and the heading of 7. gr. and nothing else, leaving both Fylgiskjöl untouched and printing no transitory article. The Act and the penal code were read in the Lagasafn consolidation stamped "Íslensk lög 1. september 2026", útgáfa 157c, whose own note records that lög nr. 85/2026 will amend the Act from 1 January 2027; that Act was read and its 51. gr. only renames the authority in 2. gr. b. A scan of the 360 regulations the publisher issued between 27 November 2025 and 7 September 2026 found no further amendment, so this cell does not rule out a later change to the list.
Luxembourg
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Narcotics Law of 1973 (as amended by the Law of 10 July 2023) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Luxembourg is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Luxembourg's drug schedule; the Narcotics Law of 1973 (as amended by the Law of 10 July 2023) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Luxembourg, drugs fall under the Narcotics Law of 1973, amended by the Law of 10 July 2023. For drugs other than cannabis, possession remains criminal under the 1973 law, minor possession draws imprisonment of 8 days to 6 months plus fines, and trafficking and large-scale supply carry heavier penalties under the separate provisions of that law.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Luxembourg, drugs fall under the Narcotics Law of 1973, amended by the Law of 10 July 2023. For drugs other than cannabis, possession remains criminal under the 1973 law, minor possession draws imprisonment of 8 days to 6 months plus fines, and trafficking and large-scale supply carry heavier penalties under the separate provisions of that law. For cannabis specifically, the Law of 10 July 2023 legalised home cultivation of up to four plants per household and private consumption at home for adults; public possession of 3 g or less draws a €145 administrative fine with no criminal record. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law of 10 July 2023 amending the Narcotics Law of 19 February 1973 · police.public.lu · Updated July 14, 2026
Malta
Legal status
CBD is dealt with by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and the way it is dealt with is an exclusion rather than a control. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Here Chapter 101 answers. Article 2 and Part I of the Fifth Schedule classify CBD as a non-psychoactive phytocannabinoid, and the statutory definition of cannabis excludes qualifying products. The text reads "CBD, Cannabidiol"; cannabis excludes products "derived from non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids containing not more than zero point two (0.2) percent of psychoactive cannabinoids". CBD is expressly classified as a non-psychoactive phytocannabinoid, but the statutory cannabis exclusion depends on the 0.2 percent psychoactive-cannabinoid ceiling. The exclusion is conditional on that ceiling rather than on the product being sold as CBD, so a product that exceeds it, or that carries a controlled cannabinoid, falls back into the cannabis rules. The power to amend the Fifth Schedule is article 34(3).
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No drug law penalty and no diversion analysis is triggered while the product meets the quoted classification and stays at or under the 0.2 per cent psychoactive cannabinoid ceiling, so there is no ceiling to state for a compliant product. Above that ceiling, or where a controlled cannabinoid is present, the exclusion falls away and the cannabis rules have to be reassessed, and those carry life under Chapter 101 article 22 for dealing or possession not for the exclusive use of the possessor. The exposure therefore turns on the composition of the specific product rather than on its label, and a traveller cannot verify that ceiling at the border.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription question arises under the two drug ordinances, because a compliant product is excluded from the definition of cannabis rather than controlled within it, so there is nothing for a prescription to authorise. The condition is the 0.2 per cent psychoactive cannabinoid ceiling and the non-psychoactive phytocannabinoid classification, not the product's description. Where a product fails that condition the cannabis position applies instead, and Chapter 537 is a treatment statute rather than a prescribing one. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. The text that fixes the exclusion is "CBD, Cannabidiol"; cannabis excludes products "derived from non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids containing not more than zero point two (0.2) percent of psychoactive cannabinoids".
Not confirmed. CBD is not named in the Listado de sustancias estupefacientes, psicotropicos, precursores y agregados 2026, approved by Acuerdo SI.2026.03.20-01 of the Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria, and the absence does not settle the row, because Article 2 of the Ley Reguladora de las Actividades Relativas a las Drogas, Decreto Legislativo 153 of 2 October 2003 does not stop at the lists: it also reaches, in its own words, substances that act on the central nervous system and whose misuse can cause physical or psychological dependence, and Article 3 letter f lets the health regulator prohibit a further substance. Whether either limb reaches this row was not settled from the documents read here. The Listado prints tetrahidrocannabinol with a list of named isomers and prints hexahidrocannabinol separately, and cannabidiol appears in none of them, so the cannabinoid entries are enumerated rather than generic.
Consequences if caught
The Listado prints tetrahidrocannabinol with a list of named isomers and prints hexahidrocannabinol separately, and cannabidiol appears in none of them, so the cannabinoid entries are enumerated rather than generic. CBD was not settled against El Salvador's drug control regime, and the penalties below are set out because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Article 34 divides possession from trafficking by a 2 gram line: possession of under 2 grams carries 1 to 3 years, possession of 2 grams or more carries 3 to 6 years, and possession of any quantity with the object of doing anything Article 33 lists carries 6 to 10 years. Article 34 closes by providing that it does not apply where the conduct fits a graver offence. There is no personal use exemption anywhere in the Ley. Article 31 sets 5 to 15 years for sowing, cultivating or harvesting, and Article 33 sets 10 to 15 years for acquiring, transferring, importing, exporting, storing, transporting, distributing, supplying or selling. Article 33's second paragraph raises the trafficking penalty by one third of the stated maximum where the act is international trafficking, so the ceiling on that route is 20 years, and Article 54 allows a court to raise the penalty by up to one third of the maximum on any of nine listed aggravating circumstances, which is a discretion and not the mandatory increase Article 33 creates. Article 55 allows the penalty to be cut to half the minimum where the accused names others or enables a seizure. The ceiling on every one of these routes is imprisonment, because the severest sanction is constitutionally barred for ordinary offences in El Salvador, so no offence in this Ley carries it. The Ley creates no lawful recreational regime and no medical regime for any substance it reaches, cannabis included: Article 3's final paragraph permits a listed substance to be imported, produced, made, extracted, possessed or used only in the quantities strictly necessary for scientific research, for making medicines, for medical treatment or for making products of industrial use, and only with the health regulator's authorisation. On the fine, the Sala de lo Constitucional struck the multa in each of these three articles as a penal consequence, Article 34 by the accumulated 2006 judgments published on 22 October 2007, Article 33 by the 92-2007 judgments published on 19 August 2009 and Article 31 by judgment 45-2010 published on 23 October 2013, so no fine now attaches to cultivation, trafficking or possession under this Ley. On quantity, the 2 gram line in Article 34 is the only weight the Ley fixes; it sets no substance by substance threshold and no quantity table, so the same 2 grams applies whatever the substance is. The 2 gram line and the bands of 1 to 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 10, 5 to 15 and 10 to 15 years and the one third increase are carried forward from the live cell and were re-read against the Asamblea Legislativa text for this pass; the Article 34 graver offence proviso, the Article 54 and Article 55 provisions and the three unconstitutionality rulings are new to this cell.
Honduras
Legal status
Not a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal. CBD, searched also as 2-[(1R,6R)-3-methyl-6-prop-1-en-2-ylcyclohex-2-en-1-yl]-5-pentylbenzene-1,3-diol, is not named in Listas I, II or IV of the 1961 Convention or in Listas I to IV of the 1971 Convention, which Article 321 makes the closed definition of droga, estupefaciente o sustancia psicotrópica: «Por droga, estupefaciente o sustancia psicotrópica, se entiende cualquiera de las sustancias incluidas en las Listas I, II y IV de la Convención Única y sus Protocolos de Naciones Unidas sobre estupefacientes, hecha en Nueva York de 1961 y en las Listas I, II, III y IV del Convenio y sus Protocolos de Naciones Unidas sobre sustancias psicotrópicas, hecho en Viena, el 21 de febrero de 1971.» The surviving definitions in Article 5 of Decreto 126/89 point the other way here: numeral 23 defines marihuana as «Marihuana: Significa todas las partes de la planta Cannabis Sativa, variedad americana y variedad índica, esté en proceso de crecimiento o no, las semillas de la misma, la resina extraída de cualquier parte de dicha planta», and a compound extracted from the plant is within those words. Where it does bite, it now bites without a penalty of its own, because Article 632 repealed the article of the 1989 law that punished a breach.
Consequences if caught
CBD is outside the offence that Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal create. What distinguishes this row is that cannabis, its resin and its extracts are listed and cannabidiol is not named among them. Art. 311 sets 4 to 7 years where the drug does not cause grave harm to health and 7 to 10 years in every other case. The fine under Art. 311 is 100 to 500 days. Art. 311's second paragraph allows 1 to 3 years or 2 to 5 years instead where the facts and the offender's own circumstances show lesser gravity, and that reduction is closed once an Art. 312 aggravator applies. Art. 312 replaces those terms with 10 to 15 years and a fine of 300 to 500 days on any of nine listed aggravators, and adds a further third where the organised group aggravator meets either the special quantity or the extraordinary transport one. Art. 313 cuts the Art. 311 first paragraph terms and the Art. 312 terms by a third on confession or on cooperation with the authorities. Art. 321 sets the special quantity in five categories, of marihuana, hashish, cocaine, opium and synthetic drug, none of which is engaged by this row. Art. 26 of Decreto 126/89, which set a first offence internment of up to 30 days in a rehabilitation centre with a fine, was repealed by Art. 632 of the Código Penal, which repeals Arts 16 to 30 and 41 of that law by name, so the 30 day figure is corrected here rather than restated. Nothing replaced it inside the Code's drug chapter, and Art. 311 reaches possession only where the substance is held for the purposes that article lists, so neither the Código Penal nor Decreto 126/89 as it now stands fixes a personal use quantity or a personal use measure. Those are the two instruments read for this cell, and other Honduran law was not searched for one. The Art. 311 bands of 4 to 7 and 7 to 10 years, the Art. 312 band of 10 to 15 years and the 30 day figure from Art. 26 are carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived here, and this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Honduras's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. The Art. 311 fine, the lesser gravity terms, Art. 313 and the Art. 321 quantities are read from the Gaceta text and are new to this cell.
Maldives
Legal status
CBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as cannabis and among the strictest regimes, the Drugs Act (Law No. 17/2011) classifies cannabis as Schedule 1 with no CBD/cannabis distinction or THC threshold, and Customs lists narcotics as prohibited imports.
Consequences if caught
Possession reaches about 15 years and trafficking up to life plus fines (MVR 100,000-10,000,000) with the death penalty available; CBD is confiscated on arrival (not bonded) and can trigger prosecution.
If prescribed / medical
A very narrow personal-medical route for controlled drugs (registered-practitioner prescription) is not recognised for cannabis/CBD, which is prohibited outright.
Documentation
No documentation legalises CBD, a Schedule 1 narcotic confiscated on arrival; a foreign prescription does not permit entry.
Not confirmed, the Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (with the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Afghanistan is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Afghanistan's drug schedule; the Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (with the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Afghanistan, drugs fall under the Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (with the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law). Trafficking penalties are graduated by weight: trafficking heroin, morphine or cocaine caps at 20 years (Art. 42), and the largest quantities reach life imprisonment, the named statute's drug-trafficking ceiling is imprisonment. Drug use carries roughly a short prison term (about 3 months). Enforcement since 2021 under the de facto authorities is opaque and may diverge from the statute on the books; any sanction beyond what the named statute provides is not confirmed here, verify against current practice.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Afghanistan, drugs fall under the Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (with the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law). Trafficking penalties are graduated by weight: trafficking heroin, morphine or cocaine caps at 20 years (Art. 42), and the largest quantities reach life imprisonment, the named statute's drug-trafficking ceiling is imprisonment. Drug use carries roughly a short prison term (about 3 months). Enforcement since 2021 under the de facto authorities is opaque and may diverge from the statute on the books; any sanction beyond what the named statute provides is not confirmed here, verify against current practice. Cannabis is controlled under the same framework; cultivation and trafficking are prohibited, with penalties graduated by weight up to imprisonment. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (Arts 41-47) + the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law · sherloc.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Belarus
Legal status
Not confirmed for Belarus, and this cell states the search rather than an answer. The terms taken to the annexes of Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11 февраля 2015 г. республиканский перечень were "CBD", "kanabidiol", run across every list heading, the salts and isomers language and the named plants at № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments, and no exact printed entry and no proved bounded class match was established. The near comparison is «КАННАБИС, растение», the same plant entry the cannabinol row was measured against, and it is declined for the same reason. The annexes print a tetrahydrocannabinol heading and two named cannabinoid analogues, so a cannabidiol row would have been recognisable if it were there, and the record is that it was not found. The negative is recorded as a version specific absence at BEL-28. It reports what the official text did not settle and it does not state that CBD is lawful in Belarus. One limit belongs on the face of this cell rather than in a footnote. The search set recorded for this row is written in Latin script, and so is every one of the eighty eight search sets in this source, while most of the entries the same source accepts elsewhere are printed in Cyrillic. A Latin search of a Cyrillic annex can return nothing whether or not the substance is there, so this absence is reported as what the record establishes and not as a settled negative.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Belarus retains capital punishment in its general criminal law, and that is a separate question from what a drug offence carries. Criminal Code Article 328 provides neither the death penalty nor life imprisonment, so a term of years is the whole of the drug scale here. The figure itself is disputed and the dispute is stated rather than hidden: this repair reads Article 328(5) as a twenty year ceiling, the cell it replaces read the same paragraph as twelve to twenty five years, and the sources reachable here do not settle which reading is right. The earlier cell also framed the offence as articles 327 to 328 with a superscript one, a range this repair does not mention at all, so treat the article range as well as the figure as open. That scale attaches to an offence in a substance the annexes list, and whether this row is one of them is exactly what the search did not settle, record BEL-28. No penalty figure is assigned to CBD here, because a penalty cannot honestly be stated for a status the source leaves open, and the capital line above is safe to state only because it rests on Article 328 rather than on the schedule. Belarus sets no lawful personal use allowance for anything it does list, so an unresolved status is not a small risk. The annexes print a tetrahydrocannabinol heading and two named cannabinoids, so the list plainly can name an isolated cannabinoid, and the open question is why this one was not found rather than whether it could have been.
If prescribed / medical
The traveller rule is stated at country level and it is the same for every substance in this set: Belarus provides no lawful personal use allowance and no traveller exemption, and a scheduled medicine has to satisfy Закон Республики Беларусь «О лекарственных средствах» as well as the narcotics annexes, meaning prescription, original packaging, and import and customs formalities. The placement that would have to be attached to that rule is the one this row could not establish, record BEL-28, so the prescription question is deferred here rather than answered. Put it to the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus, and the question to put is whether CBD appears in the республиканский перечень at all. Nothing in this cell should be read as permission to carry it. Ask about cannabidiol by name and by its relationship to the plant entry, because the annexes do name other isolated cannabinoids and the absence of this one is the whole of the doubt.
Kyrgyzstan
Legal status
Not confirmed. The dossier did not establish whether Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 152 of 26 March 2025 reaches CBD. Its search record, as checked on 18 September 2026: «cbd» was searched by exact name, synonym and any stated salt, isomer or analogue rule in the resolution's controlled list and in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables of its criteria and sizes annex. No outcome-safe exact or group entry for «cbd» was retained from the list text. No substance specific quantity row was established in the annex. Criminal Code articles 282 to 284 were checked and supply consequences, but did not settle the missing substance match.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The dossier records for this row that no death penalty applies to the drug offences in Criminal Code articles 282 to 284. No other penalty is stated for CBD, because whether Resolution No. 152 reaches it is open and the dossier quotes no quantity row for it.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is stated for CBD, because whether the controlled list reaches it is open.
Documentation
No traveller rule is stated for CBD. The open point the dossier names for this row is whether a different schedule synonym or group rule legally reaches cbd, and, if so, which quantity rule applies.
Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 152 of 26 March 2025, controlled list and criteria and sizes annex, with Criminal Code articles 282 to 284, as checked on 18 September 2026 · cbd.minjust.gov.kg · Updated October 3, 2026
Uzbekistan
Legal status
Not confirmed. The Uzbekistan dossier, checked 18 September 2026, did not establish a control entry for CBD, and its row is marked not verified. The dossier's search record for this row: Search term: «cbd»; transliteration/Latin identifier: cbd. Searched Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 330 of 12 November 2015, controlled Lists I to IV by exact name, synonym, salt/isomer language, and any relevant structural family. No outcome-safe exact or class match for «cbd» was retained from the schedule extraction. Then searched Resolution No. 330 quantity annexes for «cbd» and the same identifiers; no quoted substance-specific threshold row was established. Second instrument checked: Criminal Code arts 270 to 276; it supplies offence consequences but no missing per-substance number. Open point: whether an unquoted schedule synonym or group row legally reaches cbd, and, if so, which quantity entry applies.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The dossier quotes article 25 of the Constitution: «В Республике Узбекистан смертная казнь запрещается» (the death penalty is prohibited in the Republic of Uzbekistan). Because no control entry for CBD was established, the dossier quotes no threshold for it and this cell states no offence or penalty band for it. Treat it as unresolved, not as permitted.
If prescribed / medical
Not stated. The dossier row carries no prescription information for CBD, and whether it is controlled at all is not established.
Documentation
Not stated. The dossier row carries no import, permit or traveller documentation rule for CBD. Instruments the dossier searched for this row: Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 330 of 12 November 2015, controlled Lists I to IV; Resolution No. 330 quantity annexes; Criminal Code arts 270 to 276. The dossier row records one URL, https://lex.uz/docs/2815342. The dossier's source and access record gives https://lex.uz/docs/111453 as its penal source, cited here for the Criminal Code. It gives no URL for the Constitution, which is cited by name.
Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 330 of 12 November 2015, controlled Lists I to IV and quantity annexes · Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, articles 270 to 276 · lex.uz · lex.uz · Updated October 3, 2026
Tanzania
Legal status
Controlled as a cannabis extract, and not named as a compound. Cannabidiol is not named in the First or Second Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, as the Schedules stand after GN No. 189 of 2024, read on 3 October 2026. The Single Convention list in the First Schedule prints «Cannabis and cannabis resin and extracts and tinctures of cannabis», section 2 defines cannabis as «any part of the plant of the genus cannabis, excluding the seeds, the mature stock, or fibre produce from the cannabis plant or cannabis resin», and defines medicinal cannabis as «any extract or tincture of cannabis». A CBD oil or isolate made from the plant is an extract of cannabis on that text; CBD made by synthesis is not named.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Cap 95 prints no sentence of death: its text, read in full on 3 October 2026, was searched for death and the word does not occur in it. Section 1(2) says «This Act shall apply to Mainland Tanzania.», and section 1(3) extends Parts III and IV to some conduct outside the mainland, including by «a citizen or a person who ordinarily resides in the United Republic». Zanzibar has its own Zanzibar Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority Act, No. 8 of 2021, whose English text is a scanned image that was read here by OCR; its sections 19, 21 and 22 set life imprisonment as the highest drug penalty and the search found no sentence of death in it. For a CBD product that is an extract of the plant, the following apply, subject to the weight question in the documentation. Section 2 defines trafficking to include «the importation, exportation, buying, sale, giving, supplying, storing, possession, production, manufacturing, conveyance, delivery or distribution». Section 15(1) punishes trafficking with life imprisonment where, by section 15(3)(i), a person trafficks «narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances weighing more than two hundred grams», and section 16(1) sets «imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years» where, by section 16(2)(a), they weigh «200 grams or below». Small quantity possession proved to be for personal consumption, and consumption, fall under section 18(1): where the drug «is cocaine, morphine, diacetyl-morphine or any other narcotic drug or any psychotropic substance specified by the Minister by notice in the Gazette», a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of five years or both, and otherwise a fine of not less than five hundred thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both. Section 18(2) puts on the possessor the burden of proving personal consumption, and section 18(3) leaves «small quantity» to the Minister's regulations, which were not read, nor was any notice under section 18(1)(a), so which paragraph applies to a CBD extract is not settled here. Section 19 punishes a person who «smokes, inhales, sniffs, injects or otherwise uses» a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance with a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both.
Azerbaijan
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Azerbaijan is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Azerbaijan's drug schedule; the Criminal Code (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Azerbaijan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000). Illegal acquisition and possession of narcotic or psychotropic substances without intent to sell is the lower tier (Art. 234), while illegal manufacture, production, sale and trafficking (Art. 235), cultivation (Art. 237) and related conduct (Art. 240) escalate with quantity and aggravating factors, the Code's punishment ceiling being life imprisonment. Penalties were tightened by 2022 amendments to Articles 235, 237 and 240.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Azerbaijan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000). Illegal acquisition and possession of narcotic or psychotropic substances without intent to sell is the lower tier (Art. 234), while illegal manufacture, production, sale and trafficking (Art. 235), cultivation (Art. 237) and related conduct (Art. 240) escalate with quantity and aggravating factors, the Code's punishment ceiling being life imprisonment. Penalties were tightened by 2022 amendments to Articles 235, 237 and 240. Cannabis is controlled under the same Criminal Code framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of Azerbaijan (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000), Arts 234/235/237/240 · track.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Mongolia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Mongolia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mongolia's drug schedule; the Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mongolia, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017). The core offences are drug trafficking, the illegal manufacture, sale or distribution of drugs, and drug possession; trafficking carries imprisonment up to life, while use or possession of small amounts carries lesser imprisonment. Mongolia's drug law does not provide a life-or-higher term for simple use; trafficking is the serious tier.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mongolia, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017). The core offences are drug trafficking, the illegal manufacture, sale or distribution of drugs, and drug possession; trafficking carries imprisonment up to life, while use or possession of small amounts carries lesser imprisonment. Mongolia's drug law does not provide a life-or-higher term for simple use; trafficking is the serious tier. Cannabis is controlled under the same Criminal Code framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017) · legalinfo.mn · Updated July 14, 2026
Moldova
Legal status
Not confirmed for Moldova. The repair could not settle CBD from the official text it read, and this cell states the search rather than an answer. The recorded search set was "CBD", "kanabidiol", run across every annex of Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 in the official consolidated record checked on 20 September 2026, including salts, isomers, named plants and the amendments, and the result is held as version specific absence record MOL-28. The record inspected the printed cannabis plant line as its near comparison and rejected it. The tetrahydrocannabinol line the same repair used to resolve the delta eight row was not inspected here either, so two of the three cannabinoid questions in the set were closed against the plant rather than against the cannabinoid entry. A search that did not settle the question is not a finding that the substance is uncontrolled, and it is not a finding that it is controlled. Two further limits are worth stating plainly. The record is version specific, so an amendment after 20 September 2026 can change it. And the recorded term set is what was searched, so a Romanian spelling outside that set would not have been reached. Treat this row as open and put the question to the Moldovan medicines authority before relying on anything.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Moldova provides no death penalty for a drug offence, and Article 217¹ of the Codul penal does not provide life imprisonment either, so the top of the scale is a term of years. That much is settled whatever the schedule position turns out to be, and it is the one part of this row the repair could state. No exposure is assigned to CBD here, because the control question was not settled and a penalty cannot be stated for a status that is unknown. Fifteen years under Article 217¹(4) is what Moldova applies to a substance that is on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006, and whether this one is on them is exactly what record MOL-28 could not establish after searching "CBD", "kanabidiol". A quantity band cannot be attached to an unproved identity either, so the band that would decide which article applies is also unstated. Read the absence as an open question and not as an acquittal. The record measured this row against the plant line's band and not against the printed cannabinoid line, which is where the harder question lies. [Likely] Carried forward from the published entry and not re-derived from statute in this pass: The ceiling is 15 years. Criminal Code article 217 with a superscript one, subsection (4), provides a term of seven to fifteen years.
If prescribed / medical
Moldova states its traveller rule at country level rather than substance by substance. A scheduled medicine has to satisfy Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente together with the prescription, packaging, import and customs rules, and a criminal quantity band under Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 is not a lawful traveller allowance. The placement this row would attach to that rule is exactly what record MOL-28 could not establish, so this field is deferred and says so. The narcotics status of CBD in Moldova is open on the official text that was read, and a prescription answer cannot be built on an open status. The question to put to the Moldovan medicines authority is whether the substance appears on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 at all, and only then what a prescription would require. Nothing here is permission to obtain or to carry it. The placement was tested against the plant line and rejected, and the printed cannabinoid line remains the untested half of the question.
Turkmenistan
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Turkmenistan is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Turkmenistan's drug schedule; the Criminal Code (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Turkmenistan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended). The illegal manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or transfer of narcotic or psychotropic substances for the purpose of sale (Art. 292) and related articles are the trafficking offences: production, storage or transport for sale carries 3-10 years, escalating to 12-20 years with confiscation for large-quantity, official-position or otherwise aggravated cases, while use or possession carries up to 5 years.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Turkmenistan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended). The illegal manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or transfer of narcotic or psychotropic substances for the purpose of sale (Art. 292) and related articles are the trafficking offences: production, storage or transport for sale carries 3-10 years, escalating to 12-20 years with confiscation for large-quantity, official-position or otherwise aggravated cases, while use or possession carries up to 5 years. Cannabis is controlled under the same Criminal Code framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of Turkmenistan (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended), Art. 292 · bwcimplementation.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Senegal
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by Loi Latif Guèye No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Senegal is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Senegal's drug schedule; the Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by Loi Latif Guèye No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Senegal, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by the 'Loi Latif Guèye' No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007). For Tableau I high-risk drugs, cultivation, production or manufacture (Art. 95) and international import, export or transport (Art. 96) carry 5-10 years and a fine equal to triple the value of the drugs seized; offer, sale, distribution, brokerage, transport, purchase, possession or use of Tableau I drugs (Art. 97) carries 5-10 years and a 2,000,000-10,000,000 franc fine, raised by the 2007 amendment to fixed-term hard labour of 10-20 years for aggravated offering or sale. Facilitating others' use (Art. 98) carries 2-5 years, and personal-use possession or purchase (Art. 109) two months to one year.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Senegal, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by the 'Loi Latif Guèye' No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007). For Tableau I high-risk drugs, cultivation, production or manufacture (Art. 95) and international import, export or transport (Art. 96) carry 5-10 years and a fine equal to triple the value of the drugs seized; offer, sale, distribution, brokerage, transport, purchase, possession or use of Tableau I drugs (Art. 97) carries 5-10 years and a 2,000,000-10,000,000 franc fine, raised by the 2007 amendment to fixed-term hard labour of 10-20 years for aggravated offering or sale. Facilitating others' use (Art. 98) carries 2-5 years, and personal-use possession or purchase (Art. 109) two months to one year. Cannabis (chanvre indien) is a Tableau I drug under the same Code des Drogues, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by Loi Latif Guèye No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007), Arts 95/96/97/98/109 · sherloc.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Nicaragua
Legal status
Not confirmed. CBD was not settled against Nicaragua's controlled list in this pass. Cannabidiol is not named in the annexed lists, and it is not among the cannabinoids the 1971 list carries. The printed cannabis entry covers the plant and its resin, which leaves an isolated non intoxicating constituent unresolved on the face of these lists. The lists relied on are those as annexed in 1999 and carried into Ley No. 735 by article 101 of the consolidated text published in La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 32 of 20 February 2024. That reading does not rule out a later incorporation by the Ministry of Health, which article 1 permits to be published in any newspaper of national circulation before it reaches the gazette.
Consequences if caught
CBD was not settled against Nicaragua's controlled list in this pass, and it should not be treated as permitted on that account. Cannabidiol is not named in the annexed lists, and it is not among the cannabinoids the 1971 list carries. The printed cannabis entry covers the plant and its resin, which leaves an isolated non intoxicating constituent unresolved on the face of these lists. Trafficking under article 359 of Ley No. 641 carries 5 to 15 years of prison, rising to 10 to 20 years where the trafficking is international. Article 358, as reformed in September 2024, bands simple possession at more than 1 gram and under 5 grams for cocaine or any other controlled substance, at more than 5 grams and under 20 grams for marihuana, and at 1 to 5 psychoactive plants, with a heavier band of 3 to 8 years above those figures. The fine article 359 attaches is 300 to 800 day fines, and 500 to 1000 day fines for the international form. Whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
Nicaragua controls by three limbs at once: the lists and tables annexed to the law, whatever the Ministry of Health incorporates afterwards, and whatever the international instruments in force contain. The first limb is readable and was read for this cell. The second is published by the Ministry of Health and article 1 allows it to appear in any newspaper of national circulation before the gazette carries it, so it cannot be enumerated from the gazette alone. The third moves whenever the international schedules move. The same title prices the other conduct separately: financing at 10 to 25 years under article 348, sowing, growing or harvesting at 5 to 10 under article 349, industrial or artisanal processing at 5 to 20 under article 351, transport at 5 to 15 under article 352, carrying on the body at 2 to 8 under article 353, and storage at 5 to 15 under article 355. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and confirm the position with a Nicaraguan consulate before travelling. The lists relied on are those as annexed in 1999 and carried into Ley No. 735 by article 101 of the consolidated text published in La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 32 of 20 February 2024. That reading does not rule out a later incorporation by the Ministry of Health, which article 1 permits to be published in any newspaper of national circulation before it reaches the gazette.
Uganda
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Uganda is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Uganda's drug schedule; the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Uganda, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016). Possession (s.4) carries imprisonment, substantial fixed terms up to around 25 years depending on the substance and quantity, while trafficking, smuggling and dealing (s.5 and related provisions) carry up to life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. A later 2023 consolidation/amendment of the drug law has been reported; this entry states the 2016 Act as in force and any subsequent amendment should be confirmed.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Uganda, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016). Possession (s.4) carries imprisonment, substantial fixed terms up to around 25 years depending on the substance and quantity, while trafficking, smuggling and dealing (s.5 and related provisions) carry up to life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. A later 2023 consolidation/amendment of the drug law has been reported; this entry states the 2016 Act as in force and any subsequent amendment should be confirmed. Cannabis is controlled under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016), ss.4-5 · media.ulii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Zimbabwe
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] and the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02] is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Zimbabwe is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Zimbabwe's drug schedule; the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] and the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02] is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Zimbabwe, drugs fall under the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (dangerous-drugs provisions, s.155 onward), together with the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02]. Use, possession or cultivation for one's own use carries a fine and/or imprisonment of up to 5 years, while dealing and trafficking carry long fixed-term imprisonment that rises with quantity and aggravation. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Zimbabwe, drugs fall under the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (dangerous-drugs provisions, s.155 onward), together with the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02]. Use, possession or cultivation for one's own use carries a fine and/or imprisonment of up to 5 years, while dealing and trafficking carry long fixed-term imprisonment that rises with quantity and aggravation. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. Cannabis is controlled under the same framework, with no legal recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (dangerous-drugs provisions, s.155 onward) + Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02] · zimlii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Ethiopia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Ethiopia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Ethiopia's drug schedule; the Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Ethiopia, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004). Trafficking in narcotic or psychotropic substances (Art. 525) carries rigorous imprisonment of 5-15 years plus a fine, while lesser dealing sub-articles carry rigorous imprisonment in the 5-7 year range. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Ethiopia, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004). Trafficking in narcotic or psychotropic substances (Art. 525) carries rigorous imprisonment of 5-15 years plus a fine, while lesser dealing sub-articles carry rigorous imprisonment in the 5-7 year range. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. Khat (chat) is lawful and culturally significant in Ethiopia and is not a prohibited substance under the Criminal Code. Cannabis, by contrast, is controlled under the same Criminal Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004), Art. 525 · wipo.int · Updated July 14, 2026
Algeria
Legal status
Not confirmed, Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 (as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Algeria is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Algeria's drug schedule; Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 (as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Algeria, drugs fall under Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 on the prevention and suppression of the illicit use and trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023. Trafficking, production, manufacture, sale or transport with intent, carries imprisonment of 10-20 years plus a fine of DZD 5,000,000-50,000,000, rising to 20-30 years where committed by a public official or a health professional or in aggravated circumstances; personal-use possession carries lesser imprisonment and/or a fine. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Algeria, drugs fall under Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 on the prevention and suppression of the illicit use and trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023. Trafficking, production, manufacture, sale or transport with intent, carries imprisonment of 10-20 years plus a fine of DZD 5,000,000-50,000,000, rising to 20-30 years where committed by a public official or a health professional or in aggravated circumstances; personal-use possession carries lesser imprisonment and/or a fine. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. (Reported/unverified: human-rights reporting in 2025 referred to legislative efforts to expand the death penalty to certain drug offences; this is a reported proposal and is NOT reflected as enacted in the statute cited here, confirm against the current law.) Cannabis is controlled under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 on the prevention and suppression of illicit use and trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023 · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Tajikistan
Legal status
Not confirmed. CBD is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 as the Drug Control Agency published it, read at https://akn.tj/ru/2020/04/09/national-list-of-narcotic-drugs-psychotropic-substances-and-their-precursors/ on 3 October 2026, nor in the Agency's consolidation of the list as amended up to Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023, nor in Annex 1 to the Criminal Code in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026. The texts were searched in Russian and Latin script for "каннабидиол", "cbd". Cannabidiol is not named. The cannabis entry reaches «Растения конопли любого вида, содержащие любой из изомеров тетрогидроканнабинола», cannabis plants of any kind containing any tetrahydrocannabinol isomer, and «Масло каннабиса», so a CBD product made from cannabis that carries tetrahydrocannabinol may be caught as cannabis; the texts read set no tetrahydrocannabinol threshold, so that is not settled here. So this cell does not say whether CBD is controlled in Tajikistan.
Consequences if caught
Not confirmed. No offence article, size band or penalty is stated for CBD, because no entry for it was found in the texts read. The previous version of this cell named Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 and the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as the framework its dossier checked.
If prescribed / medical
Not confirmed. With no entry found for CBD, the prescription rule in article 15 of Law No. 873, which governs narcotic and psychotropic substances, is not applied to it here, and no medical route is stated.
Documentation
Not confirmed. No traveller, permit, import or customs rule is stated for CBD, because the drug law's permit rule in article 10 of Law No. 873 attaches to listed substances. Routes tried in this run: the Drug Control Agency's 2020 list page and its 2023.doc file, both answered HTTP 200; zakon.kz and spinform.ru copies of the resolution, both paywalled after the opening; the ncz.tj Criminal Code page, HTTP 200 but without the annex table; the ncz.tj Code files, HTTP 503 and 404; the prg.kz consolidation of the Code, HTTP 200 with the annex. Carried from the previous version of this cell: Not confirmed. The dossier row states no traveller, permit, import or customs rule for CBD. Its search record for this row, as the dossier gives it: Search record: searched «cbd»; transliteration/Latin identifier: cbd; searched Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, National List in Appendix 1, Table 1 by exact name, synonym and any stated salt, isomer or analogue rule. No outcome-safe exact or group entry for «cbd» was retained from the list text. Then searched Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1, list and sizes for «cbd» and the same identifiers; no quoted substance-specific quantity row was established. Second instrument checked: Criminal Code arts 200 to 204; it supplies consequences but did not settle the missing substance match. Open point: whether a different schedule synonym or group rule legally reaches cbd, and, if so, which quantity rule applies.
Papua New Guinea
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Controlled Substances Act 2021 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Papua New Guinea is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Papua New Guinea's drug schedule; the Controlled Substances Act 2021 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Papua New Guinea, drugs fall under the Controlled Substances Act 2021, which replaced the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 (whose penalties had been capped at around two years). The 2021 Act substantially increased the penalties for possession, dealing and trafficking, modelled on the imprisonment-based regimes of comparable Pacific and Commonwealth jurisdictions; Papua New Guinea repealed the death penalty in 2022, so the ceiling for all offences, drug offences included, is imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. The precise penalty quantities and section numbers under the 2021 Act are not pinned in this cell and should be confirmed against the current statute.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Papua New Guinea, drugs fall under the Controlled Substances Act 2021, which replaced the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 (whose penalties had been capped at around two years). The 2021 Act substantially increased the penalties for possession, dealing and trafficking, modelled on the imprisonment-based regimes of comparable Pacific and Commonwealth jurisdictions; Papua New Guinea repealed the death penalty in 2022, so the ceiling for all offences, drug offences included, is imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. The precise penalty quantities and section numbers under the 2021 Act are not pinned in this cell and should be confirmed against the current statute. Cannabis is controlled under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Controlled Substances Act 2021 (replacing the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952), specific penalty terms not pinned · reported by The National (thenational.com.pg, 2021) · Updated July 14, 2026
Angola
Legal status
Controlled through what it contains rather than under its own name. Cannabidiol is not named in the tables and it is not one of the tetrahydrocannabinol isomers enumerated in table II-B. The cannabis plant itself is in table I-C, so plant material remains a table I-C substance whatever cannabinoid is extracted from it, and Lei n.º 3/99 sets no threshold that makes low tetrahydrocannabinol material lawful..
Consequences if caught
Cannabidiol is not named in the tables and it is not one of the tetrahydrocannabinol isomers enumerated in table II-B. The cannabis plant itself is in table I-C, so plant material remains a table I-C substance whatever cannabinoid is extracted from it, and Lei n.º 3/99 sets no threshold that makes low tetrahydrocannabinol material lawful. Trafficking is article 4.º of Lei n.º 3/99. Article 4(1) covers cultivating, producing, manufacturing, offering, selling, distributing, buying, transporting, importing, exporting or unlawfully holding a substance in tables I to III, and reads 'é punido com pena de prisão maior de 8 a 12 anos', in translation that it is punished with major imprisonment of 8 to 12 years. The Supreme Court states the same range in its own words: in Proc. n.º 4790/20 of 14 September 2023 it wrote 'O crime de estupefaciente e outras actividades ilícitas é punido com a pena abstrata de 8 (oito) a 12 (doze) anos de prisão'. Acting against an authorisation actually granted raises that to 12 to 16 years under article 4(2). Where the unlawfulness of the act is considerably diminished, article 8 gives 2 to 8 years instead. Where the sole purpose of that conduct is to obtain the substance for personal use, article 9(1) reduces the sentence to up to 2 years and a corresponding fine, but article 9(3) withdraws that relief once the quantity exceeds what is needed for five days of average individual consumption. Personal use is a separate crime and it has not been decriminalised. Article 23(1) reads 'Aquele que ilicitamente consumir ou, para o seu consumo, cultivar, adquirir ou detiver plantas, substâncias ou preparações compreendidas nas tabelas I a IV, é punido com pena de prisão até três meses', in translation that consuming, or growing, buying or holding for one's own consumption a substance in tables I to IV is punished with imprisonment of up to three months. Article 23(2) raises that to up to 1 year where the quantity exceeds what is needed for three days of average individual consumption. Angola has no administrative commission and no possession threshold that makes the conduct lawful. Angola is a Portuguese model jurisdiction that has not followed Portugal's decriminalisation. No death penalty.
If prescribed / medical
No recognised medical use in Angola through the ordinary prescription channel. Lei n.º 3/99 punishes a doctor or pharmacist who supplies a listed substance for a non therapeutic purpose under article 10.
Documentation
Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Angola is outside the Schengen certificate scheme, so confirm import conditions for a controlled medicine with the Angolan authorities before travel.
Côte d'Ivoire
Legal status
Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Côte d'Ivoire is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Côte d'Ivoire's drug schedule; Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) · agp.africanlii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Rwanda
Legal status
Not confirmed, Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 (governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors) together with the Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Rwanda is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Rwanda's drug schedule; Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 (governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors) together with the Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Rwanda, drugs fall under Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, together with the Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018, Official Gazette 27/09/2018). The unlawful manufacture, transformation, import, transport, sale or distribution of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances is the serious tier, while use and possession sit at lower tiers; the 2018 Penal Code substantially raised drug-offence penalties, serious trafficking reaching long fixed-term to life imprisonment. The exact current Penal Code article year-terms are not separately pinned here, verify against the current Penal Code. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Rwanda, drugs fall under Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, together with the Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018, Official Gazette 27/09/2018). The unlawful manufacture, transformation, import, transport, sale or distribution of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances is the serious tier, while use and possession sit at lower tiers; the 2018 Penal Code substantially raised drug-offence penalties, serious trafficking reaching long fixed-term to life imprisonment. The exact current Penal Code article year-terms are not separately pinned here, verify against the current Penal Code. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is controlled under the same framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors + Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018, Official Gazette 27/09/2018) · rwandalii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Mozambique
Legal status
Not confirmed, Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Mozambique is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mozambique's drug schedule; Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mozambique, drugs fall under Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas), a six-table Portuguese-model statute. Trafficking, manufacture, import, export and distribution of controlled substances carry lengthy imprisonment, the ceiling being life imprisonment for the gravest cases. The precise trafficking-article number and terms are not separately pinned here, verify the exact article and term against the current statute. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mozambique, drugs fall under Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas), a six-table Portuguese-model statute. Trafficking, manufacture, import, export and distribution of controlled substances carry lengthy imprisonment, the ceiling being life imprisonment for the gravest cases. The precise trafficking-article number and terms are not separately pinned here, verify the exact article and term against the current statute. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas) · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Mauritius
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000, as amended) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Mauritius is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mauritius's drug schedule; the Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000, as amended) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mauritius, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000), as amended, a three-schedule system (Schedules I, II and III). Drug-dealing and trafficking offences (s.30 and s.29) carry a fine together with penal servitude (imprisonment); for a person averred to be a drug trafficker where the street value of the drugs exceeds one million rupees, the penalty is a fine of up to 2,000,000 rupees together with penal servitude for a term of up to 60 years. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment (penal servitude).
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mauritius, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000), as amended, a three-schedule system (Schedules I, II and III). Drug-dealing and trafficking offences (s.30 and s.29) carry a fine together with penal servitude (imprisonment); for a person averred to be a drug trafficker where the street value of the drugs exceeds one million rupees, the penalty is a fine of up to 2,000,000 rupees together with penal servitude for a term of up to 60 years. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment (penal servitude). Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000), as amended, ss.29-30 · health.govmu.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Bhutan
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Bhutan is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Bhutan's drug schedule; the Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Bhutan, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018), a six-schedule system. Illegal possession (s.137) and illicit trafficking (s.139, possessing, importing, exporting, storing, selling, purchasing, transporting, distributing or supplying Schedule I/II substances) are graded by quantity against the Schedule VII thresholds, with penalties set by reference to the sentencing tiers (felony degrees) of the Penal Code of Bhutan and ranging up to long fixed-term imprisonment. The exact year-terms keyed to those Penal Code felony-degree tiers are not separately pinned here, verify against the current Act and Penal Code. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Bhutan, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018), a six-schedule system. Illegal possession (s.137) and illicit trafficking (s.139, possessing, importing, exporting, storing, selling, purchasing, transporting, distributing or supplying Schedule I/II substances) are graded by quantity against the Schedule VII thresholds, with penalties set by reference to the sentencing tiers (felony degrees) of the Penal Code of Bhutan and ranging up to long fixed-term imprisonment. The exact year-terms keyed to those Penal Code felony-degree tiers are not separately pinned here, verify against the current Act and Penal Code. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018), ss.137/139 · oag.gov.bt · Updated July 14, 2026
Botswana
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Botswana is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Botswana's drug schedule; the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Botswana, drugs fall under the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018. Trafficking (s.5) carries imprisonment of up to 25 years together with a fine of up to P500,000, and cultivation (s.6) up to 20 years; the precise quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Botswana retains and uses the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes (murder, treason, piracy under the Penal Code); it does NOT extend to drug offences, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A 2024 government white paper reportedly recommended introducing a death penalty for drug trafficking; this was a recommendation only and has NOT been enacted; verify against the current statute. botswanalaws.com is a lead for the consolidated text only, never a cited source.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Botswana, drugs fall under the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018. Trafficking (s.5) carries imprisonment of up to 25 years together with a fine of up to P500,000, and cultivation (s.6) up to 20 years; the precise quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Botswana retains and uses the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes (murder, treason, piracy under the Penal Code); it does NOT extend to drug offences, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A 2024 government white paper reportedly recommended introducing a death penalty for drug trafficking; this was a recommendation only and has NOT been enacted; verify against the current statute. botswanalaws.com is a lead for the consolidated text only, never a cited source. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018, ss.5-6 · sherloc.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Zambia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Zambia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Zambia's drug schedule; the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Zambia, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021, which repealed the former Cap. 96 of 1993. Possession carries up to 15 years and trafficking up to 25 years; the precise quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Zambia retains the death penalty for murder and treason only and is abolitionist in practice (commutations in 2022); it does NOT extend to drug offences, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Zambia, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021, which repealed the former Cap. 96 of 1993. Possession carries up to 15 years and trafficking up to 25 years; the precise quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Zambia retains the death penalty for murder and treason only and is abolitionist in practice (commutations in 2022); it does NOT extend to drug offences, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021 (repealed Cap. 96 of 1993) · zambialii.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Cameroon
Legal status
Not confirmed, Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Cameroon is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Cameroon's drug schedule; Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Cameroon, drugs fall under Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997. Trafficking offences (Sections 91-95) carry imprisonment of 10 to 20 years together with a fine of up to 250,000,000 FCFA; cannabis, heroin and cocaine are high-risk drugs. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cameroon retains the death penalty for terrorism and murder and is abolitionist in practice (no executions since 1997); the drug statute does NOT provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. droitcamerounais.info and vertic.org are leads for the consolidated text only, never cited sources.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Cameroon, drugs fall under Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997. Trafficking offences (Sections 91-95) carry imprisonment of 10 to 20 years together with a fine of up to 250,000,000 FCFA; cannabis, heroin and cocaine are high-risk drugs. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cameroon retains the death penalty for terrorism and murder and is abolitionist in practice (no executions since 1997); the drug statute does NOT provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. droitcamerounais.info and vertic.org are leads for the consolidated text only, never cited sources. Cannabis is a high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997 (relative au contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs), Sections 91-95 · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Fiji
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Fiji is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Fiji's drug schedule; the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Fiji, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004. The unlawful import, export, manufacture, possession, supply or trafficking of illicit drugs (s.4) carries a fine of up to FJ$1,000,000 together with imprisonment up to life. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is life imprisonment. A March 2026 proposal to reintroduce the death penalty amid trafficking concerns was reported; it has NOT been enacted; verify against the current statute.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Fiji, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004. The unlawful import, export, manufacture, possession, supply or trafficking of illicit drugs (s.4) carries a fine of up to FJ$1,000,000 together with imprisonment up to life. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is life imprisonment. A March 2026 proposal to reintroduce the death penalty amid trafficking concerns was reported; it has NOT been enacted; verify against the current statute. Cannabis is an illicit drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004, s.4 · laws.gov.fj · Updated July 14, 2026
Liechtenstein
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Liechtenstein is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Liechtenstein's drug schedule; the Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Liechtenstein, drugs fall under the Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983, which follows the Austrian/Swiss model. Trafficking and the unlawful supply of narcotic drugs carry imprisonment; cannabis containing more than 1% THC is prohibited. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Liechtenstein, drugs fall under the Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983, which follows the Austrian/Swiss model. Trafficking and the unlawful supply of narcotic drugs carry imprisonment; cannabis containing more than 1% THC is prohibited. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis containing more than 1% THC is prohibited under the same Act, with no legal recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983 · gesetze.li · Updated July 14, 2026
Macau
Legal status
Not confirmed. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026 searched Law 17/2009 Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026, and established no specific matching table item for CBD. The dossier's reason: CBD is not the named delta-9-THC or delta-8-THC; botanical material needs its own facts. A row the dossier does not verify leaves the statutory assignment open and does not mean that use or supply is lawful.
Consequences if caught
Not confirmed. The dossier assigns no Law 17/2009 Article 8 or 14 penalty to CBD without a supported match in Tables I to IV and notes that other law may apply, so no penalty is stated for it here. It establishes no substance specific daily reference quantity and says not to infer a permitted amount.
If prescribed / medical
Not confirmed. The dossier does not state a prescription or medical route for CBD.
Documentation
Not confirmed, because the dossier records no table item for it. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: 大麻二酚; cannabidiol; CBD. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: No specific matching table item established for “大麻二酚; cannabidiol; CBD”. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name.
Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2 and 4 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · Updated October 3, 2026
Namibia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Namibia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Namibia's drug schedule; the Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Namibia, drugs fall under the Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971. Dealing in a dangerous dependence-producing drug (s.2) and possession (s.3) carry imprisonment together with a fine, case law has seen sentences of around 12 years for cocaine dealing, and cannabis possession or dealing draws fines and imprisonment of up to about 10 years; the precise trafficking-quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Namibia, drugs fall under the Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971. Dealing in a dangerous dependence-producing drug (s.2) and possession (s.3) carry imprisonment together with a fine, case law has seen sentences of around 12 years for cocaine dealing, and cannabis possession or dealing draws fines and imprisonment of up to about 10 years; the precise trafficking-quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a prohibited dependence-producing drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971, ss.2-3 · namiblii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Madagascar
Legal status
Not confirmed, Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Madagascar is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Madagascar's drug schedule; Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Madagascar, drugs fall under Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs, which classifies drugs across a six-table/high-risk model. Trafficking in a high-risk (Tableau I) drug carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Madagascar, drugs fall under Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs, which classifies drugs across a six-table/high-risk model. Trafficking in a high-risk (Tableau I) drug carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Burkina Faso
Legal status
Not confirmed, Burkina Faso's national drug code (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Burkina Faso is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Burkina Faso's drug schedule; Burkina Faso's national drug code (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Burkina Faso, drugs fall under the national drug code (loi sur les stupéfiants). Drug use is punishable by 1 to 6 months' imprisonment, and trafficking or import carries imprisonment; the precise trafficking article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Burkina Faso, drugs fall under the national drug code (loi sur les stupéfiants). Drug use is punishable by 1 to 6 months' imprisonment, and trafficking or import carries imprisonment; the precise trafficking article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Code des Drogues is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Benin is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Benin's drug schedule; the Code des Drogues is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Benin, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues. Cannabis, heroin and cocaine are classified as drogues à haut risque, and any export regardless of quantity is treated as trafficking; trafficking in a high-risk drug carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Benin, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues. Cannabis, heroin and cocaine are classified as drogues à haut risque, and any export regardless of quantity is treated as trafficking; trafficking in a high-risk drug carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a drogue à haut risque under the same Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Code des Drogues (Loi) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Mali
Legal status
Not confirmed, Mali's national drug law (loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Mali is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mali's drug schedule; Mali's national drug law (loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mali, drugs fall under the national drug law (loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Malian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mali, drugs fall under the national drug law (loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Malian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants · unodc.org · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ [primary statute portal pending] · Updated July 14, 2026
Togo
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Code des Drogues (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Togo is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Togo's drug schedule; the Code des Drogues (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Togo, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Togo, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Ordonnance of 1903 on chanvre (approved by the Décret of 10 March 1917) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the DR Congo is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the DR Congo's drug schedule; the Ordonnance of 1903 on chanvre (approved by the Décret of 10 March 1917) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, drugs fall under the Ordonnance of 1903 on chanvre (approved by the Décret of 10 March 1917), which prohibits the cultivation, sale, transport, possession and consumption of drugs. Trafficking offences carry 5 to 20 years' servitude pénale principale under Congolese penal doctrine; the precise trafficking article is left to confirmation against the current statute (the 1903/1917 ordinance is old and not granular). The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. The Democratic Republic of the Congo retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes, but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (servitude pénale).
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, drugs fall under the Ordonnance of 1903 on chanvre (approved by the Décret of 10 March 1917), which prohibits the cultivation, sale, transport, possession and consumption of drugs. Trafficking offences carry 5 to 20 years' servitude pénale principale under Congolese penal doctrine; the precise trafficking article is left to confirmation against the current statute (the 1903/1917 ordinance is old and not granular). The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. The Democratic Republic of the Congo retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes, but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (servitude pénale). Cannabis (chanvre) is the drug specifically prohibited by the same Ordonnance, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Ordonnance de 1903 sur le chanvre (approuvée par le Décret du 10 mars 1917) · leganet.cd · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Malawi
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 35:02) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Malawi is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Malawi's drug schedule; the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 35:02) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Malawi, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 35:02). Trafficking and the unlawful possession or supply of dangerous drugs carry imprisonment; the precise penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Malawi, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 35:02). Trafficking and the unlawful possession or supply of dangerous drugs carry imprisonment; the precise penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Lesotho is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Lesotho's drug schedule; the Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Lesotho, drugs fall under the Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Lesotho retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes and is abolitionist in practice; its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Lesotho, drugs fall under the Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Lesotho retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes and is abolitionist in practice; its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008 · lesotholii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Eswatini
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act (with Pharmacy Act provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Eswatini is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Eswatini's drug schedule; the Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act (with Pharmacy Act provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Eswatini, drugs fall under the Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act together with provisions of the Pharmacy Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise statute and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Eswatini retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes and is abolitionist in practice (no executions in decades); its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Eswatini, drugs fall under the Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act together with provisions of the Pharmacy Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise statute and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Eswatini retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes and is abolitionist in practice (no executions in decades); its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act / Pharmacy Act provisions · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Mauritania
Legal status
Not confirmed, Mauritania's national drug control statute (within a sharia-influenced criminal law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Mauritania is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mauritania's drug schedule; Mauritania's national drug control statute (within a sharia-influenced criminal law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mauritania, drugs fall under the national drug control statute within a sharia-influenced criminal law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty asserted for a drug offence under the named drug law is imprisonment. Not confirmed, Mauritania's criminal law is sharia-influenced and reportedly permits the death penalty for some trafficking offences, but a specific drug death-penalty statute article is not confirmed here. The country has observed a de facto execution moratorium since 1987. Verify against the current statute.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mauritania, drugs fall under the national drug control statute within a sharia-influenced criminal law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty asserted for a drug offence under the named drug law is imprisonment. Not confirmed, Mauritania's criminal law is sharia-influenced and reportedly permits the death penalty for some trafficking offences, but a specific drug death-penalty statute article is not confirmed here. The country has observed a de facto execution moratorium since 1987. Verify against the current statute. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Mauritania national drug control statute (sharia-influenced criminal law) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Sierra Leone
Legal status
Not confirmed, the National Drugs Control Act 2008 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Sierra Leone is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Sierra Leone's drug schedule; the National Drugs Control Act 2008 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Sierra Leone, drugs fall under the National Drugs Control Act 2008, which schedules drugs as Prohibited, High-Risk and Risk drugs. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise penalty bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Sierra Leone, drugs fall under the National Drugs Control Act 2008, which schedules drugs as Prohibited, High-Risk and Risk drugs. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise penalty bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
National Drugs Control Act 2008 · sierra-leone.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Seychelles
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Misuse of Drugs Act 2016 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Seychelles is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Seychelles' drug schedule; the Misuse of Drugs Act 2016 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Seychelles, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act 2016. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, with aggravated trafficking punishable by up to life imprisonment; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Seychelles, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act 2016. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, with aggravated trafficking punishable by up to life imprisonment; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Misuse of Drugs Act, 2016 · seylii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Cabo Verde
Legal status
Not confirmed, Lei n.º 78/IV/93 (the drug law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Cabo Verde is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Cabo Verde's drug schedule; Lei n.º 78/IV/93 (the drug law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Cabo Verde, drugs fall under Lei n.º 78/IV/93, which follows the Lusophone six-table model. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Cabo Verdean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Cabo Verde, drugs fall under Lei n.º 78/IV/93, which follows the Lusophone six-table model. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Cabo Verdean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lei n.º 78/IV/93 (Lusophone six-table model) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Gambia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the Gambia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Gambia's drug schedule; the Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Gambia, drugs fall under the Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Gambian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Gambia, drugs fall under the Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Gambian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Belize
Legal status
Not confirmed. Cannabidiol and CBD returned nothing in either file; Cannabinol, which is a different compound, returned nine occurrences in the subsidiary volume. The nearest printed entries are Cannabinol and Cannabinol derivatives in Schedule I paragraph 1(a), and the Act's definition of the second at section 2(1)(f). Cannabidiol is not cannabinol and is not a tetrahydro derivative or a 3-alkyl homologue of cannabinol, so the defined derivatives entry does not describe it. What is unresolved is the other route: the Act defines cannabis at section 2(1)(e) to include any part of the plant and any resin, and a cannabidiol extract of the plant may fall inside that definition rather than outside the schedules. The volume does not settle it. This row is the non-intoxicating cannabinoid, and its question is about the definition of cannabis rather than about the cannabinol entries. Nothing in this cell rests on an absence being the whole answer: the Misuse of Drugs Regulations are subsidiary law, and the list that decides whether a substance is a controlled drug at all is the Act's own Second Schedule, which section 4 divides into Parts I, II and III for Class A, Class B and Class C. That schedule is in the Substantive Laws volume of Chapter 103 and was not among the four instruments in the subsidiary volume read, so this row is left open rather than answered. The search recorded above covers the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, the Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations and the Industrial Hemp Regulations as the Revised Edition 2020 volume prints them, showing the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020, together with the 1990 Act text. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught
No penalty is stated for this row and that is deliberate. Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Those provisions bite on a controlled drug, and whether this substance is one was not established, so a penalty sentence would have nothing to attach to. What is established, and is worth carrying, is that the Act's trafficking penalties in section 17 of the 1990 text do not vary by class, while the ordinary possession maximum in section 27 does and is taken from a Third Schedule that was not read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
Kosovo
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) together with the Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Kosovo is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Kosovo's drug schedule; the Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) together with the Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Kosovo, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) together with the Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Kosovo, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) together with the Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) · Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors · gzk.rks-gov.net · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Timor-Leste
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Timor-Leste is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Timor-Leste's drug schedule; the Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Timor-Leste, drug trafficking falls under the Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles), backed by the country's adhesion to the UN 1988 Convention. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the Penal Code's maximum term is 30 years, with no life imprisonment; the precise drug-trafficking article and penalty bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Timor-Leste, drug trafficking falls under the Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles), backed by the country's adhesion to the UN 1988 Convention. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the Penal Code's maximum term is 30 years, with no life imprisonment; the precise drug-trafficking article and penalty bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles) · UN 1988 Convention (adhesion) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Eritrea
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Eritrea is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Eritrea's drug schedule; the Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Eritrea, drugs fall under the Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions), which grades drug trafficking by scale: small-scale trafficking carries 3 to 5 years, a commercial quantity 5 to 7 years, a large commercial quantity 7 to 10 years, and supply to a minor 16 to 19 years; personal-use possession is a lesser offence; the precise article is left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Eritrea retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes, but its Penal Code drug provisions do not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Eritrea, drugs fall under the Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions), which grades drug trafficking by scale: small-scale trafficking carries 3 to 5 years, a commercial quantity 5 to 7 years, a large commercial quantity 7 to 10 years, and supply to a minor 16 to 19 years; personal-use possession is a lesser offence; the precise article is left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Eritrea retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes, but its Penal Code drug provisions do not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Penal Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Somalia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Somalia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Somalia's drug schedule; the Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Somalia, drug offences fall under the Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised); Somalia has ratified the UN narcotic conventions but has no modern codified drug-control statute with quantified penalties, so the precise penalty is not cleanly pinned. The maximum penalty asserted under the named (dated) Penal Code is imprisonment; the specific penalty is left to confirmation against the current statute. Not confirmed, Somalia carries out executions for the gravest non-drug crimes, but no codified drug-death-penalty statute article is confirmed here; the 1964 Penal Code governs drug offences and its specific penalties are not confirmed. Verify against the current statute.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Somalia, drug offences fall under the Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised); Somalia has ratified the UN narcotic conventions but has no modern codified drug-control statute with quantified penalties, so the precise penalty is not cleanly pinned. The maximum penalty asserted under the named (dated) Penal Code is imprisonment; the specific penalty is left to confirmation against the current statute. Not confirmed, Somalia carries out executions for the gravest non-drug crimes, but no codified drug-death-penalty statute article is confirmed here; the 1964 Penal Code governs drug offences and its specific penalties are not confirmed. Verify against the current statute. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same dated Penal Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Congo
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Republic of the Congo's Penal Code drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the Republic of the Congo is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Republic of the Congo's drug schedule; the Republic of the Congo's Penal Code drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Republic of the Congo Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Burundi
Legal status
Not confirmed, Burundi's Penal Code 2009 drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Burundi is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Burundi's drug schedule; Burundi's Penal Code 2009 drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Burundi, drugs fall under the Penal Code 2009 drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Burundi, drugs fall under the Penal Code 2009 drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Burundi Penal Code 2009 drug provisions / loi sur les stupéfiants · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Djibouti
Legal status
Not confirmed, Djibouti's national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Djibouti is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Djibouti's drug schedule; Djibouti's national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Djibouti, drugs fall under the national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Djibouti, drugs fall under the national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Djibouti national drug law / Penal Code drug provisions · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Gabon
Legal status
Not confirmed, Gabon's Penal Code drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Gabon is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Gabon's drug schedule; Gabon's Penal Code drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Gabon, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Gabon, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Gabon Penal Code drug provisions / loi sur les stupéfiants · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Guinea
Legal status
Not confirmed, Guinea's drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN; Loi sur le contrôle des drogues) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Guinea is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Guinea's drug schedule; Guinea's drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN; Loi sur le contrôle des drogues) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Guinea, drugs fall under the national drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN; Loi sur le contrôle des drogues). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Guinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Guinea, drugs fall under the national drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN; Loi sur le contrôle des drogues). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Guinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Guinea drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN · Loi sur le contrôle des drogues) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Niger
Legal status
Not confirmed, Niger's drug law (Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Niger is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Niger's drug schedule; Niger's drug law (Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Niger, drugs fall under Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Nigerien drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Niger, drugs fall under Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Nigerien drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue (Niger) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Chad
Legal status
Not confirmed, Chad's drug law (Loi n° 31/PR/2018 / Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Chad is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Chad's drug schedule; Chad's drug law (Loi n° 31/PR/2018 / Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Chad, drugs fall under Loi n° 31/PR/2018 together with the Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Chadian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Chad, drugs fall under Loi n° 31/PR/2018 together with the Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Chadian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 31/PR/2018 / Penal Code drug provisions (Chad) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Central African Republic
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Central African Republic's Penal Code drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the Central African Republic is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Central African Republic's drug schedule; the Central African Republic's Penal Code drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Central African Republic, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Central African drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Central African Republic, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Central African drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Central African Republic Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Liberia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014 (as amended in 2022) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Liberia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Liberia's drug schedule; the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014 (as amended in 2022) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Liberia, drugs fall under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014, as amended in 2022 to reclassify drug offences as a first-degree felony. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Liberia retains the death penalty in law for the gravest non-drug crimes (it has not carried out an execution in decades and has acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Liberia, drugs fall under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014, as amended in 2022 to reclassify drug offences as a first-degree felony. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Liberia retains the death penalty in law for the gravest non-drug crimes (it has not carried out an execution in decades and has acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014 (as amended 2022) (Liberia) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Equatorial Guinea
Legal status
Not confirmed, Equatorial Guinea's Penal Code 2022 drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Equatorial Guinea is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Equatorial Guinea's drug schedule; Equatorial Guinea's Penal Code 2022 drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Equatorial Guinea, drugs fall under the Penal Code 2022 drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Equatoguinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Equatorial Guinea, drugs fall under the Penal Code 2022 drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Equatoguinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Equatorial Guinea Penal Code 2022 drug provisions / national drug law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Guinea-Bissau
Legal status
Not confirmed, Guinea-Bissau's drug-control law (Lei n.º 7/2008) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Guinea-Bissau is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Guinea-Bissau's drug schedule; Guinea-Bissau's drug-control law (Lei n.º 7/2008) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Guinea-Bissau, drugs fall under Lei n.º 7/2008 (the national drug-control law); the country is a known trans-shipment state. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Bissau-Guinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Guinea-Bissau, drugs fall under Lei n.º 7/2008 (the national drug-control law); the country is a known trans-shipment state. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Bissau-Guinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lei n.º 7/2008 / Guinea-Bissau national drug-control law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Comoros
Legal status
Not confirmed, Comoros' national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Comoros is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Comoros' drug schedule; Comoros' national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Comoros, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Comorian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Comoros, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Comorian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Comoros Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
South Sudan
Legal status
CBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as a 'dangerous drug' under Chapter XXVI of the Penal Code Act, 2008, cannabis and its preparations, with no CBD exemption or THC threshold; there is no legal consumer CBD.
Consequences if caught
Unlawful possession or use of a dangerous drug (Art. 384) is a criminal offence carrying imprisonment and/or a fine; high-level/aggravated trafficking is capital-eligible, so CBD-specific capital exposure is left to confirmation.
If prescribed / medical
There is no CBD prescription scheme.
Documentation
No documentation legalises CBD, a controlled dangerous drug, with no prescription route.
Not confirmed, the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 12) (Vanuatu) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Vanuatu is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Vanuatu's drug schedule; the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 12) (Vanuatu) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Vanuatu, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 12). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Ni-Vanuatu drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Vanuatu, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 12). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Ni-Vanuatu drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Narcotics Act 1967 (Samoa) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Samoa is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Samoa's drug schedule; the Narcotics Act 1967 (Samoa) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Samoa, drugs fall under the Narcotics Act 1967. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Samoan drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Samoa, drugs fall under the Narcotics Act 1967. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Samoan drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 98) (Solomon Islands) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Solomon Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Solomon Islands' drug schedule; the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 98) (Solomon Islands) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Solomon Islands, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 98). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Solomon Islands drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Solomon Islands, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 98). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Solomon Islands drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Andorra's Penal Code (Codi Penal) drug-trafficking provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Andorra is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Andorra's drug schedule; Andorra's Penal Code (Codi Penal) drug-trafficking provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Andorra, drugs fall under the Penal Code (Codi Penal) drug-trafficking provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Andorran drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Andorra, drugs fall under the Penal Code (Codi Penal) drug-trafficking provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Andorran drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Penal Code provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Monaco's drug law (Penal Code / Loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Monaco is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Monaco's drug schedule; Monaco's drug law (Penal Code / Loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Monaco, drugs fall under the Penal Code together with the Loi sur les stupéfiants. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Monégasque drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Monaco, drugs fall under the Penal Code together with the Loi sur les stupéfiants. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Monégasque drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Monaco Penal Code / Loi sur les stupéfiants · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
San Marino
Legal status
Not confirmed, San Marino's Penal Code drug provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in San Marino is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against San Marino's drug schedule; San Marino's Penal Code drug provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In San Marino, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Sammarinese drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In San Marino, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Sammarinese drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is controlled under the same provisions, with a regulated medical-cannabis regime permitted while recreational supply remains prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
San Marino Penal Code drug provisions · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Cook Islands
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Cook Islands' Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the Cook Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Cook Islands' drug schedule; the Cook Islands' Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Cook Islands, drugs fall under the Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Cook Islands, drugs fall under the Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004 (Cook Islands) · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Nauru
Legal status
Not confirmed, Nauru's drug law (Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 / Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Nauru is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Nauru's drug schedule; Nauru's drug law (Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 / Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Nauru, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 together with the Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Nauru, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 together with the Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 / Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions (Nauru) · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Palau
Legal status
Not confirmed, Palau's National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Palau is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Palau's drug schedule; Palau's National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Palau, drugs fall under the National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Palau, drugs fall under the National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Title 34 provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Palau National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Tonga
Legal status
Not confirmed, Tonga's Illicit Drugs Control Act (as amended in 2020 and 2021) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Tonga is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Tonga's drug schedule; Tonga's Illicit Drugs Control Act (as amended in 2020 and 2021) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Tonga, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act, as amended in 2020 and 2021. The 2020 amendment toughened penalties (modelled on New Zealand's drug law); trafficking and serious offences carry up to life imprisonment, and the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (up to life). Tonga retains the death penalty in law for murder and treason under the Criminal Offences Act (abolitionist in practice, no execution since 1982), but its drug legislation does NOT provide a death penalty: a 2021 bill to extend the death penalty to serious drug trafficking was debated and REJECTED by the Legislative Assembly (the death-penalty provisions were withdrawn before the Illicit Drugs Control Bill passed 19-0), and a 2004 proposal to add the death penalty for drug possession was likewise defeated. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (up to life).
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Tonga, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act, as amended in 2020 and 2021. The 2020 amendment toughened penalties (modelled on New Zealand's drug law); trafficking and serious offences carry up to life imprisonment, and the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (up to life). Tonga retains the death penalty in law for murder and treason under the Criminal Offences Act (abolitionist in practice, no execution since 1982), but its drug legislation does NOT provide a death penalty: a 2021 bill to extend the death penalty to serious drug trafficking was debated and REJECTED by the Legislative Assembly (the death-penalty provisions were withdrawn before the Illicit Drugs Control Bill passed 19-0), and a 2004 proposal to add the death penalty for drug possession was likewise defeated. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (up to life). [reported, NOT enacted] A 2021 private member's bill proposed a mandatory death sentence for trafficking 5 kg or more of a Class A drug; it was rejected and is NOT law. Verify against the current statute. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Illicit Drugs Control Act (as amended 2020 and 2021) (Tonga) · Updated July 14, 2026
Kiribati
Legal status
Not confirmed, Kiribati's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Kiribati is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Kiribati's drug schedule; Kiribati's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Kiribati, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Kiribati, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Tuvalu is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Tuvalu's drug schedule; Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Marshall Islands Revised Code (Title 25 / controlled-substances provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the Marshall Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Marshall Islands' drug schedule; the Marshall Islands Revised Code (Title 25 / controlled-substances provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Marshall Islands, drugs fall under the Revised Code, Title 25 (controlled-substances provisions). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Marshall Islands, drugs fall under the Revised Code, Title 25 (controlled-substances provisions). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the FSM Code Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Micronesia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Micronesia's drug schedule; the FSM Code Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Micronesia (the Federated States of Micronesia), drugs fall under the FSM Code, Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Micronesia (the Federated States of Micronesia), drugs fall under the FSM Code, Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
FSM Code Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Suriname
Legal status
Not confirmed. Isolated cannabidiol is not named on either list, and the entry nearest to it does not reach it, although the plant it is extracted from is separately controlled. The text read for this cell is the consolidation that stops at S.B. 2002 no. 68, so it is twenty four years old. Article 3 lid 2 lets further middelen be designated by Staatsbesluit and article 3 lid 3 lets the Minister designate one at short notice with the approval of the Procureur-Generaal, and article 4 lid 2 does the same for lijst II. No register of those designations was located, so anything added since 2002 is outside what was read and this does not rule out a later designation.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. This act carries no death penalty and its heaviest sentence is levenslange gevangenisstraf, life imprisonment, under article 11 lid 1. Searched as 'cannabidiol', 'CBD' and 'hennep'. The first two return nothing. The argument that footnote 10 to 'Tetrahydrocannabinol' could reach cannabidiol, because the two share the formula C21H30O2, is rejected here: the footnote extends a named substance to its isomers, and cannabidiol is not a tetrahydrocannabinol at all but a different compound that happens to have the same formula, so the entry has nothing to extend. The plant route is the one that matters in practice and it is firm. Lijst II onderdeel B defines hennep as elk deel van de plant van het geslacht Cannabis waaraan de hars nog niet is onttrokken, every part of a plant of the genus Cannabis from which the resin has not yet been extracted, onverschillig welke de benaming in de handel ook zij, whatever it is called in trade. That definition sets no tetrahydrocannabinol threshold, so hemp flower sold lawfully elsewhere as a cannabidiol product is hennep here. An oil or an extract containing hemp resin falls instead under the closing clause of lijst I onderdeel A. Only a pure isolate containing no plant material and no resin escapes both, and that is the narrow case this row is unable to resolve. One structural point governs how far an entry reaches. Only lijst I onderdeel A closes with the isomer, ester, ether and salt clauses; lijst I onderdeel B closes with an isomer and salt clause; and lijst I onderdeel C, lijst I onderdeel D and both parts of lijst II onderdeel A close with a single sentence, 'Preparaten die één of meer van vorengenoemde substanties bevatten', preparations containing one or more of the substances named above, and nothing else. There is no analogue limb and no definition by effect anywhere in the act. No offence in this act attaches to a middel that is not on lijst I or lijst II and has not been designated under article 3 lid 2, article 3 lid 3 or article 4 lid 2, because every prohibition in articles 3 and 4 is framed by reference to those lists and those designations, and the act contains no analogue limb and no definition by effect. If a designation has been made, the bands are the ones the act sets for the list the substance is put on. On lijst I, possession and use are article 3 lid 1 under C and carry at most thirteen years under article 11 lid 3, while supply, manufacture and the import, export and transit limb carry levenslange gevangenisstraf under article 11 lid 1. On lijst II, supply, possession and manufacture all carry at most thirteen years under article 11 lid 3 and only the import, export and transit limb carries levenslange gevangenisstraf. Because no register of designations was read, a reader cannot be told which of those applies, and that is why this row is left unresolved rather than reported as permitted.
North Korea
Legal status
CBD (cannabidiol) has no lawful consumer framework in North Korea, narcotics are controlled under the DPRK Criminal Law, and while cannabis's domestic status is opaque and inconsistently enforced, there is no legal CBD supplement or medical route; the precise cannabis-scheduling of CBD is left to confirmation.
Consequences if caught
Drug offences fall under the Criminal Law with arbitrary and potentially severe enforcement (labour/imprisonment); there is no reliable published cannabis-specific penalty.
If prescribed / medical
There is no CBD/Epidiolex prescription scheme.
Documentation
No documentation framework exists for CBD; there is no lawful route.
Not confirmed, the applicable Palestinian penal law (Gaza Strip military orders / West Bank Palestinian Authority framework) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the State of Palestine is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the State of Palestine's drug schedule; the applicable Palestinian penal law (Gaza Strip military orders / West Bank Palestinian Authority framework) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the State of Palestine, drug law differs by territory. In the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip, serious drug trafficking is a capital offence under military orders, and Gaza courts have sentenced people to death for drug trafficking (for example, four death sentences in 2022) with executions carried out. In the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority applies a different framework and maintains a longstanding execution moratorium. Harm Reduction International's 2023 Global Overview lists the State of Palestine among states retaining the death penalty for drug offences. The precise governing instrument and article are left to confirmation against the current law in each territory. [jurisdiction-split] Capital drug provisions are associated with the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip; the West Bank / Palestinian Authority framework differs and maintains an execution moratorium. Verify against the current governing law in each territory. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor (loc.gov) and the UNODC legal database, with Harm Reduction International as a corroborating record.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the State of Palestine, drug law differs by territory. In the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip, serious drug trafficking is a capital offence under military orders, and Gaza courts have sentenced people to death for drug trafficking (for example, four death sentences in 2022) with executions carried out. In the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority applies a different framework and maintains a longstanding execution moratorium. Harm Reduction International's 2023 Global Overview lists the State of Palestine among states retaining the death penalty for drug offences. The precise governing instrument and article are left to confirmation against the current law in each territory. [jurisdiction-split] Capital drug provisions are associated with the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip; the West Bank / Palestinian Authority framework differs and maintains an execution moratorium. Verify against the current governing law in each territory. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor (loc.gov) and the UNODC legal database, with Harm Reduction International as a corroborating record. Cannabis is a controlled drug, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Antigua and Barbuda
Legal status
Controlled. It reads as a Class B cannabis derivative, and no percentage saves it. No entry names it, and it is reached by a rule the Act itself prints rather than by analogy. The route runs to Part II of the First Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Act, Cap. 283, the Class B list.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No provision of the Misuse of Drugs Act, Cap. 283 imposes a capital penalty. The heaviest term printed anywhere in it is 14 years, in the General column of the Second Schedule against section 10, and section 26 gives 10 years on conviction on indictment for import or export of a Class A or Class B drug. Cannabidiol is not named and the Act prints no THC threshold, no percentage and no hemp exemption anywhere. The route is the section 2 definition of cannabis, which includes 'any part or portion of the plant known as cannabis sativa, and in whatever form, its preparations, resin, derivatives and similar synthetic preparations'. Cannabidiol is a derivative of that plant and is within those words. The Part IV cannabinol derivatives route does not reach it, because cannabidiol is an open ring isomer and not a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol, so unlike delta-8-THC this row has only the Class B reading and not both. This Part placement is not printed in the dossier quotation, which cites only 'First Schedule, Parts I to III' as a search scope; it is read from the Act's own First Schedule. The First Schedule is printed in two columns, so the class is taken from the entry's position within its Part and not from the line it shares with the facing column. The Second Schedule gives the punishments, under section 25. Possession under section 6(2) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years and a fine of not less than 5,000 dollars and not exceeding 200,000 dollars, and on conviction on indictment 7 years and a fine. Production under section 5(2) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years and a fine of not less than 20,000 dollars and not exceeding 500,000 dollars, and on indictment 7 years and a fine. Supplying or offering to supply under section 5(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years and a fine of not less than 200,000 dollars and not exceeding 500,000 dollars, so printed in the Class B column where the Class A and Class C columns of the same row read 20,000 dollars, and on indictment 7 years and a fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 6(3) takes the same summary figures as section 5(3) and 7 years and a fine on indictment. Import and export are dealt with by section 26: on summary conviction a penalty of six times the value of the goods or not less than 20,000 dollars and not exceeding 200,000 dollars, whichever is the greater, together with 12 months, and on conviction on indictment a pecuniary penalty of such amount as the court may determine together with 10 years. The class decides less here than in the United Kingdom Act this one follows. Production, supply and possession carry the same summary figures for Class A, Class B and Class C, and the classes separate only on the indictment limb and on the money figures and the maximum for import and export. This is stated from the consolidated text of Cap. 283 in the Revised Edition of the Laws of Antigua and Barbuda, whose printed amendment list runs 21 of 1973, 5 of 1975, 10 of 1979, 9 of 1982, 11 of 1987 and 18 of 1989, read on 22 September 2026. Section 3(2) provides that the Minister may by Order make such amendments to the First Schedule or any part thereof as may be necessary, so an Order made after that consolidation is not excluded by this cell.
Barbados
Legal status
Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it, and the consequence is that it is not a controlled drug within section 3. The compound has no row of its own, and the closed isomer list in Part II reaches only tetrahydro isomers and their stereochemical variants, which this is not. The route that does reach it is botanical rather than chemical: section 2 defines the plant limb to include «any part of that plant by whatever name it may be designated», so plant material remains controlled however it is described, while an isolated non tetrahydro cannabinoid has no placement of its own. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. The live exposure is not the compound but the material it came in. Plant material remains within the section 2 definition however it is labelled, and the cannabis row carries a fifteen gramme figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule, so a bottle of plant extract can put a person inside a threshold that the isolate itself would never engage. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical
Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The section 12 regulations do not reach the isolated compound, but they do reach the plant material it is extracted from, because section 2 defines the plant limb to include any part of the plant. A traveller carrying a plant derived preparation is therefore in a materially different position from one carrying a synthesised isolate, and the label on the bottle will not settle which they have. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Dominica
Legal status
Not confirmed. No entry for CBD was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07, on a reading of the three complete printed lists as page images at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages. Two printed texts bear on this row and neither reaches isolated cannabidiol. The Class B entry is «Cannabis and cannabis resin», and section 2 defines cannabis as any plant of the genus Cannabis or any part of it, so it is plant material and an isolated compound is not plant material. Part IV defines «cannabinol derivatives» as tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives; cannabidiol is an open ring compound and is neither of those two things. So the plant route and the derivative route close for different reasons and cannabidiol as an isolate is left unplaced. The absence is bounded by that revision and by nothing further: section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, Orders of that kind are published separately, and this consolidation reproduces none made after the note its Schedule pages carry. So about thirty five years of possible additions sit outside what was read, and that gap is why this row is left open here rather than published as a finding that the substance is uncontrolled in Dominica.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. No penalty limb is assigned to this row, because no placement was established and a ceiling carried across from a neighbouring row would be an invention. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances: more than two grammes of diacetylmorphine, one gramme of cocaine, fifty-five grammes of opium, three grammes of morphine, and for cannabis or cannabis resin twenty-eight grammes, a figure the 1991 consolidation prints as fifteen and which Act No. 16 of 2020 raised, and CBD is not among the five, so no quantity presumption could attach to it even if an Order were later to place it. If such an Order or an analytical identification were to bring this material within Part I, section 7(2) would carry eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment and section 7(3) three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment; within Part II or Part III the figures would be the Class B or Class C columns of the Fourth Schedule instead. None of that is asserted here. The Act's true ceiling is not in the Fourth Schedule either: section 16(2) and section 16(5) carry imprisonment for life on conviction on indictment, and a mandatory minimum of seven years on summary conviction, for a drug trafficking offence or possession for the purpose of drug trafficking committed in a school, prison or military premises or with violence, official corruption or a child carrier. Both limbs are keyed to a controlled drug as section 4(1)(a) defines it, so neither can attach to a row that no printed entry places. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding. The nearest printed text read and rejected for this row was the Class B entry «Cannabis and cannabis resin» and the Part IV definition of «cannabinol derivatives».
Grenada
Legal status
Not listed in the First Schedule to the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A, as that schedule stands as at SRO 16 of 2011. Isolated cannabidiol is not an entry, though a product containing cannabis or THC is caught by the preparation paragraphs. Section 3(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by Order subject to affirmative resolution, so the printed schedule is not the last word and no Order later than SRO 16 of 2011 was read here.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Searched as 'cannabidiol', 'CBD' and 'hemp'. The first two return nothing; the third returns only 'CANNABIS (Indian Hemp) and Cannabis resin (Resin of Indian Hemp)' at Part I, which is the plant and the resin rather than an isolated cannabinoid. The distinction that matters for a traveller is between an isolate and a full spectrum product: Part I paragraph 5 catches any preparation or other product containing cannabis or cannabis resin, and Part II paragraph 4 catches one containing THC. Section 3(1) defines a controlled drug exhaustively as a narcotic drug listed in Part I of the First Schedule, a psychotropic substance listed in Part II, or a listed substance listed in Part III. There is no analogue limb and no definition by effect. No offence in this act reaches it, because every offence in Parts II to V is framed in relation to a controlled drug and section 3(1) confines that expression to the three Parts of the First Schedule. The Part of the First Schedule named in this cell is read from the act itself and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the schedule only as Parts I to IV.
If prescribed / medical
Not a controlled drug under this act, so the section 12 and section 24 prescription machinery for controlled drugs does not reach CBD. Whether it is regulated as a medicine or as a consumer product under Grenada's separate pharmacy and medicines law was not established here.
Documentation
No controlled drug documentation requirement arises under this act, because the substance is outside it. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.
Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A of the Laws of Grenada, Act No. 7 of 1992 as amended by SRO 16 of 2011, sections 2, 3, 6, 12, 18, 21, 24 and 37, the First Schedule Parts I to IV, the Second Schedule and the Fifth Schedule, read as at SRO 16 of 2011 · laws.gov.gd · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Legal status
Not confirmed, Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Saint Kitts and Nevis is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Saint Kitts and Nevis's drug schedule; Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Saint Kitts and Nevis, drugs fall under Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Saint Kitts and Nevis retains the death penalty in law for murder (abolitionist in practice), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Saint Kitts and Nevis, drugs fall under Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Saint Kitts and Nevis retains the death penalty in law for murder (abolitionist in practice), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Saint Lucia
Legal status
Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms CBD, cannabidiol and diol all return zero across the whole act. Cannabidiol is not cannabinol and it is not a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol, so it falls outside both limbs of the Part IV definition of 'cannabinol derivatives', which reads 'tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives'. The isolate is outside the schedule and the plant material is not. Section 2 defines 'cannabis' as 'any plant of the genus cannabis or any part of any such plant (by whatever name designated)', so CBD flower, trim and whole plant extract are cannabis whatever their cannabidiol content, and the act prints no tetrahydrocannabinol threshold and no hemp exception at all. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Cannabidiol is not cannabinol and it is not a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol, so it falls outside both limbs of the Part IV definition of 'cannabinol derivatives', which reads 'tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives'. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical
Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation
The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Legal status
Not confirmed, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Saint Vincent and the Grenadines's drug schedule; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, drugs fall under Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines retains the death penalty in law for murder (abolitionist in practice), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, drugs fall under Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines retains the death penalty in law for murder (abolitionist in practice), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Haiti
Legal status
Not confirmed, Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Haiti is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Haiti's drug schedule; Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Haiti, drugs fall under Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Haiti, drugs fall under Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Sao Tome and Principe
Legal status
Not confirmed, Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Sao Tome and Principe is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Sao Tome and Principe's drug schedule; Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Sao Tome and Principe, drugs fall under Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Sao Tome and Principe, drugs fall under Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Holy See
Legal status
Not confirmed, Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the Holy See is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Holy See's drug schedule; Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Holy See, drugs fall under Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Vatican City is a very small jurisdiction with minimal independent drug caselaw; this cell asserts controlled status conservatively, and the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Holy See, drugs fall under Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Vatican City is a very small jurisdiction with minimal independent drug caselaw; this cell asserts controlled status conservatively, and the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Puerto Rico (US)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Puerto Rico's Controlled Substances Act (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Puerto Rico is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Puerto Rico's drug schedule; Puerto Rico's Controlled Substances Act (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Puerto Rico, drugs fall under the Controlled Substances Act of Puerto Rico (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA), the territory's own statute, distinct from the US federal Controlled Substances Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Puerto Rico, drugs fall under the Controlled Substances Act of Puerto Rico (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA), the territory's own statute, distinct from the US federal Controlled Substances Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Cannabis is controlled under the same Act with a regulated medical-cannabis exception: medical cannabis is legal for registered patients under Puerto Rico's 2015 medical-cannabis law, while recreational use, sale and cultivation remain prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Controlled Substances Act of Puerto Rico (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA) · 2015 medical-cannabis law · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Guam (US)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Guam's Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Guam is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Guam's drug schedule; Guam's Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Guam, drugs fall under the Guam Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67), the territory's own statute. Trafficking and unlicensed supply carry imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Guam Compiler of Laws (guamcourts.gov) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Guam, drugs fall under the Guam Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67), the territory's own statute. Trafficking and unlicensed supply carry imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Guam Compiler of Laws (guamcourts.gov) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: it is legal for adults 21 and over under the Guam Cannabis Industry Act of 2019, alongside the medical-cannabis programme (Public Law 34-80), with a regulated retail market; sale outside the licensed system remains an offence. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Guam Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67) · Guam Cannabis Industry Act of 2019 · Public Law 34-80 (medical cannabis) · guamcourts.gov · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the U.S. Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the U.S. Virgin Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the U.S. Virgin Islands' drug schedule; the U.S. Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the U.S. Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal-possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances) · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019 · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Northern Mariana Islands (US)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Northern Mariana Islands' Commonwealth controlled-substances code is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the Northern Mariana Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Northern Mariana Islands' drug schedule; the Northern Mariana Islands' Commonwealth controlled-substances code is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Northern Mariana Islands, drugs fall under the Commonwealth's own controlled-substances code. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Northern Mariana Islands, drugs fall under the Commonwealth's own controlled-substances code. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: it is legal for adults 21 and over under the Taulamwaar Sensible CNMI Cannabis Act of 2018, which authorizes personal possession, cultivation and a regulated adult-use market; no separate medical-cannabis programme is authorized, and sale outside the licensed system remains an offence. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Taulamwaar Sensible CNMI Cannabis Act of 2018 · Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands controlled-substances code · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
American Samoa (US)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the American Samoa Code Annotated (Title 13) controlled-substances provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in American Samoa is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against American Samoa's drug schedule; the American Samoa Code Annotated (Title 13) controlled-substances provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In American Samoa, drugs fall under the American Samoa Code Annotated (Title 13) controlled-substances provisions, the territory's own statute, among the harshest of any US jurisdiction. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In American Samoa, drugs fall under the American Samoa Code Annotated (Title 13) controlled-substances provisions, the territory's own statute, among the harshest of any US jurisdiction. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Title 13 provisions, fully prohibited with no medical or recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
American Samoa Code Annotated Title 13 (controlled substances) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Bermuda (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Bermuda's Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Bermuda is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Bermuda's drug schedule; Bermuda's Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Bermuda, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended), Bermuda's own statute. Supply, cultivation and trafficking carry imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Bermuda statute portal (bpa.bm) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Bermuda, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended), Bermuda's own statute. Supply, cultivation and trafficking carry imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Bermuda statute portal (bpa.bm) with Library of Congress corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Bermuda Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended by the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2017) · bpa.bm · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Cayman Islands (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Cayman Islands' Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the Cayman Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Cayman Islands' drug schedule; the Cayman Islands' Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Cayman Islands, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision), the territory's own statute, enforced with a zero-tolerance import policy. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Cayman Islands legislation portal (legislation.gov.ky) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Cayman Islands, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision), the territory's own statute, enforced with a zero-tolerance import policy. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Cayman Islands legislation portal (legislation.gov.ky) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: medical cannabis and CBD products are permitted only on local prescription (since 2017), while recreational cannabis is fully prohibited under zero-tolerance enforcement, possession carries a fine up to CI$3,000 and up to 3 years' imprisonment, and importation a fine up to CI$20,000 and up to 7 years on first conviction. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Cayman Islands Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision) · legislation.gov.ky · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Gibraltar (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Gibraltar is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Gibraltar's drug schedule; Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: recreational cannabis is illegal, while medical cannabis has been permitted since October 2019 under prescription; sale and cultivation outside the medical framework remain prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the British Virgin Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the British Virgin Islands' drug schedule; the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Turks and Caicos Islands' Control of Drugs Ordinance is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the Turks and Caicos Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Turks and Caicos Islands' drug schedule; the Turks and Caicos Islands' Control of Drugs Ordinance is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Turks and Caicos Islands, drugs fall under the Control of Drugs Ordinance, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Turks and Caicos Islands, drugs fall under the Control of Drugs Ordinance, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Cannabis and cannabis resin are Class B controlled drugs (Part II) under the same Ordinance, fully prohibited with no medical or recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Turks and Caicos Islands Control of Drugs Ordinance · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Jersey is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Jersey's drug schedule; the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Jersey, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978, the Bailiwick's own statute, built on the UK-model Class A/B/C system. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Jersey Legal Information Board (jerseylaw.je) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Jersey, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978, the Bailiwick's own statute, built on the UK-model Class A/B/C system. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Jersey Legal Information Board (jerseylaw.je) with Library of Congress corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978 · jerseylaw.je · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Misuse of Drugs (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 1974 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Guernsey is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Guernsey's drug schedule; the Misuse of Drugs (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 1974 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Guernsey, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 1974, the Bailiwick's own statute, built on the UK-model Class A/B/C system. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via Guernsey Legal Resources (guernseylegalresources.gg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Guernsey, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 1974, the Bailiwick's own statute, built on the UK-model Class A/B/C system. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via Guernsey Legal Resources (guernseylegalresources.gg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Isle of Man's Misuse of Drugs Act is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the Isle of Man is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Isle of Man's drug schedule; the Isle of Man's Misuse of Drugs Act is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Isle of Man, drugs fall under the Island's own Misuse of Drugs Act, which replicates the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Schedule 2 Classes A/B/C, administered by the Island's own ACMD). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Isle of Man Government legislation portal (gov.im) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Isle of Man, drugs fall under the Island's own Misuse of Drugs Act, which replicates the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Schedule 2 Classes A/B/C, administered by the Island's own ACMD). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Isle of Man Government legislation portal (gov.im) with Library of Congress corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Isle of Man Misuse of Drugs Act (Schedule 2 Classes A/B/C) · gov.im · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Montserrat (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Montserrat's Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Montserrat is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Montserrat's drug schedule; Montserrat's Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Montserrat, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act/Ordinance, a UK-model statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Montserrat, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act/Ordinance, a UK-model statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Montserrat Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act / Ordinance · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Anguilla (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Anguilla is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Anguilla's drug schedule; the Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Anguilla, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla), a UK-model statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Anguilla, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla), a UK-model statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla) · cannabis decriminalization effective 1 December 2024 · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Aruba (Netherlands)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Aruba's Criminal Code and narcotics (opium) ordinance is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Aruba is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Aruba's drug schedule; Aruba's Criminal Code and narcotics (opium) ordinance is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Aruba, drugs fall under Aruba's own Criminal Code and narcotics (opium) ordinance, Aruba has been an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1986 and, unlike the European Netherlands, operates NO coffeeshop tolerance. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Aruba, drugs fall under Aruba's own Criminal Code and narcotics (opium) ordinance, Aruba has been an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1986 and, unlike the European Netherlands, operates NO coffeeshop tolerance. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Curaçao's Opium Ordinance is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Curaçao is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Curaçao's drug schedule; Curaçao's Opium Ordinance is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Curaçao, drugs fall under Curaçao's own Opium Ordinance, distinct from the European Netherlands' tolerance regime. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, and cocaine/heroin/MDMA offences draw severe sentences; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current ordinance. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Curaçao, drugs fall under Curaçao's own Opium Ordinance, distinct from the European Netherlands' tolerance regime. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, and cocaine/heroin/MDMA offences draw severe sentences; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current ordinance. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Sint Maarten's Opium National Ordinance of 1960 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Sint Maarten is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Sint Maarten's drug schedule; Sint Maarten's Opium National Ordinance of 1960 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Sint Maarten, drugs fall under the Opium National Ordinance of 1960, covering both hard and soft drugs. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current ordinance. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Sint Maarten, drugs fall under the Opium National Ordinance of 1960, covering both hard and soft drugs. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current ordinance. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Sint Maarten Opium National Ordinance of 1960 · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
French Polynesia (France)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in French Polynesia is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in French Polynesia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against French Polynesia's drug schedule; the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in French Polynesia is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In French Polynesia, drugs fall under the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in the territory (with local island variation in enforcement). Trafficking carries up to 30 years' imprisonment and a fine up to EUR 150,000 under the French penalty structure; the precise classification is left to confirmation against the current Code. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via Légifrance (legifrance.gouv.fr) and the Library of Congress with UNODC corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In French Polynesia, drugs fall under the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in the territory (with local island variation in enforcement). Trafficking carries up to 30 years' imprisonment and a fine up to EUR 150,000 under the French penalty structure; the precise classification is left to confirmation against the current Code. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via Légifrance (legifrance.gouv.fr) and the Library of Congress with UNODC corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) applied in French Polynesia · legifrance.gouv.fr · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
New Caledonia (France)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in New Caledonia is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in New Caledonia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against New Caledonia's drug schedule; the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in New Caledonia is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In New Caledonia, drugs fall under the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in the territory. Trafficking carries up to 30 years' imprisonment and a fine up to EUR 150,000 under the French penalty structure; the precise classification is left to confirmation against the current Code. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In New Caledonia, drugs fall under the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in the territory. Trafficking carries up to 30 years' imprisonment and a fine up to EUR 150,000 under the French penalty structure; the precise classification is left to confirmation against the current Code. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) applied in New Caledonia · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the BES narcotics law (the old-Antillean Opium Ordinance applied through the WvS-BES penal framework) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the Caribbean Netherlands (BES) is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Caribbean Netherlands' drug schedule; the BES narcotics law (the old-Antillean Opium Ordinance applied through the WvS-BES penal framework) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, the BES islands), drugs fall under the old-Antillean narcotics law applied through the WvS-BES penal framework, NOT the European Netherlands' Opium-Act tolerance, penalties are HARSHER than in the European Netherlands. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise instrument and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, the BES islands), drugs fall under the old-Antillean narcotics law applied through the WvS-BES penal framework, NOT the European Netherlands' Opium-Act tolerance, penalties are HARSHER than in the European Netherlands. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise instrument and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Caribbean Netherlands (BES) narcotics law, old-Antillean Opium Ordinance via the WvS-BES penal framework · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Aceh (Indonesia)
Legal status
CBD (cannabidiol) is a Narcotics Group I (Golongan I) substance under Indonesia's Law No. 35 of 2009, which applies in Aceh, cannabis and its derivatives with no CBD exemption or THC threshold; Aceh's sharia layer (Qanun Jinayat) can add discretionary penalties on top of the national narcotics law.
Consequences if caught
Group I possession under Arts 111-112 carries 4-12 years plus large fines, with production/trafficking of larger quantities reaching death, life or 5-20 years; in Aceh, sharia can add flogging.
If prescribed / medical
Group I status bars medical use (Art. 8(1)); there is no Epidyolex/prescription scheme.
Documentation
No documentation legalises CBD, a Group I narcotic nationally, with an added sharia layer in Aceh; a foreign prescription does not permit entry.
Not confirmed, the Faroe Islands' own narcotics-control framework is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the Faroe Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Faroe Islands' drug schedule; the Faroe Islands' own narcotics-control framework is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Faroe Islands, drugs fall under the Faroe Islands' own narcotics-control and customs-enforcement framework, the Faroes self-govern health and justice and operate a drug-control regime distinct from Denmark. The specific consolidating statute is left to confirmation against current Faroese law. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Faroese Government portal (government.fo) and the Library of Congress with UNODC corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Faroe Islands, drugs fall under the Faroe Islands' own narcotics-control and customs-enforcement framework, the Faroes self-govern health and justice and operate a drug-control regime distinct from Denmark. The specific consolidating statute is left to confirmation against current Faroese law. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Faroese Government portal (government.fo) and the Library of Congress with UNODC corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in the Falkland Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Falkland Islands' drug schedule; the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Saint Helena's misuse-of-drugs ordinance is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for cbd in Saint Helena is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Saint Helena's drug schedule; Saint Helena's misuse-of-drugs ordinance is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Saint Helena (the territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha), drugs fall under Saint Helena's own misuse-of-drugs ordinance, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Saint Helena law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Saint Helena (the territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha), drugs fall under Saint Helena's own misuse-of-drugs ordinance, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Saint Helena law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Saint Helena misuse-of-drugs ordinance (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha · UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
United States
Legal status
Not listed in any federal schedule under its own name, but the source decides. Under 21 USC 802(16)(A) every compound and derivative of the cannabis plant is marihuana unless it is hemp, so material taken from a plant above the hemp threshold is a Schedule I substance whatever the cannabinoid in it is called. This cell states federal law only. Every state has its own controlled substances act and several differ from the federal schedules, so check the law of the state you are in.
Consequences if caught
It has no entry of its own in 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15. Hemp is excluded from the definition of marihuana by 21 USC 802(16)(B)(i), and 7 USC 1639o defines hemp by a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis. Paragraph 1308.11(d)(31)(ii) carries the same carve out. Whether a cannabinoid made from hemp but not naturally present in it falls inside that carve out is contested, and nothing here asserts an answer. So the same compound can be uncontrolled or Schedule I depending on the plant it came from and its delta-9 concentration. Supply is 21 USC 841. Unless the substance appears in the weight tables of section 841(b)(1)(A) or (B), it falls to section 841(b)(1)(C), which reads that such a person 'shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years and if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of such substance shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than twenty years or more than life'. There is no mandatory minimum under that paragraph, which is not the same as a light penalty. Simple possession is 21 USC 844(a), up to 1 year and a fine of at least 1,000 dollars on a first offence, with higher figures after a prior conviction. The section excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'.
If prescribed / medical
Prescription supply through the licensed channel is lawful. 21 USC 844(a) excepts a substance obtained on a valid prescription from a practitioner acting in the course of professional practice, and handling outside that channel is an offence under 21 USC 841 and the registration provisions at 21 USC 822 and 823.
Documentation
Carry any prescribed medicine in its original labelled container with the prescription. Federal law and the law of the state you are entering can differ, so confirm both before travel.
Controlled Substances Act, 21 USC 802, 812, 813, 841 and 844 (Office of the Law Revision Counsel) · 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 (Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, current as of 11 September 2026) · 91 FR 22714, 28 April 2026, for marijuana in an approved product or under a state medical licence · Updated September 15, 2026
· MHLW designated substances list status 6 September 2026, https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/11120000/001743042.pdf
Documentation
NOT VERIFIED. What could not be settled: whether a given product is plant material, contains tetrahydrocannabinol, or is pure cannabidiol, which is a fact about the product; and for pure cannabidiol, whether it has the capacity to have a psychoactive effect within section 2, whether it is a poison, and the Fifth Schedule exclusions for "Any health product", "Any medicinal product", "Any intoxicating substance", "Any psychotropic substance" and, at item 13A, specified psychoactive substances under the Tobacco and Vaporisers Control Act 1993, each of which takes its meaning from another instrument that was not read. Searched this run in English, the language of the instrument, against the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 current as at 03 Oct 2026, with hyphen variants normalised because the text prints U+2011 non-breaking hyphens: "cannabidiol" 0 hits, "CBD" 0. Read Part 4's cannabinol derivatives definition and its nine worked examples, and section 2's definitions of cannabis, cannabis mixture and cannabis resin. Searched the Poisons Act 1938 list, current as at 03 Oct 2026, in English: "cannabidiol" 0 hits. It has three cannabis family entries, "Cannabinol and its tetrahydro derivatives, prepared wholly or partly by synthesis; their 3-alkyl homologues; any ester or ether of any substance falling within this item", "Cannabis, the dried flowering or fruiting tops of Cannabis Sativa, Linn; the resin of cannabis; extracts of cannabis; tinctures of cannabis; cannabin tannate" and "Tetrahydrocannabinol", and whether a CBD extract is among the "extracts of cannabis" for Fifth Schedule item 11 was not settled. Searched the INCB Green List, 36th edition 2025, in English: "cannabidiol" 0 hits. The Green List predates the March 2026 session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which added two nitazenes to the 1961 Convention and MDMB-FUBINACA to the 1971 Convention, per the UNODC announcement of 12 March 2026. Searched the INCB Yellow List, 65th edition July 2026, which is the Spanish text: "cannabidiol" and "canabidiol" 0 hits. The capital answer above is conditional on the product and is set out in full.
Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (Singapore), sections 2, 11F, 11H, 11I and 22A, First Schedule Parts 1 and 4, Second Schedule and Fifth Schedule, on Singapore Statutes Online at https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/MDA1973, fetched 3 October 2026 at the version the page marks "Current version as at 03 Oct 2026", the most recent amendment shown on its own timeline being S 321/2026 with effect from 1 June 2026 · Poisons Act 1938 (Singapore), The Schedule, Poisons list, on Singapore Statutes Online at https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/PA1938, fetched 3 October 2026, current version as at 03 Oct 2026 · INCB Green List, 36th edition, 2025 · incb.org · INCB Yellow List, 65th edition, July 2026, Spanish text · incb.org · UNODC Laboratory and Scientific Service announcement of 12 March 2026, three substances placed under international control at the 69th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs · unodc.org · Updated October 3, 2026
· searched at https://sha.shj.ae/#:~:text=%D8%AA%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84 with the federal instrument at https://uaelegislation.gov.ae/ar/legislations/1540#:~:text=%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9%204, the federal legislation portal
· the instrument is written in Arabic and the search terms and renderings are the dossier's
· read as at 20 September 2026
Thailand, Ministry of Public Health Category V notification B.E. 2565 covering extracts from every part of the cannabis plant subject to its exceptions and THC conditions, read with the Controlled Herb (Cannabis) Notification B.E. 2568
· penalties for a non-exempt Category V extract at Narcotics Code B.E. 2564 section 148, up to 5 years or 1 to 15 years in aggravated cases
· read at https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/media.php?id=808160206197497856&name=NARCO+list+(update+15.09.2025)+NEW.pdf on 20 September 2026. No express open reuse licence was located on the cited page, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link.
If prescribed / medical
No cannabidiol medicine is registered in Indonesia. Epidyolex and equivalents are not available.
Documentation
No document authorises CBD, and this is one of the most common ways travellers are arrested in Indonesia. CBD oil bought lawfully in a pharmacy in another country is a Golongan I narcotic here. Do not bring it.
Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika, LN 2009/143, TLN 5062, as amended by Undang-Undang Nomor 6 Tahun 2023, and Undang-Undang Nomor 5 Tahun 1997 tentang Psikotropika, LN 1997/10, TLN 3671 · empowering articles Pasal 6(3) and Pasal 2(4) respectively, both of which were checked because a finding of absence has to hold against both regimes · absence was established by reading all seven current lists in full, Narkotika Golongan I, II and III from Permenkes Nomor 15 Tahun 2025 and Psikotropika Golongan I, II, III and IV from Permenkes Nomor 14 Tahun 2025, and both precursor tables from Lampiran II of the Act, and by reading every apparent text match in its surrounding region rather than counting it as an entry · the finding is named in none of the seven current golongan: Narkotika Golongan I, II and III of Permenkes No. 15 Tahun 2025, and Psikotropika Golongan I, II, III and IV of Permenkes No. 14 Tahun 2025 · The cannabis entry read in full for the processed product words, the tetrahydrocannabinol entry read for the isomer clause, and all seven golongan searched for cannabidiol, returning nothing. Aceh runs a separate criminal code for some conduct and is a separate jurisdiction in this dataset · the Qanun Aceh Nomor 6 Tahun 2014 tentang Hukum Jinayat was read for this batch and mentions narkotika and psikotropika zero times, so narcotics law in Aceh is the national Act unchanged. Read 2026-09-17 · e-pharm.kemkes.go.id · jdih.kemkes.go.id · jdih.kemkes.go.id · e-pharm.kemkes.go.id · Placement re-derived in this pass from Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Nomor 15 Tahun 2025 tentang Perubahan Penggolongan Narkotika and Nomor 14 Tahun 2025 tentang Penetapan dan Perubahan Penggolongan Psikotropika, both read at jdih.kemkes.go.id on 21 September 2026. Permenkes 15/2025 was ditetapkan 21 November 2025 and diundangkan 28 November 2025 at Berita Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 2025 Nomor 988, and it repeals Permenkes 7/2025. The matched entry is quoted in the cell. Section membership is stated rather than entry number, because a watermark in the published PDF reflows the numbering. · Updated September 21, 2026
Saudi Arabia, General Rule 9 of the schedules attached to the Law of Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, Royal Decree M/39 of 1426 AH, in the version issued on 4 September 2026, which governs cannabidiol by origin and prints its own exceptions, with M/39 Articles 1, 37 to 41 and 70 to 71 applying to scheduled constituents and to products brought within the Law · the schedules were read at https://sfda.gov.sa/sites/default/files/2026-09/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%82%D8%A9%20%D9%84%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%85%20%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%20%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9%202026.pdf, the Saudi Food and Drug Authority copy, and the penalty articles at https://www.moh.gov.sa/eServices/Licences/Documents/17.pdf, the Ministry of Health copy of M/39, with the statute text cross-checked against the readable transcription at https://github.com/Ahmed-Sleem/SaudiLegalCorpus · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026
If prescribed / medical
There is no prescription route for cannabidiol in Malaysia, and this cell states that rather than leaving a reader to infer it. Every prohibition in the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, and the definition of trafficking in section 2, is qualified by the words «otherwise than under the authority of this Act or the regulations made under the Act», so a lawful holding is one that sits inside an authority granted under the Act. The authority the Act contemplates is a licence or a regulation made under it, and here there is nothing for one to attach to. It is reached at Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, through the cannabis entries rather than through any entry of its own: cannabidiol is named nowhere in either Act, but section 2 defines cannabis in those words, so a cannabidiol product made from plant material in which resin is present is cannabis itself. Neither Act evidences a registered product containing it. There is no cannabidiol exemption and no content threshold anywhere in the Act, and the Poisons List entry «(DD) Cannabis, its resin, extracts and tinctures of; cannabin tannate» exempts only corn paints for external use. A product that is genuinely free of resin-bearing material falls outside the definition, and this cell does not state which side of that line any particular product sits on.
Documentation
There is no document to carry, because there is no lawful holding for a document to evidence. This cell says so plainly rather than leave a traveller looking for paperwork that does not exist for cannabidiol. The entry that forecloses the question is «any part of any plant of the genus Cannabis from which there is found to be present resin irrespective of its quantity, and by whatever name the plant may be designated», reached at Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, through the cannabis entries rather than through any entry of its own. Section 25 of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, the traveller provision, turns on a medicinal preparation supplied by or on the prescription of a medical practitioner residing outside Malaysia, so it has nothing to attach to here. It is also confined to Part V of the Act, the external trade Part, and would not answer a possession charge even if it did apply. Getting the paperwork wrong is not a paperwork penalty. Section 37(d) provides that «any person who is found to have had in his custody or under his control anything whatsoever containing any dangerous drug shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been in possession of such drug and shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have known the nature of such drug», and section 37(da) can then presume trafficking from the weight of the material alone. A foreign prescription, a licence issued in another country, and religious or traditional use are none of them provided for anywhere in the Act. The entry the document has to answer to, in the First Schedule itself, is «Cannabis» at Part I, «Cannabis» at Part II, «Extract or tincture of cannabis» at Part III. If the document does not answer the entry, the charge is not section 12 at all. Section 11(1) confines that section to Parts III, IV and V of the Schedule, so a Part I or Part II entry is charged under section 6 or under section 9(1) read with section 8, each carrying «a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or both».
Malaysia, Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, Act 234, first enacted as Ordinance No. 30 of 1952 and revised in 1980 with effect from 17 July 1980 · read from the Attorney General's Chambers online updated text headed «As at 4 July 2023», latest Act amendment being the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023, Act 846, in force 4 July 2023 · Poisons Act 1952, Act 366, revised 1989, read from the Attorney General's Chambers online updated text as at 1 January 2022, latest amendment P.U. (A) 412/2021 in force 3 November 2021 · read for this substance: the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 in all five Parts, the entry found at Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, through the cannabis entries rather than through any entry of its own as «any part of any plant of the genus Cannabis from which there is found to be present resin irrespective of its quantity, and by whatever name the plant may be designated» · sections 2, 6, 6B, 8, 9, 11(1), 16, 25, 37(d), 37(da), 39A, 39B and 45A of that Act · the Poisons Act 1952 Poisons List and Third Schedule both read · the Poisons Act 1952 Third Schedule read in full · the First Schedule has since been amended twice under section 45A, by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of First Schedule) Order 2024, P.U. (A) 97, gazetted 2 April 2024, which inserts Etazene, Etonitazepyne, 2-Methyl-AP-237 and Protonitazene into Part III and substitutes Proheptazine for Propheptazine, and by the Order 2025, P.U. (A) 416, gazetted 25 November 2025, which inserts Butonitazene into Part III · both orders were read in full and neither touches this substance · the publisher's own disclaimer is carried forward: this is only an updated text and not an authentic text until it is reprinted under subsection 14(1) of the Revision of Laws Act 1968 · read as at 2026-09-17 from https://lom.agc.gov.my/ilims/upload/portal/akta/outputaktap/1840725_BI/22.11.2023%20-%20Act%20234.pdf and https://lom.agc.gov.my/ilims/upload/portal/akta/outputaktap/1714451_BI/ACT%20366_MUKTAMAD_1%20JANUARY%202022.pdf and https://lom.agc.gov.my/ilims/upload/portal/akta/outputaktap/1826840_BI/Akta%20846%20BI.pdf · re-derived in this pass, from the on-disk Attorney General's Chambers online updated text of Act 234 whose own header reads «As at 4 July 2023»: sections 2, 5, 6, 6B, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 25, 30, 37, 38A, 38B, 39, 39A, 39B, 39C, 41, 41A, 41B, 45A and 46, and the First Schedule read line by line in all five Parts · and from the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023, Act 846, sections 1(2), 2, 54 and 55 · the First Schedule has five Parts and not three: Part I and Part II are the plant and prepared-opium lists, Part III the long alphabetical chemical list, Part IV a shorter codeine group carrying its own isomer clause and its own salt clause, with Part III's ester and ether clause running across the whole Schedule and not only that Part because it reads «of the drugs in this Schedule» where the other two read «this Part», and Part V is headed «PREPARATION FOR THE EXPORT OF WHICH EXPORT AUTHORIZATIONS ARE NOT REQUIRED» and is an exemption list rather than a control list · section 39B carries no quantity table of its own, the weights being in section 37(da), which is a rebuttable presumption of trafficking, and in section 39A, which applies only where the offence is not punishable with death · the file the Act 234 text is served from is dated 22 November 2023 in its name while the text's own header reads «As at 4 July 2023», and the header is the version stated here · all Poisons Act 1952 material in this cell, including every Poisons List and Third Schedule entry and every figure drawn from that Act, is carried forward from the earlier reading recorded above and was not re-derived in this pass · so is every other fact in this cell that is not derivable from the two texts named above, which includes the two section 45A orders of 2024 and 2025, the commencement of the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2017 on 15 March 2018, and any statement here about the Single Convention or the 1971 Convention and their schedules · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to the 2001 Regulations lists a liquid formulation «containing cannabidiol obtained by extraction and purification from cannabis;» with no more than 0.1 milligram of delta-9-THC per millilitre and 95 to 105 milligrams of cannabidiol per millilitre, presented as an oral solution and «which was approved for marketing by the European Commission on 19th September 2019.» That is a prescribed cannabidiol medicine, and as a Schedule 5 preparation regulation 4 frees it from the import, export and possession prohibitions. On Northern Ireland the sources point two ways, and both are quoted. legislation.gov.uk tags every provision of the 2001 Regulations with the extent E+W+S+N.I. 45 such tags in its XML, while the Regulations themselves carry no extent clause; against that tag, their amending Regulations of 2023 and 2024 each state «These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Scotland.», and the 2026 temporary class drug order applies the two codes separately, saying «The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 apply to the substances and products listed in the Schedule to this Order as if those substances and products were specified in Schedule 1 to those Regulations.» and «The Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 apply to the substances and products listed in the Schedule to this Order as if those substances and products were specified in Schedule 1 to those Regulations.» Northern Ireland has its own Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002, S.R. 2002 No. 1. The legislation.gov.uk text of those Regulations states «There are outstanding changes not yet made by the legislation.gov.uk editorial team to The Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002.», so the Northern Ireland schedule for this row is not given here.
Documentation
A consumer CBD product needs no Home Office licence if it contains no controlled cannabinoid above the exempt product limit; the traveller bears the risk of a product that tests above it. The Home Office page at https://www.gov.uk/travelling-controlled-drugs, read on 2 October 2026, concerns controlled medicines; the factsheet at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cannabis-cbd-and-other-cannabinoids-drug-licensing-factsheet sets the Home Office position on the exempt product test.
Psychoactive Substances Act 2016, ss. 2 to 11 and 26 and Schedules 1 and 2 · legislation.gov.uk · read on 2 October 2026 as the legislation.gov.uk revised text, which records no known outstanding effects · Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, s. 2 and Schedule 2, read as in force on 2 October 2026, no known outstanding effects recorded · legislation.gov.uk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001, reg. 2 and Schedule 5 para. 10 · legislation.gov.uk · Home Office drug licensing factsheet: cannabis, CBD and other cannabinoids, updated 3 October 2024 · gov.uk · Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Temporary Class Drug) Order 2026, S.I. 2026/613 · legislation.gov.uk · Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, ss. 1 and 2 · Penalties for Disorderly Behaviour (Amount of Penalty) Order 2002, S.I. 2002/1837, as amended by S.I. 2009/83 and S.I. 2013/1579 · legislation.gov.uk · legislation.gov.uk · legislation.gov.uk · Draft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2026, not made as at 2 October 2026 · legislation.gov.uk · S.I. 2024/1361 read as made on 2 October 2026 · legislation.gov.uk · Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 · Updated October 3, 2026
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The highest penalty anywhere in Part 9.1 of the Criminal Code is imprisonment for life, and Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 s6 provides «The punishment of death must not be imposed as the penalty for any offence referred to in subsection 3(2) or (3).» The Division 307 import and export offences are the only Commonwealth criminal offences reaching CBD. Import and export are offences of their own in Division 307 against the border controlled drug listing (Schedule 2 item 35): s307.3, imprisonment for 10 years or 2,000 penalty units, or both, with a defence if the person proves no intention or belief that any would be sold; s307.4, which needs no commercial intent, 2 years or 400 penalty units, or both; s307.2 for a marketable quantity (2.0 g or more), 25 years or 5,000 penalty units, or both; s307.1 for a commercial quantity (2.0 kg or more), imprisonment for life or 7,500 penalty units, or both. Possessing an unlawfully imported quantity is s307.5 to s307.7 on the same thresholds, and possessing one reasonably suspected of unlawful import is s307.8 to s307.10. The Customs Act s233(5) leaves border controlled drugs to these offences rather than to the Customs Act smuggling offence. Possession, sale and supply within Australia are not Commonwealth offences for CBD; they are state and territory poisons offences built on its Schedule 3, 4, 8 or 9 placement. There is no Commonwealth offence of using or consuming a drug; use is left to state and territory law. A penalty unit is $364 for an offence committed on or after 1 July 2026 under the Crimes (Amount of a Penalty Unit) Instrument 2026 (F2026N00424), made under Crimes Act 1914 s4AA, so 400 penalty units is $145,600, 2,000 is $728,000 and 7,500 is $2,730,000; «or both» in each penalty means the prison term and the fine are available alternatively or together.
If prescribed / medical
Schedule 4 makes a CBD preparation a prescription only medicine. The Reader's guide, which is not part of the instrument, describes Schedule 4 as «Substances, the use or supply of which should be by or on the order of persons permitted by State or Territory legislation to prescribe and should be available from a pharmacist on prescription.» A registered Schedule 3 product may be sold by a pharmacist without prescription to an adult within the 150 mg daily dose and 30 day pack limits quoted above. Products not entered in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods are prescribed through Therapeutic Goods Act approval pathways. The Narcotic Drugs Act 1967 (Compilation No. 16, compilation date 14 October 2024) also applies, because it defines drug as «any substance that is a drug for the purposes of the Convention», the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961: it licenses the manufacture of narcotic drugs through manufacture licences and permits.
Documentation
Traveller rule, Commonwealth: regulation 5(2)(b) of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956 lifts the import prohibition for a drug carried by a passenger on a ship or aircraft that «is required for the medical treatment of the person or of another passenger under the care of the person», «was prescribed by a medical practitioner for the purposes of that treatment» and «was supplied to the person in accordance with the prescription of the medical practitioner referred to in subparagraph (ii)». Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 Schedule 5 item 1 (Compilation No. 130, compilation date 8 September 2026) covers «therapeutic goods that are imported for therapeutic use in the treatment of the importer or the importer’s immediate family» and limits the personal import to «not more than 3 months’ supply at the maximum dose recommended by the manufacturer» in one importation and, for goods in Schedule 4 or Schedule 8 of the current Poisons Standard, requires a written authority from a medical practitioner, or an overseas medical practitioner where the goods are carried by a passenger. The Australian Border Force traveller guidance (abf.gov.au, read 2 October 2026) asks the traveller to «carry a letter or copy of your prescription (written in English) from your doctor to certify that the medicine has been prescribed to you to treat a medical condition», to keep the medicine in its original packaging and to declare it on arrival. Anything outside that exemption needs an import licence and permission from the Office of Drug Control under regulation 5(1). Where the medicine is also a border controlled drug, Division 307 of the Criminal Code has no traveller exception of its own; the traveller relies on Criminal Code s10.5, «A person is not criminally responsible for an offence if the conduct constituting the offence is justified or excused by or under a law.», on the footing that an import within regulation 5(2)(b) is so excused. That footing is this cell's reading of the provisions; no decision applying it was read. The Therapeutic Goods Administration and Office of Drug Control traveller pages (tga.gov.au, odc.gov.au) did not respond from this network on 2 October 2026 (curl timeout after 60 seconds, twice, and a second fetcher timed out), so nothing in this cell rests on them.
Poisons Standard October 2026, F2026L01327 · legislation.gov.au · Criminal Code Act 1995, Compilation No. 174, volume 1 (s10.5) and volume 2 (Part 9.1, Part 9.2) · legislation.gov.au · legislation.gov.au · Criminal Code Regulations 2019, Compilation No. 6 (Schedules 1 and 2) · legislation.gov.au · Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956, Compilation No. 147 (regulation 5, Schedule 4) · legislation.gov.au · Customs Act 1901, Compilation No. 193, volume 1 (s4) and volume 3 (Part XIII, s233 to s233BABAD) · legislation.gov.au · legislation.gov.au · Narcotic Drugs Act 1967, Compilation No. 16 · legislation.gov.au · Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990, Compilation No. 130 (Schedule 5 item 1) · legislation.gov.au · Crimes (Amount of a Penalty Unit) Instrument 2026, F2026N00424 · legislation.gov.au · Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 s6 · legislation.gov.au · Australian Border Force, medicines and substances · abf.gov.au · Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation at 2 October 2026. For the latest information on Australian Government law please go to · legislation.gov.au · Federal Register of Legislation content licensed CC BY 4.0 · Australian Border Force material: Australian Government Department of Home Affairs, licensed CC BY 3.0 Australia · Updated October 3, 2026
France, consolidated Arrêtés du 22 février 1990, narcotics and psychotropics lists, with the finding for CBD recorded as Absence de classement opératoire sous « cbd » dans les listes examinées · the Code de la santé publique at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGITEXT000006072665 carries the classification machinery and Penal Code article 222-34 at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000006417715 carries a ceiling that this negative finding does not engage · read at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000533085, Légifrance, the official publisher · the body of law flagged as possibly still applying is consumer law and food law · read as at 18 September 2026. · Updated September 20, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The Opiumwetbesluit prescription regime does not apply, because article 2 of that decree governs the prescribing of Opiumwet substances and this is not one. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription.
Documentation
Keep documentation showing the origin and the THC content of the product, because the exposure runs through the plant entries rather than through cannabidiol itself: an extract of hemp answers the printed description of hennepolie, a lijst I entry. Medicinal cannabis is a separate route and requires a prescription.
Opiumwet, artt. 1, 2, 2a, 3, 3a, 3aa, 10, 10b, 10c and 11, and lijsten I, Ia and II · wetten.overheid.nl · geldend van 17-09-2026, read 22 September 2026 · Opiumwetbesluit · wetten.overheid.nl · geldend van 01-01-2023 · Aanwijzing Opiumwet, prosecution policy of the Openbaar Ministerie · wetten.overheid.nl · geldend van 01-03-2015 · Wetboek van Strafrecht art. 23, fine categories · wetten.overheid.nl · Updated October 2, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Spain runs two medicine control regimes side by side: narcotic medicines under Ley 17/1967 and psychotropic medicines under Real Decreto 2829/1977. Under the medicines law the Spanish medicines agency classifies each authorised medicine, «En la autorización del medicamento, la Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios determinará sus condiciones de prescripción», as «Medicamento sujeto a prescripción médica» or «Medicamento no sujeto a prescripción médica». The Spanish medicines register (CIMA), queried on 2 October 2026 by active ingredient «cannabidiol», lists 2 products carrying it of 2 records returned; their conditions are 1 hospital diagnosis (printed «Diagnóstico Hospitalario»), 1 hospital diagnosis, psychotropic (printed «Diagnóstico Hospitalario. Psicótropos»). An authorised medicine is that product only; it does not make other CBD products lawful.
Documentation
No medicine route applies to a non medicinal product. Whether carrying it across the border is import of a controlled substance turns on the same open question: if it is a cannabis extract or carries a listed cannabinoid, it is.
Real Decreto Legislativo 1/2015 (medicines law), article 19, BOE consolidated text last updated 31/07/2026 · boe.es · INCB Yellow List, 65th edition of July 2026, Spanish text · incb.org · INCB Green List, 36th edition, updated December 2025 · incb.org · Ley 17/1967, de 8 de abril, articles 2 and 30, BOE consolidated text last updated 13/12/2001 · boe.es · CIMA, Centro de Información de Medicamentos, AEMPS, queried 2 October 2026 · cima.aemps.es · Ley Orgánica 12/1995, articles 2.3 a) and 3.1, BOE consolidated text last updated 23/12/2022 · boe.es · Ley Orgánica 4/2015, articles 33.2, 36.16 and 39.1, BOE consolidated text last updated 23/02/2021 · boe.es · Código Penal (Ley Orgánica 10/1995), articles 368, 369, 369 bis and 370, BOE consolidated text last updated 09/04/2026 · boe.es · Real Decreto 2829/1977, de 6 de octubre, article 2, Anexo 1 and Anexo 2, BOE consolidated text whose own note reads «Última actualización publicada el 21/04/2026», Anexo 1 in force from 22/04/2026, Anexo 2 last updated 06/06/1986 · boe.es · Real Decreto 1194/2011, BOE consolidated text last updated 08/06/2021 · boe.es · Based on data from the Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (Basado en datos de la Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado), https://www.boe.es · each BOE consolidated text carries the notice «Este texto consolidado es de carácter informativo y no tiene valor jurídico.» · The schedule placement stated in this cell is read from the section heading of Real Decreto 2829/1977 Anexo 1 under which the entry is printed, which is not printed in the quoted entry itself. · Updated October 3, 2026
DPR 309/1990 article 14 with the Ministry of Health compilation of the narcotics tables and its ministerial amendment index, read at https://www.salute.gov.it/new/it/tema/medicinali-stupefacenti-e-precursori-di-droghe/tabelle-delle-sostanze-stupefacenti-e on 18 September 2026 · route for CBD: no operative entry in tables I to IV or in the table of medicinal products, searched as «cbd» · DPR 309/1990 at https://www.normattiva.it/eli/id/1990/10/31/090G0363/CONSOLIDATED · Penal Code article 78 at https://www.normattiva.it/eli/id/1930/10/26/030U1398/CONSOLIDATED · penalties at DPR 309/1990 articles 73, 75 and 80 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Products containing it are sold under the trade rule article 245 ends with, which is a sanitary registration question and not a prescription one. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation
Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The cannabinoid entries in article 245 are tetrahydrocannabinol isomers and this row is not one of them. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: cbd 0, canabidiol 0, cannabidiol 0, derivados de la cannabis 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The annex heads lista C1 as subject to Receita de Controle Especial in two copies. Lista C1 adendo 13 confines the lista C1 route to synthetically obtained cannabidiol. Plant derived cannabidiol falls under lista E, where adendo 16 names the fitofarmaco CBD among the items routed to lista A3, and adendo 7 permits an individual to import a cannabis derived product for his own treatment on a prescription under Resolucao 660 de 30 de marco de 2022. For a traveller the rule is Resolucao 81 de 5 de novembro de 2008 as amended by Resolucao 28 de 28 de junho de 2011. Its item 1 dispenses with sanitary authorisation at the point of entry for a finished medicine imported by an individual for his own use, item 1.1 brings goods in accompanied or unaccompanied baggage of a traveller arriving from abroad inside that dispensation, and item 1.2 defines own use as a quantity and frequency compatible with the duration and purpose of treatment and not amounting to trade. Item 1.3 takes medicines based on substances listed in Portaria 344/98 back out of the dispensation and sends them to Resolucao 63 de 9 de setembro de 2008. That resolution rewrote article 34 of Portaria 344/98 to forbid purchase and sale of listed substances and their medicines by reimbursement systems through any means of communication including post and electronic channels, excepting only medicines based on lista C1 substances in presentations not registered or marketed in Brazil, bought abroad by an individual for his own use, on production of a medical prescription and a fiscal document, in a quantity for individual use, with resale forbidden. That resolution was read in full this pass, through a rendering fetcher because a direct request to the publisher is refused with a challenge page and the health ministry library returns a server error, so the reading is [Certain] and the route to it is worth stating. The prescribing chapters of Portaria SVS/MS 344/1998 itself were not read this pass, so no validity period and no quantity per prescription is stated here.
Documentation
The placement was read on 21 September 2026 in the Anexo I published with Resolucao da Diretoria Colegiada 1.036, de 9 de julho de 2026, the annex that heads itself Atualizacao n. 101 and whose footer records publication in the Diario Oficial da Uniao of 13 July 2026. ANVISA's own update register at gov.br/anvisa numbers that resolution row 102 of its history and marks it the version in force, while the annex itself is headed Atualizacao n. 101. Both numbers are recorded here because they disagree and neither was preferred silently. A later update is not ruled out. Carried from the live cell and not re-derived this pass: Resolucao 327 de 2019 is recorded there as the route by which registered cannabis products are sold in pharmacies on prescription, and Resolucao 660 de 2022 as the individual patient import authorisation. Lista E adendo 7 of the annex read this pass names Resolucao 660 de 30 de marco de 2022 for the individual import route. [Likely], carried, for the rest.
Brazil, Portaria SVS/MS 344 de 12 de maio de 1998, Anexo I, as published with Resolucao da Diretoria Colegiada 1.036 de 9 de julho de 2026 (Atualizacao n. 101, Diario Oficial da Uniao of 13 July 2026), read at https://anvisalegis.datalegis.net/action/ActionDatalegis.php?acao=abrirTextoAto&tipo=RDC&numeroAto=00001036&seqAto=000&valorAno=2026 on 21 September 2026 · the update register that marks it the version in force is at https://www.gov.br/anvisa/pt-br/assuntos/medicamentos/controlados/lista-substancias · Lei 11.343 de 23 de agosto de 2006 at https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2004-2006/2006/lei/l11343.htm · Constituicao da Republica Federativa do Brasil de 1988, article 5, XLVII, at https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/constituicao/constituicao.htm · Supremo Tribunal Federal, Tema 506, leading case RE 635659, at https://portal.stf.jus.br/jurisprudenciaRepercussao/verAndamentoProcesso.asp?incidente=4034145&numeroProcesso=635659&classeProcesso=RE&numeroTema=506 · Resolucao 81 de 5 de novembro de 2008 as amended by Resolucao 28 de 28 de junho de 2011, and Resolucao 63 de 9 de setembro de 2008 at https://anvisalegis.datalegis.net/action/ActionDatalegis.php?acao=abrirTextoAto&tipo=RDC&numeroAto=00000063&seqAto=000&valorAno=2008 · Updated September 21, 2026
NDPS Act 1985, the Schedule (list of psychotropic substances) · NDPS Rules 1985 · Regulation of Controlled Substances Order 2013 · quantity notification S.O. 1055(E) · searched by name and by chemical synonym across all 264 pages of that consolidation for cannabidiol, cbd, with no match · Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985, sections 2, 3 and 8, section 3 being the power under which the Central Government adds to or omits from the psychotropic Schedule by Official Gazette notification · the offence and sentencing provisions read for this cell are sections 15 to 27, with sections 31, 31A, 37, 64A, 80 and 81 · enforcement is by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and the Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN), under the Department of Revenue · Central Bureau of Narcotics consolidation of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and Rules 1985 labelled updated 2026, which prints the Act's Schedule as amended through S.O. 1730(E) of 16 April 2025 · the Schedule as it stands after S.O. 906(E) of 18 February 2026 · small and commercial quantity notification S.O. 1055(E) of 19 October 2001 as amended through S.O. 1731(E) of 16 April 2025 · cbn.gov.in · cbn.gov.in · cbn.gov.in · dor.gov.in · indiacode.nic.in · the publisher's own acts and rules page was read at that address on 22 September 2026 and lists no later amendment of the Schedule, which does not rule out a later notification made or commenced since. · Updated September 21, 2026
Turkey, Law No. 2313 on the Control of Narcotic Substances of 12 June 1933, articles 3, 19, 20 and 23 as amended by Law No. 7557 of 21 July 2025, with the Turkish Penal Code No. 5237 for the penalties that would follow a scheduled constituent · the consolidated texts were read at https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuatmetin/1.3.2313.pdf (HTTP 200, 220,153 bytes) and https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuatmetin/1.5.5237.pdf (HTTP 200, 1,070,143 bytes), both fetched on 20 September 2026. The dossier's own url column holds one identical string for all 88 Turkey rows and that string is these two addresses run together with no separator, so the citation it supplies is document level rather than per substance. · Updated September 20, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Pure cannabidiol is a Table 3 substance. Table 4 sets prescription maxima for «Cannabis» (600 milligrams), «Cannabis resin» and «Cannabis extract» (200 milligrams each), «Cannabis liquid extract» and «Cannabis tincture» (items 20 to 24, PDF page 31, gazette page 32), which is read as the law contemplating cannabis prescriptions in Egypt; whether any cannabis medicine is dispensed was not read, so the live cell's statement that there is no medical CBD route for the public is carried as a practical observation, not as a rule of the tables, which were read.
Documentation
No documentation legalises CBD, controlled as cannabis; travellers have been arrested despite holding a prescription.
Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · Updated October 3, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Whether the narcotics prescribing chapter of Law 4139/2013 governs CBD depends on the question this cell leaves open. A separate medicines or registration rule may still apply, and a prescribing rule is never a criminal schedule. The article 2 paragraphs in this field are carried forward from the published Greece entry and were not re-derived in this pass.
Documentation
What paperwork this row needs depends on what the material actually is, which is the question this cell does not settle. Carry the original container and the pharmacy label for anything you travel with, and a doctor's letter if it was prescribed. Where the rule comes from. The offences are in Law 4139/2013, the narcotics code, gazette A 74 of 20 March 2013, and the substance lists are not in it. Article 1 paragraph 2 provides that the substances «περιλαμβάνονται ιδίως στους πίνακες Α΄, Β΄, Γ΄ και Δ΄, οι οποίοι αναφέρονται στην παρ. 2 του άρθρου 1 του ν. 3459/2006». Article 1 paragraph 4 gives the power that moves the list: «Με κοινή απόφαση των Υπουργών Υγείας και Δικαιοσύνης», by joint decision of the Ministers of Health and of Justice, after the opinion of the Narcotics Committee, substances may be added, removed or moved between categories. What this cell incorporates is the Ministry of Health consolidated edition of June 2026, read in full rather than searched, and reading it does not rule out a later joint ministerial decision. It carries 375 numbered entries, 138 in ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, 18 in ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Β, 135 in ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Γ and 84 in ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Δ, each series running from 1 without a gap. Every entry names the gazette that placed it. Counting those gazettes by number and date gives 29, of which one, gazette 6034 B of 31 December 2018, is a correction of an error rather than a placing decision. The published Greece entry gives that figure as twenty eight, and the two counts differ by exactly that correction. The most recent placing instrument in the file is gazette 3277 B of 11 June 2026. Placement for CBD: not established on the face of the tables.
Tables of substances of article 1 of Law 3459/2006 as in force under Law 4139/2013, Ministry of Health consolidated edition of June 2026, the file «Πίνακες Ναρκωτικών (Α_Β_Γ_Δ) ΕΠΙΚΑΙΡΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ 2026.pdf», read in full at www.moh.gov.gr on 21 September 2026 · moh.gov.gr · moh.gov.gr · Law 4139/2013, the narcotics code, gazette A 74 of 20 March 2013, articles 1, 2, 20, 21, 22, 23, 29 and 30: the offence articles, the penalty figures and the article 2 prescribing paragraphs in this cell are carried forward from the published Greece entry and were not re-derived in this pass · et.gr · Placement for CBD: not established on the face of the tables · Updated September 21, 2026
Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, danh mục chất ma túy và tiền chất, issued and in force 19 January 2026 · vbpl.vn · Bộ luật Hình sự số 100/2015/QH13 as amended by Luật số 86/2025/QH15, khoản 18 Điều 1, in force 1 July 2025 · vbpl.vn · văn bản hợp nhất số 135/VBHN-VPQH, the consolidated Criminal Code text used for the article wording · thuvienphapluat.vn · placement for CBD: not listed, carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass · read as those lists stand after Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, and this reading does not rule out a later amendment made under Điều 3 khoản 6 of that decree · dossier date checked 17 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
Documentation
No document makes a retail CBD product lawful to carry in. A qualifying CBD drug product needs the Board's Authorization and the FDA permit described above; anything else is an imported dangerous drug under section 4 of RA 9165.
Republic Act No. 9165, the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, enrolled text as published by the Dangerous Drugs Board, sections 3(j), 4, 5, 8, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 93 and its annex · ddb.gov.ph · Dangerous Drugs Board, Updated Lists of Scheduled Controlled Substances as at 06 July 2025, page 6, read on 2 October 2026 · ddb.gov.ph · Republic Act No. 9346, sections 1 and 2, text read at lawphil.net on 2 October 2026 because the Official Gazette refused the request · lawphil.net · Board Regulation No. 1, Series of 2014, adopted 19 June 2014, sections 6(16), 31 and 35, and its Annex A · ddb.gov.ph · ddb.gov.ph · Board Regulation No. 3, Series of 2020 · ddb.gov.ph · Board Regulation No. 10, Series of 2025, adopted 26 June 2025 · ddb.gov.ph · Board Regulation No. 5, Series of 2026, adopted 23 June 2026 · ddb.gov.ph · The schedule placement stated in this cell is read from the section heading of the Board's list under which the entry is printed, which is not printed in the quoted entry itself. · Updated October 2, 2026
· BetmG articles 19, 19a and 19b at https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1952/241_241_245/de
· Swiss Criminal Code article 40 at https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/54/757_781_799/de
· German consolidation dated 13 March 2026, read 18 September 2026.
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule in Czechia is that a Schengen Article 75 certificate is evidential and administrative rather than the schedule itself, so producing one changes what a traveller can show and not where a substance sits. Attached to this row: No prescribing route attaches to this row through the seznamy of návykové látky, and a cannabidiol product is governed by product and food law rather than by this instrument.
Documentation
Carry any prescribed narcotic or psychotropic medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a Schengen Article 75 certificate, and treat that certificate as proof of lawful carriage rather than as anything that alters a list. Medical cannabis has been available on prescription in Czechia since 2013, and the lists keep konopí pro léčebné použití in seznam č. 1 separate from the konopí entry in seznam č. 3. For this row the record is an absence: cannabidiol is not printed in any of the eight seznamy nor in either 2025 list, though many other cannabinoids are.
Czechia, CBD is not an entry in any of the eight seznamy of nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. o seznamech návykových látek nor in either 2025 list · nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. o seznamech návykových látek, consolidated version 17 in force from 25 June 2026 after nařízení vlády č. 107/2026 Sb. read at https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/2013-463 on 21 September 2026 · the enabling provision is § 44c of zákon č. 167/1998 Sb. o návykových látkách · Criminal Code zákon č. 40/2009 Sb. §§ 251a, 283, 283a, 284, 285, 286 and 286a, consolidated version 46 in force from 1 January 2026, read at https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/2009-40 on 21 September 2026 · Listina základních práv a svobod, ústavní zákon č. 2/1993 Sb. čl. 6 odst. 3, read at https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/1993-2 on 21 September 2026 · zakonyprolidi.cz · psp.cz · the two portal links above are the live cell's own publisher references carried forward, and the CZK 15,000 misdemeanour fine, the Supreme Court greater than small quantity thresholds and the 2026 cannabis permission figures are carried forward from the live cell and were not re-derived in this pass · the official e-Sbírka route was tried and refused: e-sbirka.gov.cz, e-sbirka.cz and two of its api paths each returned the same 1040 byte application shell with no document payload, and sbirka.gov.cz did not resolve, so the consolidated text relied on is the zakonyprolidy.cz consolidation of the same nařízení · Updated September 21, 2026
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Cannabidiol carries no entry in the national list, so no offence article of Decreto-Ley 14.294 attaches to it by name. The line that does matter is the tetrahydrocannabinol content: a preparation at or above one per cent is cannabis psicoactivo under article 3 and falls inside the cannabis regime and its offences, while one below one per cent is hemp. A cannabidiol product that is over the line, or one that is an extract or tincture of cannabis rather than a registered hemp medicine, is reached by the entry "resina de cannabis y extractos y tinturas de cannabis" at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, and then by article 31, which punishes unauthorised import, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption and offering for sale with two to twelve years of penitenciaría [Likely]. Uruguay’s published penalties are set out at the cannabis row. They are the country’s penalties for psychoactive cannabis and they are not this row’s exposure where the product is a registered hemp medicine below the threshold. Article 36 follows the same split: its numerals 1 and 6 are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", so they reach an over threshold preparation through the cannabis entry and do not reach a compliant hemp medicine, while numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain as to the wording]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: Cannabidiol is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being a non-intoxicating cannabinoid, and no cannabinoid group exists in Anexo II. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical
This is the one row in this set with a positive prescription answer in the primary text. Decreto 298/017 article 1 puts registered cannabidiol specialties made from hemp below one per cent tetrahydrocannabinol on sale under professional prescription, and article 2 confines dispensing to first and second category pharmacies under Decreto-Ley 15.703 against that prescription [Certain]. The product must be registered and authorised by the medicines department of the health ministry, so a foreign cannabidiol product is not automatically within the authorisation. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad. No traveller allowance for carrying a personal supply was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred.
Documentation
Carry the product in its original packaging with the professional prescription and declare it. The tetrahydrocannabinol content is the fact that decides this row, so documentation showing the product is a hemp derived preparation below one per cent is the material thing to hold. Legal psychoactive cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.
[Certain] Re-derived in this pass. Article 5 of Ley 23.737 opens with the words sin autorización o con destino ilegítimo, so an authorised medical channel sits outside it. Article 8 sets reclusión o prisión de tres a quince años, three to fifteen years, a fine and special disqualification for five to twelve years for a person authorised to produce, manufacture, extract, prepare, import, export, distribute or sell estupefacientes who holds them in quantities other than those authorised, or who applies, delivers or sells them sin receta médica o en cantidades mayores a las recetadas. Article 9 sets prisión de dos a seis años, two to six years, a fine and disqualification for one to five years for a doctor or other authorised prescriber who prescribes, supplies or delivers estupefacientes fuera de los casos que indica la terapéutica o en dosis mayores de las necesarias, rising to reclusión o prisión de cuatro a quince años, four to fifteen years, where the destination is illegitimate. Article 1 of the same Act replaced article 204 of the Penal Code, which sets prisión de seis meses a tres años, six months to three years, for a person authorised to sell medicinal substances who supplies them otherwise than in accordance with the prescription, or without presenting and filing it where the regulations require one. [Certain] Whether those articles reach this row was not established, because no estupefaciente placement was established. A product containing it may still be a prescription medicine under the ANMAT medicines regime, which is a separate instrument that was not read in this pass, and the figures above are the country's prescription offences rather than this row's exposure. [Likely] Carried from the published dossier prepared for this country, not re-derived here: for an authorised medicine a traveller should hold the original labelled package, the prescription that medicine requires, and a medical certificate in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Import rules and ANMAT authorisation remain product specific, and none of those documents creates a personal use quantity or authorises an illicit preparation.
Documentation
[Likely] Carried from the live cell: medical cannabis is lawful for registered patients only, and recreational sale and purchase remain criminal offences. The instrument named for that regime, Ley 27.350, was not read in this pass. [Likely] Carried from the published dossier: carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled package with the prescription it requires and a medical certificate in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period, and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel. Import rules and ANMAT authorisation are product specific. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass for this row: no placement was established for this substance on either list, so no estupefaciente documentation requirement was established for it either, and the lines above are the country rule rather than this row's rule.
Ley 23.737, consolidated text, InfoLEG https://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/0-4999/138/texact.htm · Decreto 560/2019, consolidated text https://www.argentina.gob.ar/normativa/nacional/norma-326675/actualizacion · Decreto 122/2026, substituting Anexo I, published 02/03/2026 https://www.argentina.gob.ar/normativa/nacional/norma-423520/texto · Anexo I as substituted, the complete 886 row text-layer PDF published by the Boletín Oficial, https://www.boletinoficial.gob.ar/detalleAviso/primera/338915/20260302?anexos=1, sha256 197fce006cd7388d4eb06adae573487d2fe820976f55f242d0623e3215deca62, kept at research/instruments/argentina/ · Anexo II, published image https://www.argentina.gob.ar/normativa/326675_dec560anexoII_jpg/archivo · Corte Suprema, Arriola (2009), carried from the live cell https://www.loc.gov/item/2019668143/ · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returning no hit for it, Cannabis, and entry 136, Carfentanilo, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation
Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returns no hit for it. [Certain] Corrected in this pass: an earlier version of this cell named the two entries either side of where the term would sort. That pair was computed on the assumption that the annex sorts on the printed string, and it does not. It sorts ignoring hyphens, spaces and punctuation, which an independent re-parse demonstrated on two runs of the instrument, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, 2-Metil-AP-237, and Nicocodina, Nicodicodina, Nicomorfina, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, N-metilefedrina, Norcodeína. The neighbour pair is withdrawn. The absence itself is unchanged and rests on a complete reading of all 469 entries, which does not depend on the sort order. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.
Ley 7786 of 30 April 1998 as integrally reformed by Ley 8204, arts 1, 2, 36, 58, 73, 74, 77, 77 bis, 79, 96 and 100 · icd.go.cr · Ley 10961 of 9 June 2026, Alcance 78 a La Gaceta 113 of 19 June 2026, in force 19 September 2026 · imprentanacional.go.cr · Lista de sustancias sometidas a fiscalizacion nacional, incluidos los medicamentos psicotropicos y estupefacientes, Ministerio de Salud, updated 10 September 2026, made under Reglamento 45161-S · ministeriodesalud.go.cr · Circular JVD-002-2015 of 14 December 2015, Junta de Vigilancia de Drogas Estupefacientes · ministeriodesalud.go.cr · Constitucion Politica de Costa Rica art 21 · constituteproject.org · Incb Green List, 36th edition, 2025 · incb.org · Incb Yellow List, 65th edition, July 2026 · incb.org · Incb Red List, 23rd edition, July 2025 · swissmedic.ch · read as at 2026-09-21 · ministeriodesalud.go.cr · ministeriodesalud.go.cr · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
No medical cannabis programme exists, so no prescription route for a cannabidiol product is available in the Dominican Republic. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC.
Documentation
The terms searched were «cannabidiol», «CBD», «cáñamo» and «hemp». None appears in the Categorías or in the article 2 definitions. The live cell for this row stated that CBD is treated the same as THC; that is the United States embassy's practical warning and it is carried forward as such rather than as a reading of the statute. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC.
Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · no entry in the Categorías of article 8 · the definitional route is article 2 acápite XXIX · the plural THC entry at Categoría I acápite III item 21 does not reach it · the statement that CBD is treated the same as THC is carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and is not re-derived · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026
Jamaica, the Dangerous Drugs Act, consolidated text, sections 2, 7C and 10, read at https://laws.moj.gov.jm/library/statute/the-dangerous-drugs-act/download, the Ministry of Justice laws of Jamaica library · the download is a 43 page scan of the consolidation whose latest amendment notes are L.N. 3/2001 and, on the Part IIIA pages, L.N. 192A/2017, and five of its pages carry no text layer and were read as page images. This citation is document level and not per substance: the links column of the compilation for this row holds the constructed text «cbd schedule | cbd penalty» rather than an address, and the single hyperlink target in the whole document is the download named above, so no per row source exists and none is implied. The compilation's own outcome for this row is not verified, and the terms it records as searched are «cannabidiol», «cbd», spelling variants and the chemical name. There is no First Schedule of substances in this Act · its Schedule is the set of licence Forms A, B and D, and the list of drugs to which Part IV applies is in section 10(1). The row boundary the read was carried out against is recorded as follows: it tests cannabidiol independently and does not inherit cannabis or THC status. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026
Documentation
Carry the product's own labelling and full ingredient list, because the analysis on this row turns on what the product actually is and not on what it is called, and the source read here establishes no placement in the controlled-drug schedules for CBD to be identified against. Provenance: the placement relied on reads: No controlled-drug schedule as pure CBD; 2010 Act s. 1 capacity test. It was checked on 20 September 2026. What was actually read is “which has, when consumed by a person, the capacity to”, and nothing beyond that wording is carried here. The dossier behind this cell supplied no address for this row, so the citation carried here is to the named instrument and not to a retrieved document.
Ireland. The governing statute is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977, and the provisions this row relies on are the ones printed in its own recorded lines below, with none added to them. This row names no statutory instrument at all. It rests on what its own line records rather than on a regulation, so no instrument number is given here and none has been added to it. The instrument and section string recorded in full for CBD is: No controlled-drug schedule as pure CBD · 2010 Act s. 1 capacity test · row-specific search for CBD (cbd). The entry or wording read is “which has, when consumed by a person, the capacity to”, quoted here as the dossier prints it. The exact search recorded against that instrument is: "CBD" / "cbd" in the instrument named in column 3. The ceiling and the provision carrying it are recorded as: No 1977 Act controlled-drug ceiling attaches to cbd · where the section 1 capacity and section 3 human-consumption elements are proved and no section 2 exclusion applies, section 20 permits up to 5 years on indictment, not a possession offence. Read as at 20 September 2026. The second statute is named in the dossier only as the 2010 Act, with no short title given, so it is cited here in the dossier's own words and no title has been supplied for it. No address is given here because the dossier supplied none. Its address column carried only the words "Source 1Source 2" for this row, and no address of any kind appears anywhere in the dossier, so this citation is to the named instrument rather than to a retrieved document. Nothing has been supplied in place of the missing address. · Updated September 21, 2026
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Carry nothing under the drug instruments, because none of them designates this substance. The extract a CBD product came from can be controlled even where the cannabidiol itself is not. The product, food and consumer instruments were read on 18 September 2026, and the narcotics, psychotrope and NPS sweep that produced the negative findings was run on the same date.
Austria, the absence of a cannabidiol entry in the narcotics and psychotrope lists, the NPS cannabinoid core definitions, and the EU novel food authorisation requirement · the negative sweep covered the Suchtgiftverordnung at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011053, the Psychotropenverordnung at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011054 and the NPS regulation at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20007642 with its structural annex at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Bundesnormen/NOR40261441/II_106_2024_Anlage_II.pdf · RIS is the official publisher · its open data notice at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/UI/Ogd.aspx places the reused material under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and requires attribution, and its imprint at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/UI/Impressum.aspx identifies the signed authentic gazette instruments as the binding text and disclaims accuracy, currency and completeness for the consolidated versions · the novel food regulation was read at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32015R2283 · at that placement the reading also covered this: three separate negatives were established in one pass, no narcotics or psychotrope entry, no fit to the enumerated tetrahydrocannabinol isomers, and no fit to the specified closed ring cannabinoid cores · read as at 18 September 2026. · the section 27, 35, 28 and 28a penalties stated above are carried forward from this site's published Austria entry, which cites the Suchtmittelgesetz and the Suchtgift-Grenzmengenverordnung. They were not re-derived from either instrument in this pass, and that entry's own framing, depenalised and not legalised and no legal minimum quantity, is carried with them · Updated September 21, 2026
· the 0.2 per cent to 0.3 per cent THC threshold and Dz.U. 2022 poz. 763 are carried forward from the published Poland entry and were not re-derived here
· the regulation, both amending regulations and the Act were read at api.sejm.gov.pl on 21 September 2026
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule in Croatia is that carriage of a medicine containing a listed drug is set by Articles 24 and 24.a of the Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga rather than by the schedule, so paperwork changes what a traveller may hold and not where a substance sits. At the state border a traveller may hold such a medicine only on medical documentation and only in the quantity needed for personal use for at most 5 days. A person on substitution therapy for addiction, or on symptomatic therapy in the terminal phase of a malignant disease, may hold up to 15 days on the same documentation. A resident of Croatia travelling to Schengen states, and a Schengen national travelling to Croatia, may hold up to 30 days on a certificate issued on the prescribed form by an authorised doctor, whose content and appearance the health minister sets by pravilnik. Attached to this row: Cannabidiol medicines exist in the European Union and a traveller carrying one is carrying an authorised medicine rather than an extract. The live cell recorded for this row: If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
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Under Article 24(3) the name and quantity of the medicine must be declared to customs on crossing the European Union border, with the medical documentation produced. Article 59 of the control Act makes each of those failures a misdemeanour for a natural person punishable by a fine of 1.000,00 to 10.000,00 kuna, which is roughly 133 to 1,327 euro at the fixed conversion rate, and the four failures it names are carrying without documentation or beyond the 5 day quantity, the substitution and terminal care case beyond 15 days, failing to declare to customs, and travelling within Schengen beyond 30 days or without the certificate. Medical cannabis has been legal in Croatia since October 2015 on prescription, capped at 0,75 g of THC per month and limited to residents, which is carried forward from the live cell. Claims of a 2026 reform introducing a five gram cannabis threshold are not supported by any primary source and should be disregarded, which is also carried forward. The documentary question on this row is the source material and its total content, not the cannabinoid on the label. For this row the provenance is the entry »dibenzopirani« at the psychotropic list, Odjeljak 1. which reaches this row without naming it.
Croatia, Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te tvari koje se mogu uporabiti za izradu droga, NN 19/2023, psychotropic list, Odjeljak 1. the entry »dibenzopirani« reached without naming this row · the terms searched across all three lists of the Popis for this row were CBD, kanabidiol, dibenzopirani, konoplja, industrijska konoplja · the live cell's recital that this substance was not named in the cited Croatian sources is superseded here by a search of the operative Popis itself, which is the instrument those cited sources point at · the Popis as published at NN 19/2023 of 17 February 2023, in force 18 February 2023, read at https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2023_02_19_331.html on 21 September 2026 · its only amendment, Izmjene i dopune Popisa, NN 154/2024 of 30 December 2024, read at https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2024_12_154_2555.html on 21 September 2026 · the enabling provision is Article 2(2) of the Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga, Narodne novine 107/01, 87/02, 163/03, 141/04, 40/07, 149/09, 84/11, 80/13 and 39/19 · Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga, Articles 2, 3, 13, 24, 24.a, 54 and 59, read in the consolidation at https://www.zakon.hr/z/293/zakon-o-suzbijanju-zlouporabe-droga on 21 September 2026 · Kazneni zakon, Articles 41, 44, 46 and 190, read in the consolidation at https://www.zakon.hr/z/98/kazneni-zakon on 21 September 2026 · the current three to twelve year band in Article 190(2) was set by Article 10 of the Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Kaznenog zakona, NN 136/2025, read at https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2025_11_136_2018.html on 21 September 2026, against which the private consolidation was checked · Ustav Republike Hrvatske, Article 21, read at https://www.zakon.hr/z/94/Ustav-Republike-Hrvatske on 21 September 2026 · the live cell's own references, the Drug Abuse Prevention Act (Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga, Official Gazette 107/2001, as amended) and the Criminal Code, carried forward · euda.europa.eu · the 2013 reclassification, the 660 to 2,650 euro fine, the 90 day detention, the no statutory quantity rule, the six months to five years, three to twelve years and fifteen to twenty year figures and the October 2015 medical cannabis permission with its 0,75 g monthly cap are carried forward from the live cell and were not re-derived in this pass · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
There is no controlled drug prescription question for CBD in Hungary under these jegyzékek, because none of the six carries it. Whether CBD is available on prescription, over the counter or on general sale is a question for the Hungarian medicines and pharmacy regime, which this row did not audit. The Hungarian National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition is the body that states them, and the reporting and licensing forms in the mellékletek to 66/2012. (IV. 2.) Korm. rendelet are headed with its Hungarian abbreviation, NNGYK. It appears in Hungary as a food supplement and, in one licensed epilepsy preparation, as a medicine, and the two routes answer to different regimes. Treat the supply route as unread rather than as open. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation
Carry CBD as the Hungarian medicines and consumer regimes allow and do not read this row as a carriage permission, because a substance off the jegyzékek is not thereby free to cross a border. That is the carriage answer for this row and it is deliberately narrow. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for this substance appears in what was read here. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Provenance follows. The controlling text is 78/2022. (XII. 28.) BM rendelet az ellenőrzött anyagokról, read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2022-78-20-0A on 21 September 2026 in the consolidated text as in force on 29 June 2026. Its section 1 puts the kábítószer jegyzékek in the 1. melléklet, the pszichotróp anyag jegyzékek in the 2. melléklet, «A 2. melléklet tartalmazza a pszichotróp anyagnak minősülő anyagok jegyzékeit.», and the új pszichoaktív anyag jegyzék in the 3. melléklet. The Criminal Code was read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2012-100-00-00 on 21 September 2026 in the consolidated text as in force on 26 August 2026, and that rendering stops at section 339, so sections 459(1a) and 461 were read instead in the Act that enacted them, 2025. évi XIX. törvény sections 26 and 27, at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2025-19-00-00.0. The Criminal Code page carries a footnote recording that section 461 is the text established by section 27 of that Act, so the two readings agree. On the instrument itself: the schedules are not in 66/2012. (IV. 2.) Korm. rendelet. That decree survives as the activities, licensing and definitions instrument, its 1. melléklet was repealed by section 11 h) of 607/2022. (XII. 28.) Korm. rendelet, and 78/2022 has carried the jegyzékek since 1 January 2023.
Hungary, CBD, searched across all six jegyzékek and the five structural descriptions of 78/2022. (XII. 28.) BM rendelet az ellenőrzött anyagokról and no controlling entry was found · the entry or the search record is quoted in full in the legal status field and is not repeated here · the rendelet, consolidated text as in force on 29 June 2026, read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2022-78-20-0A on 21 September 2026 · 2012. évi C. törvény a Büntető Törvénykönyvről, sections 176 to 180, read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2012-100-00-00 on 21 September 2026 · sections 459(1a) and 461 of that Act as established by sections 26 and 27 of 2025. évi XIX. törvény, read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2025-19-00-00.0 on 21 September 2026, because the Nemzeti Jogszabálytár rendering of the Criminal Code stops at section 339 · 66/2012. (IV. 2.) Korm. rendelet, the activities and definitions decree whose 1. melléklet formerly carried the jegyzékek and was repealed by section 11 h) of 607/2022. (XII. 28.) Korm. rendelet, at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2012-66-20-22 · every Criminal Code figure in this cell was re-derived from the Act in this pass and the live Hungary figure is printed beside it in the street field · read on 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
No cannabidiol medicine holds a Sri Lankan registration. The licensed Ayurvedic route runs on cannabis preparations and not on isolated cannabinoids.
Documentation
A cannabidiol oil bought abroad is an extract of the cannabis plant on arrival. No certificate of analysis helps, because there is no threshold to be under.
Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218), as last amended by Act No. 7 of 2026, certified 6 March 2026 · Group B of Part I and the whole of Part III were substituted by section 6 of Act No. 41 of 2022, certified 23 November 2022, and the entry relied on is read from that Act · the entry relied on is Third Schedule, Part I, Group B, Section 1 item 27, 「Cannabis Resin, Extracts and Tinctures the separated resin, crude or purified, obtained from the cannabis plant」 · Third Schedule Part I Group B as substituted by section 6 of Act No. 41 of 2022, with sections 48, 54A and 78. Principal Ordinance read from the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board's own copy. Read 2026-09-17 · nddcb.gov.lk · nddcb.gov.lk · parliament.lk · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule is the 1922 dahir's: substances intended for human or veterinary medicine are inscribed in section II of tableaux A, B and C by arrêté of the health administration, and each tableau carries its own dispensing chapter, with tableau B the strictest. A prescribing rule is not a criminal schedule and neither settles the other. A CBD product's position here depends on Law 13-21's licensed chain, and the THC rate that chain uses is one per cent under arrêté conjoint 1297-22. Whether a consumer may buy or carry a CBD product outside that chain was not established, so do not assume a low THC product is admissible.
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The chain has three links and the enumerated list sits in the middle one. Dahir portant loi 1-73-282 of 28 rebia II 1394 (21 May 1974), published at Bulletin officiel 3214 of 5 June 1974, pages 928 and 929, enumerates no substance at all. Its article 1 punishes contravention of the dahir of 12 rebia II 1341 (2 December 1922) on the importation, trade, holding and use of substances vénéneuses, or of the regulatory texts made for its application, concerning « les substances classées comme stupéfiants et inscrites au tableau B », and its articles 2, 3, 4 and 8 attach to « les substances ou plantes classées comme stupéfiants ». Classification therefore happens under the 1922 dahir. Article 1 of that dahir, as modified by the dahir of 17 March 1953, divides substances into « Tableau A: produits toxiques », « Tableau B: produits stupéfiants » and « Tableau C: produits dangereux », and provides that they are inscribed in section I and section II of each tableau by arrêté. The table annexed to the 1922 dahir and printed in the ONSSA consolidated text read on 22 September 2026 is the original annex as annexed in 1922; it carries no sections, so it predates the structure article 1 now describes. The section II lists were found and read on 3 October 2026. Arrêté n° 171-66 of 11 March 1966, Bulletin officiel 2817 of 26 October 1966, pages 1178 to 1189, fixes tableaux A, B and C, and was found by scanning the sommaires of the 1966 French edition issues on sgg.gov.ma. Its tableau B was abrogated and replaced by arrêté n° 1850-96 of 3 September 1996, Bulletin officiel 4422 of 17 October 1996, pages 713 to 716, found through a retyped copy on pharmacie.ma and then in the sommaire of issue 4422, and read from the page image. That tableau B opens « Sont classées comme stupéfiants, les substances et préparations ci-après », which is the wording the 1974 dahir attaches to. Dahir 1-80-140 of 17 December 1980, at Bulletin officiel 3590 of 19 August 1981, page 404, is a publication dahir: it publishes the 1971 Vienna Convention on psychotropic substances as annexed, and it creates no offence and inscribes nothing in tableau B. Its tableaux I to IV are the treaty's own schedules as printed in 1981, thirty two entries in total, and they were read complete from the page image. Law 13-21 on the licit uses of cannabis, promulgated by dahir 1-21-59 of 14 July 2021 and published at Bulletin officiel 7010 of 5 August 2021, does not decriminalise. Its article 1 opens « Nonobstant les dispositions du dahir du 12 rebia II 1341 (2 décembre 1922) », the dahir of 24 April 1954 prohibiting chanvre à kif and dahir portant loi 1-73-282, and then permits cultivation, production, transformation, manufacture, marketing, transport and export to be authorised by the Agence nationale de réglementation des activités relatives au cannabis. Article 50 reads « Sont applicables les sanctions et les mesures de sûreté prévues au dahir portant loi n° 1-73-282 » where that conduct is carried on without a valid authorisation, so the 1974 penalties are the sanction for unlicensed cannabis. Articles 6 and 17 cap tetrahydrocannabinol at a rate « fixé par voie réglementaire », and arrêté conjoint n° 1297-22 of 12 May 2022, published in French at Bulletin officiel 7122 of 1 September 2022, page 1443, and read on 3 October 2026, fixes both rates at « un pour cent (1%) ». Article 17 was re-read on 3 October 2026; article 6 was not. Placement for cbd: in no entry of tableau B as published in 1996 or of tableaux A and C as published in 1966; whether a CBD product is reached by the cannabis entry or sits inside the licensed regime of Law 13-21 was not established. Search record. CBD, cannabidiol and the cannabid stem were each searched and each returns zero in the four instruments read on 22 September 2026, including in Law 13-21 itself, which regulates cannabis without naming any cannabinoid other than tetrahydrocannabinol. All searching was done with word boundaries enforced and with plural tolerance, after a search for tetrahydrocannabinol returned a false zero on the gazette's own plural. An earlier author treated the dossier for this jurisdiction as a term list and did not accept its printed entry claims, because it presents English substance names inside a French quotation frame, attributes them to the 1981 Bulletin officiel, and names substances that postdate that printing by decades. The 3 October 2026 reading did not open the dossier. Every 1974 and 1981 entry quoted in this cell was read from the rendered page image of the gazette at 150 dpi, because the text layer of those scans carries optical character recognition damage, and every 1966 and 1996 entry quoted was read from the page image on 3 October 2026.
Dahir portant loi n° 1-73-282 du 28 rebia II 1394 (21 mai 1974) relatif à la répression de la toxicomanie et la prévention des toxicomanes, Bulletin officiel 3214 of 5 June 1974, pages 928 to 929, read from the page image on 3 October 2026 · https://www.sgg.gov.ma/BO/bo_fr/1974/bo_3214_fr.pdf | Dahir du 12 rebia II 1341 (2 décembre 1922) portant règlement sur l'importation, le commerce, la détention et l'usage des substances vénéneuses, article 1 as modified 17 March 1953 and the annexed tableaux A, B and C as annexed in 1922, ONSSA consolidated text, read on 22 September 2026 | Loi n° 13-21 relative aux usages licites du cannabis, articles 1, 2, 6, 17 and 50, Bulletin officiel 7010 of 5 August 2021, pages 1172 to 1180, read on 22 September 2026 · https://www.sgg.gov.ma/BO/bo_fr/2021/bo_7010_fr.pdf | Arrêté du ministre de la santé publique n° 1850-96 du 18 rabii II 1417 (3 septembre 1996) abrogeant et remplaçant le tableau B de l'arrêté du ministre de la santé publique n° 171-66 du 11 mars 1966, Bulletin officiel 4422 of 17 October 1996, pages 713 to 716, read from the page image on 3 October 2026 · https://www.sgg.gov.ma/BO/bo_fr/1996/bo_4422_fr.pdf | Arrêté du ministre de la santé publique n° 171-66 du 11 mars 1966 modifiant et complétant la composition des tableaux A, B et C des substances vénéneuses destinées à l'usage de la médecine humaine ou vétérinaire (section II), Bulletin officiel 2817 of 26 October 1966, pages 1178 to 1189, searched in an OCR text of every page and read from the page image where an entry is quoted, on 3 October 2026 · https://www.sgg.gov.ma/BO/bo_fr/1966/bo_2817_fr.pdf | Arrêté conjoint n° 1297-22 du 11 chaoual 1443 (12 mai 2022) fixant les taux de tétrahydrocannabinol prévus aux articles 6 et 17 de la loi n° 13-21, Bulletin officiel 7122 of 1 September 2022, page 1443, read on 3 October 2026 · https://www.sgg.gov.ma/BO/FR/2873/2022/BO_7122_Fr.pdf | Dahir n° 1-80-140 du 9 safar 1401 (17 décembre 1980) portant publication de la convention sur les substances psychotropes, Bulletin officiel 3590 of 19 August 1981, page 404, « Listes des substances figurant aux tableaux », as the live cell read it on 22 September 2026 · https://www.sgg.gov.ma/BO/bo_fr/1981/bo_3590_fr.pdf | placement for cbd: in no entry of tableau B as published in 1996 or of tableaux A and C as published in 1966 · whether a CBD product is reached by the cannabis entry or sits inside the licensed regime of Law 13-21 was not established · Updated October 3, 2026
If prescribed / medical
There is a lawful medical route and it runs through a licence, not through a quantity. Article 3 provides «لا يجوز استيراد المواد المخدرة أو المؤثرات العقلية الخطرة أو تصديرها أو نقلها إلا بمقتضى ترخيص كتابي من وزير الصحة العامة.», so importing, exporting or transporting a narcotic drug or dangerous psychotropic substance requires a written licence from the Minister of Public Health. Article 18, as amended by Law No. 16 of 2023, provides «يصدر وزير الصحة العامة قراراً بالبيانات والشروط الواجب توافرها في تحرير الوصفات الطبية التي توصف بمقتضاها مواد مخدرة أو مؤثرات عقلية خطرة للصرف من الصيدليات.», so the Minister sets the particulars and conditions for writing such prescriptions, they are dispensed from paper books stamped with the Ministry's seal or electronically with the Ministry's approval, and the Minister may cap the quantity dispensed to each patient. Article 36 sets five to ten years and a fine of not more than two hundred thousand riyals and not less than one hundred thousand for a doctor who writes a prescription without medical justification and for anyone who knowingly dispenses on one. A foreign prescription is not a Qatari licence and does not become one at the border.
Documentation
No Qatari carriage permit, declaration form or traveller allowance for this substance was found in what was read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. If you carry it as a medicine, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging and ask the Pharmacy and Drug Control Department at the Ministry of Public Health in writing before you travel rather than at the border, because the Department decides release at the point of entry. The item 8 limb added to section a of Table 1 by Ministerial Decision 6 of 2024 was read at the publisher on 22 September 2026, together with that decision's two other articles.
the table and item placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the dossier checked against this batch, because no quoted extract in that dossier carries a table or item marker for any of its 88 rows, measured at 0 of 88 on 22 September 2026 · it was read instead in the Official Gazette annex named above · the statute amendment chain carried in the consolidated text and re-derived from it on 22 September 2026 is Law No. 7 of 1998, Law No. 20 of 2003, Law No. 1 of 2006, Law No. 3 of 2020 and Law No. 16 of 2023, which that text marks on 5, 1, 28, 33 and 1 articles respectively, article 41 bis having been repealed by Law No. 1 of 2006 · the separate medicines regime is Law No. 19 of 1993, whose article 14 gives the Minister the parallel power over its own schedules · Qatar, CBD, Table 1 section a item 8 of Law No. 9 of 1987 as added by Ministerial Decision 6 of 2024, applicability conditional on the material · Qatar, Law No. 9 of 1987 on the control of narcotic drugs and dangerous psychotropic substances, consolidated Arabic text read at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=3989&language=ar on 22 September 2026, where the portal states its material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 · the attached annex, which the Al Meezan schedule note returns empty, was read instead in the Official Gazette scan at https://encyclop.sjc.gov.qa/Portal3/ahkam/OpenpdfFile.aspx?id=8, all thirty pages, a scan carrying no text layer, so it was rendered and read as images and the Latin entry column was transcribed by optical character recognition and confirmed against the page image · the Supreme Judicial Council site reserves all rights and no open-reuse licence was located, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced · the schedule amendments read in full, each through its last article, are Ministerial Decision 22 of 2015 at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=6806&language=ar, Decision 6 of 2024 at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=9649&language=ar, Decision 2 of 2025 at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=9855&language=ar and Decision 8 of 2026 at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=10296&language=ar · the penalty, quantity and fine figures in this cell were re-derived from the consolidated article text on 22 September 2026 and are not carried forward from any earlier cell or summary · the added item is quoted in the legal status field and is not repeated here · Updated September 21, 2026
Decree Law 159 of 2025, articles 40 to 53, gazetted Kuwait Al-Youm 1 December 2025, in force 15 December 2025 · https://alwifaqkw.com/2025/12/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85-%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81/ | Ministry of Health Decision 165 of 2026, made 24 May 2026 under article 40, annexing the complete updated schedules, gazetted Kuwait Al-Youm issue 1793 on 31 May 2026 · https://mesferlaw.com/ | placement for CBD: in no table of Group 1 or Group 2. Cannabidiol is named nowhere in the schedules · Updated September 21, 2026
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The trafficking offence is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: about 60 per cent of drug detentions in Peru are for use or possession, and police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A", and article 296 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592 reaches drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas; neither brings in a substance that no list names, which is why no figure above is asserted here. What was not established on this row is the placement itself. The search run over Anexo N. 2 under cannabidiol, canabidiol and CBD returned no entry, and the cannabis entries at Lista II A item 12 and Lista IV A item 17 read Cannabis, resinas y aceites esenciales, and the catalogue footnotes the Lista II A entry, though not the Lista IV A entry, to Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA, the Reglamento of Ley 30681 on medicinal and therapeutic cannabis. Cannabidiol is not separately named in any of the 244 entries.
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance has no Anexo N. 2 placement to attach, so there is no list to set the form of the receta and no controlled medicines route the Reglamento provides for it. The cannabis entries at Lista II A item 12 and Lista IV A item 17 read Cannabis, resinas y aceites esenciales, and the catalogue footnotes the Lista II A entry, though not the Lista IV A entry, to Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA, the Reglamento of Ley 30681 on medicinal and therapeutic cannabis. Cannabidiol is not separately named in any of the 244 entries. Whether it is a registered medicine in Peru at all is a medicines registration question that sits outside the schedule and was not examined here, so no carriage rule is stated for it.
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Provenance: this row stays unplaced after this run's searches of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, of the INCB Green List 36th edition and Yellow List 65th edition, and of Anexo N. 2 in its 9 March 2026 Wayback capture, all on 3 October 2026. The offence articles set out are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. The previous pass's provenance, carried: the finding relied on is a negative search of all 244 entries of Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, whose address is given in full in the source field, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, together with the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095, and every list was followed to its final numbered item. The terms carried into that search over Anexo N. 2 were cannabidiol, canabidiol and CBD. None of them reached an entry. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.
Peru, Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of the Ministerio del Interior approving the Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP), in El Peruano at https://busquedas.elperuano.pe/dispositivo/NL/2526706-1 and on gob.pe at https://www.gob.pe/institucion/mininter/normas-legales/8278257-0804-2026-in, resolution https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/10174756/8278257-0804-2026-in.pdf and annex https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/10174757/8278257-anexo-0804-2026-in.pdf · Decreto Legislativo 1241 as consolidated by the Congreso, with article 14 as replaced by Decreto Legislativo 1592, at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/DEEDF5BA81015EF805258AB40052BA3C/$FILE/dec_leg_1241.pdf · Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 3 on Codigo Penal articles 296, 298 and 299, at https://busquedas.elperuano.pe/dispositivo/NL/2244234-2 · Ley 32250 on Codigo Penal articles 297 and 298 at https://busquedas.elperuano.pe/dispositivo/NL/2363369-3 · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas of the Congreso at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf · Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, read in the capture https://web.archive.org/web/20260309092330/https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf · the Reglamento itself on gob.pe at https://www.gob.pe/institucion/minsa/normas-legales/255646-023-2001-sa · Decreto Ley 22095 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · the Constitution, articles 55 and 140, at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025 at https://www.incb.org/incb/uploads/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2026/2510307E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026 at https://www.incb.org/incb/uploads/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/65th_Edition/YL_65th_EN_unedited.pdf, with the editions the previous cell read, the Green List 35th edition at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the Yellow List 64th edition at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf, fetched as well · all fetched on 3 October 2026. The previous cell's sources, carried: Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The finding for this row is an absence from all 244 entries of Anexo N. 2 rather than an entry in it, recorded against the Spanish terms cannabidiol, canabidiol, CBD. · Updated October 3, 2026
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route arises from the drug law for a substance that is not in either lista [Certain]. Artículo 50 treats use for a medical treatment as justified where the drug law does apply [Certain]. The live cell this replaces carried the instruction to travel with any prescription and to confirm with the embassy [Likely, carried].
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Personal use of a small quantity, proximate in time and exclusive, is a falta under artículo 50 and not a crime, punished by a fine, a prevention or treatment programme, or community work [Certain]. That is not the same as saying prison cannot follow. Under artículo 52 the substitute penalties require the convicted person's agreement, and without it the court must convert the unpaid fine into reclusion at one day per third of a unidad tributaria mensual, which on the one to ten unidad range of artículo 50 reaches thirty days [Certain]. A traveller who declines the substitute programme and does not pay is the case this reaches. Decreto 867 states no numerical quantity for any substance and artículo 4 works from the open phrase pequeñas cantidades, so the line between artículo 4 and artículo 3 is judicial and not arithmetic [Certain]. Public consumption and agreed group consumption in private are both caught [Certain]. Medical cannabis has been available on prescription in Chile since 2015 under Decreto Supremo 84 [Likely, carried from the live cell and not re-derived in this pass]. Home cultivation is governed by artículo 8 of Ley 20.000, which sets no plant count; the six plant figure that circulates comes from reform bills and not from the law in force, a correction carried from the live cell and confirmed here in that artículo 8 states no number [Certain]. The live cell also carried a note that a 2025 to 2026 reform tightening penalties was before the Constitutional Court. What I can state is narrower: Ley 21.817 was published on 23 May 2026 and amended artículos 4, 5, 6, 7, 19 and 43 of Ley 20.000, it did not touch artículo 50, and whether it is the instrument that note described is not established. Travel with any controlled medicine in its packaging with the prescription.
Decreto Supremo 867 de 2007 del Ministerio del Interior, reglamento of Ley 20.000, artículos 1, 2, 4 and 5, consolidated text read 21 September 2026 (listas as amended by Decreto 220 de 2022) · Ley 20.000 artículos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 bis, 8, 19, 50, 51, 52 and 55 to 59, consolidated text of 23 May 2026 · Ley 21.817 of 23 May 2026 · Código Penal artículo 21 · leychile.cl · leychile.cl · bcn.cl · unodc.org · Updated September 21, 2026
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Carry the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 consolidation current at 20 September 2026 and the Psychoactive Substances Act 2013 together, because the finding for CBD needs both: the first for the negative and the second for the route that remains. Read the cannabis row alongside this one, and treat the source material of a CBD product as the live question rather than the name on the label. Carry the reasoning and not only the result, because a negative is worth no more than the limb it was tested against, and here that limb is the section 2 exclusion for approved medicines and for substances lacking substantial structural similarity. Carry the classification chain this finding was read against as well: the 2022 and 2025 Classification and Presumption of Supply Orders with their commencement orders, the 2024 pseudoephedrine amendment, and the 2026 Order, which was made but is not treated as law in this dossier because its own section 2 leaves commencement to the Governor-General and no commencement instrument was located by the horizon. Carry the date as well, 20 September 2026, because in New Zealand a classification order can move a substance between classes without a word of the Act changing.
legislation.govt.nz · The power that moves this list is section 4 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, under which the Governor General by Order in Council amends Schedules 1 to 3 subject to approval and commencement machinery. As those schedules stand after the Misuse of Drugs (Classification and Presumption of Supply) Order 2025, effective 27 November 2025, which this project's New Zealand substance dossier checked on 20 September 2026 records as the latest commenced classification instrument located, a 2026 Order was made and no commencement instrument for it was located. That does not rule out a later amendment made or commenced since. · Updated September 21, 2026
Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992, Schedule 2 Part III paragraph 2 (a), two readings recorded and neither adopted · Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992, ss 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 17 and 19, with Schedules 1 and 2 · justice.gov.za · read from the cached text at research/instruments/south-africa/za-drugs-act-140-1992.txt, 84,091 bytes, against the.pdf beside it at 127,460 bytes · the consolidation is dated 29 May 2025 and carries the Act 14 of 2022 substitution of both schedules with effect from 14 December 2022 · Updated September 21, 2026
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, Cap. 245 (No. 4 of 1994), text as at 31 December 2022 revised by the 24th Annual Supplement (Legal Notice 221 of 2023), incorporating the Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) (Amendment) Act, 2022 (No. 4 of 2022), commenced 21 March 2022 · ss. 2, 3, 4, 4A, 4B, 5, 6, 13, 16, 87 and the First to Fourth Schedules · new.kenyalaw.org · Updated October 2, 2026
Belgium, Royal Decree of 6 September 2017, Annexes I to V, the eight Annex IVA generic families and articles 2, 8 and 61, checked for CBD (cannabidiol) with the result that there is no controlled drug entry · the position recorded is a medicines and product one, with the AFMPS stating that a cannabidiol medicine received an authorisation in 2019 but is not currently marketed in Belgium, and that pharmacists may dispense magistral preparations made from pharmaceutical grade cannabidiol where the rules are met · read at https://www.afmps.be/fr/medicaments_et_autres_produits_a_base_de_cannabis_ou_cannabidiol on 18 September 2026 · the decree is at https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/arrete/2017/09/06/2017031231/justel and the Law of 24 February 1921 bilingual consolidation at https://afmps.be/sites/default/files/downloads/LOI-WET-1921-02-24.pdf · the annex text is the AFMPS non official consolidated version, valid from 29 March 2026 with a correction dated 16 July 2026, and the Moniteur belge controls · Updated September 20, 2026
· Narkotikastrafflag (1968:64), read as at amendments through SFS 2024:797, which is the currency the Riksdag prints on the text, carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived
· Every penalty band, fine, date, quantity, article and instrument attributed to the live cell in this row is carried forward from it and was not re-derived in this pass
No euphoriants prescription route arises for the compound itself. Denmark authorises cannabidiol containing medicines through the medicines legislation, which sits outside this bekendtgoerelse and was not read for this cell.
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Declare any controlled medicine on arrival, carry it in its original dispensed container, and carry the prescription or a doctor's letter naming the substance, the dose and the patient. Within the Schengen area a doctor's certificate under Article 75 of the Schengen Convention is the usual document for a controlled medicine. Confirm requirements with the Danish Medicines Agency and with your embassy before travel.
This row's whole answer is the prescription route, and whether an authorised product exists in a given form is a product by product question that this cell does not settle. Sections 3 and 6 of lääkelaki 395/1987 are the provisions the live Finland cell named for this route and they are kept. Where a substance is a medicinal ingredient rather than a listed narcotic, it is handled through the Medicines Act 395/1987, in particular the conduct and import rules in section 3 and the medicinal substances list, and its status turns on individual product classification. This row in particular. The list that does name this row is the medicines list, Finnish Medicines Agency decision 230/2025. Its Liite 1 carries the row at printed line 1699 of the annex text Finlex serves, and the printed row reads «Kannabidioli Cannabidiolum Cannabidiol Cannabidiol». In the printed order of that annex the line above it reads Kangrelori Cangrelorum Kangrelor Cangrelor and the line below it reads Kantaksantiini Canthaxantinum Kantaxantin Canthaxantin.
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Section 24 of huumausainelaki 373/2008 is written for convention listed narcotics and does not describe this row, so the ordinary medicines rules are what apply. Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription. Finland's personal import rules for medicines sit in the Medicines Act 395/1987 and were not read for this cell, so no traveller allowance is stated here. This row in particular. The search behind the absence stated for this row was run in Finnish and the forms were «Kannabidioli», «Cannabidiol», «CBD». Section 24 of huumausainelaki 373/2008, the provision that would otherwise carry a traveller's own medicine past the Act's import and export rules, reaches only products «joita matkustaja käyttää henkilökohtaiseen lääkitykseensä» that contain a substance in one of the convention lists, and this row is in none of them. The list that does name this row is the medicines list, Finnish Medicines Agency decision 230/2025. Its Liite 1 carries the row at printed line 1699 of the annex text Finlex serves, and the printed row reads «Kannabidioli Cannabidiolum Cannabidiol Cannabidiol». In the printed order of that annex the line above it reads Kangrelori Cangrelorum Kangrelor Cangrelor and the line below it reads Kantaksantiini Canthaxantinum Kantaxantin Canthaxantin. Provenance for this row. The consolidated 543/2008 read here is the Finlex text carrying amendments up to 25.6.2026/651, the version Finlex identifies as data.finlex.fi/eli/sd/2008/543/ajantasa/2026-06-26/fin, in force from 10 July 2026, read on 21 September 2026; the consolidated 1130/2014 read here is the Finlex text whose annex was substituted by 650/2026 with effect from 10 July 2026, read on 21 September 2026; and where the medicines list is cited it is the Finnish annex text to decision 230/2025 served by Finlex, read on 21 September 2026.
Finland, cannabidiol, not a named entry of 543/2008 and not a named entry of the annex to 1130/2014, an absence measured by running the Finnish forms recorded in the documentation field against both texts · the entry text, the closing extension clause of its list and the statutory wording are quoted in the other fields and are not repeated here, because this field is split into citation chips on every semicolon · Valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina pidettävistä aineista, valmisteista ja kasveista 543/2008, section 1 and annexes I to V · Valtioneuvoston asetus kuluttajamarkkinoilta kielletyistä psykoaktiivisista aineista 1130/2014, section 1 and its annex · Huumausainelaki 373/2008, sections 3, 5, 7, 23, 23 b and 24 · Rikoslaki 39/1889, chapter 44 sections 5 and 5 a and chapter 50 sections 1, 2, 2 a, 3, 4, 4 a, 5 and 7 · Lääkealan turvallisuus- ja kehittämiskeskuksen päätös lääkeluettelosta 230/2025 and its annexes, under lääkelaki 395/1987 · finlex.fi · finlex.fi · finlex.fi · finlex.fi · 543/2008 read in the consolidated Finlex text carrying amendments up to 25.6.2026/651, the version identified as data.finlex.fi/eli/sd/2008/543/ajantasa/2026-06-26/fin and in force from 10 July 2026, read on 21 September 2026 · 1130/2014 read in the consolidated Finlex text whose annex was substituted by 650/2026 with effect from 10 July 2026, read on 21 September 2026 · Finlex is the Ministry of Justice public legal database, its data is published under CC BY 4.0 and the statutes themselves are outside copyright under section 9 of the Copyright Act 404/1961 · read on 21 September 2026 · finlex.fi · finlex.fi · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule is Ley 913 article 20, which puts a medicine containing a sustancia controlada of Listas I to IV behind an authorised pharmacy and a doctor's prescription or a Ministry of Health form, and article 21 I, which obliges a carrier to require a Ministry of Health or Ministry of Government authorisation before such a substance crosses the customs frontier. Attached to this row: neither article attaches on the reading made here, because both are keyed to a place in the Anexo and no place for this substance was established. That is not a statement that it may be carried freely. It is a statement that the controlled medicines route was not shown to reach it. What the search did return on this row was this. The nearest entry is TETRAHIDROCANABINOLES (Todos los isómeros) in Lista I. Cannabidiol shares a molecular formula with tetrahydrocannabinol, so a purely formal reading of isomer could be argued to reach it, and that reading was considered and rejected: the head noun of the entry is tetrahidrocanabinoles, and cannabidiol is not a tetrahydrocannabinol. Nothing in the Anexo names cannabidiol. A band that article 20 does govern therefore exists close by, and this substance was not found in it or in any other.
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Provenance. The Anexo was read in the Gaceta Oficial edition of Ley 913, edition 947NEC of 23 March 2017, downloaded from the Gaceta at gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo, and cross checked line by line against the copy the Dirección General de Sustancias Controladas publishes at dgsc.gob.bo. The two copies carry the same entries and differ only in line breaks and in a handful of characters where a capital letter I is set as a lowercase letter l in the text layer. The Anexo says on its own face that it reproduces the 1961 and 1971 convention lists as amended in force from 19 September 1987, so it is an old list re enacted in 2017 and it is materially the same list Ley 1008 annexed. Which instrument governs, re derived this pass. Ley 913 did not replace Ley 1008. Its first derogatory disposition derogates article 33 incisos a), q) and r), articles 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 44 of Título II, and Títulos VI, VII and VIII, and nothing else. Título III, the offences and penalties at articles 46 to 55, was left standing and is still the law, and Ley 913 itself contains no criminal penalty at all. What did move is the schedule. Article 33(a), the inciso that defined sustancias controladas by pointing at the Ley 1008 annex, is derogated, and Ley 913 article 5(c) with its own Anexo took its place. Ley 906 of 8 March 2017 separately abrogated the coca title of Ley 1008. So a cell that cites Law 1008 for the list is citing a derogated inciso, while a cell that cites it for the penalty is right. One loose end sits in the statute itself: article 46 still reads plantas señaladas por el anexo a que se refiere el inciso a) del artículo 33, and that inciso no longer exists. [Certain] Carriage. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription, and expect a carrier to ask for the Ministry of Health or Ministry of Government authorisation that article 21 I of Ley 913 obliges it to require before a substance of the Anexo lists crosses the customs frontier.
Bolivia. Ley 913 of 16 March 2017, Ley de Lucha contra el Tráfico Ilícito de Sustancias Controladas, article 5(c) and its Anexo, Gaceta Oficial edition 947NEC of 23 March 2017, read at http://gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo/normas/buscar/913 and cross checked against https://dgsc.gob.bo/normativa/leyes/Ley913.pdf, complete read of Listas I to V with no entry found for cbd · Ley 1008 of 19 July 1988, Título III, articles 46 to 55 and article 33(m), read in the Gaceta Oficial edition at http://gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo/normas/buscar/1008 and against the Ministerio de Gobierno consolidated text at https://web.mingobierno.gob.bo/ · Constitution of 2009 articles 15 and 384 at https://www.senarecom.gob.bo/files/transparencia/CONSTITUCION_POLITICA_DEL_ESTADO.pdf · Ley 906 of 8 March 2017 article 16 at http://gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo/normas/buscar/906 · all read as at 21 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026
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Deferred. Because the placement of this row was not established, no prescription route can be stated for it. Cannabidiol and CBD returned nothing anywhere in the schedule. Paraguay's general rule is that a medicine containing a scheduled substance is dispensed only on the numbered quadruplicate prescription form required by article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 and article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005, valid for eight days and capped at 30 days of treatment, through a pharmacy licensed by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social. That is the country's rule and not a statement that this substance is dispensed under it.
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Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Search result for this row. Cannabidiol and CBD returned nothing anywhere in the schedule. The cannabis entries in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet are for the plant tops and for the resin with its extracts and tinctures, and whether a cannabidiol preparation is an extract of cannabis within that entry was not settled from the text. [Certain] that this is what the December 2025 schedule holds. Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Medicinal cannabis route. Ley 6.007, promulgated 19 December 2017 and published 29 December 2017, creates a national programme for the medical and scientific study of the medicinal, therapeutic and palliative use of the cannabis plant and its derivatives, known as PROINCUMEC, and article 1 says the law will also regulate controlled production for that purpose. Article 2 obliges the programme to guarantee free access to hemp oil and other cannabis derivatives to anyone enrolled, on the conditions the regulation sets, and to admit patients voluntarily and only on strict medical indication. It is regulated by Decreto 9.303 and Decreto 7.761, and the applying authority is DINAVISA. The live cell dated this law to 2018 and called it a bill; it is a law of 2017, and it opens a research and access programme rather than a general medical market. [Certain] on the date and on what article 1 and article 2 say. Recreational sale and purchase remain illegal under Ley 1.340/1988. A self cultivation bill numbered 6602/2020 was rejected, and a DINAVISA resolution numbered 488/2025 is recorded as medical only: both are carried from the live cell and were not re-derived in this pass. Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.
[Certain] Placement read in this pass: not named in the Schedule as read. The reading is of the consolidated First Schedule whose own amendment note at its head ends at התשע"ח and whose schedule pages carry the 1.4.2018 update stamp, with section 7 stamped 1.1.2019 and the file closing with (סוף הפקודה), and a later amendment to the Schedule is not ruled out, and this reading is of that version and no other. Carried from the published entry and from the b162 staging, not re-derived in this pass [Likely]: cannabis is decriminalised by policy rather than legalised. Since 1 April 2019, under a temporary order following the July 2018 Knesset approval, adult personal use or possession of a small amount, 15 g or less, is handled administratively rather than as a criminal offence; private home use is said to be no offence at all, while public use draws a graduated fine, the first about NIS 1,000 or about USD 275, doubled on the second, with the third triggering a criminal investigation or licence loss and the fourth prosecution. Per NIDA and the Anti-Drug Authority cannabis use is still forbidden. Soldiers, prisoners, minors and police are excluded from that framework and remain criminal. The framework is cannabis only and does not extend to other drugs. Also carried and flagged as draft rather than enacted: a 2020 bill to decriminalise up to 50 g did not pass; 2022 Sa'ar draft regulations to make personal use purely administrative and expunge records; a February 2024 redefinition of dangerous drug to only cannabis above 0.3% THC, which would place low-THC CBD outside the Ordinance. The b162 staging also carried an 8 year asset seizure exposure on the trafficking route, which was not re-derived here and is not in the sections read in this pass. Medical cannabis is one of the world's oldest and largest programmes, run by the Israel Medical Cannabis Agency under the Ministry of Health, with a figure of about 130,000 to 140,000 patients and a January 2024 reform that dropped the last resort requirement. None of those figures was verified against a primary source in this pass. [Certain] Re-derived here instead: section 7(c1) of the Ordinance keys its special fine offence expressly to פרטים 1 ו־2 בסימן א' בחלק א', that is to cannabis and cannabis resin and to nothing else among these 88 rows, and sets the fine at NIS 1,000 for a first offence and NIS 2,000 for a second. The Ordinance's own footnote to that subsection states that it came into force on 1.4.2019 and applies for 3 years from that date, which on its face runs to 1.4.2022; the text read here does not record an extension and does not record a lapse, so neither is asserted. Israel has no capital provision for any drug offence.
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance [New Version], 5733-1973, פקודת הסמים המסוכנים [נוסח חדש], התשל"ג-1973, First Schedule and sections 6, 7, 11, 12, 13 to 21, 25 and 31, plus the Second Schedule · consolidated text read on 21 September 2026 from the copy held at research/instruments/israel/israel.txt, 191,538 bytes, which is 138,676 characters and 130,172 once the bidi controls are stripped, sourced from israel2.pdf, whose amendment citation list ends at ק"ת 2746 התשע"ח of 26.7.2018 · the b162 staging attributed the same text to chamber.org.il, carried here and not fetched in this pass. [Certain] The Ordinance's own title page reads התשל"ג-1973 and התשל"ג is 5733, not 5732. [Certain] The First Schedule read here has two סימנים in חלק א' and three live plus one repealed in חלק ב', which the Schedule's own conditions clause confirms by referring to סימן ב' של חלק א' ובסימנים ב' ו־ג' לחלק ב'. · Updated September 21, 2026
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Resolución 200 of 26 September 2025, published in Gaceta Oficial Digital 30388-A of 16 October 2025, sets Panama's Listado Oficial under Ley 14 of 19 May 2016 and Decreto Ejecutivo 183 of 8 June 2018. It is a list of substances permitted for medical and scientific use, not a criminal schedule, so absence from it is not lawfulness and presence on it is not a defence. Law 464 of 2025 creates lawful industrial and commercial routes for hemp derivatives that meet the concentration requirement, administered across three ministries, with the Ministry of Health issuing the non-psychoactivity technical record. Medicinal cannabis is lawful under Law 242 of 13 October 2021, the first such statute in Central America, regulated by the Ministry of Health through licensed pharmacies, limited to oils and extracts rather than smokable flower, with home cultivation not permitted and the first pharmacy open in early January 2026. Hemp is lawful under Law 464 of 2025, published in Gaceta Oficial Digital 30242-D of 24 March 2025, which defines it as «Cáñamo. Planta del género cannabis cuya concentración de THC no sea superior a 1% en peso seco, denominado comúnmente como cannabis industrial.». The live cell's citations of Decree 25 of 16 January 2024 and of Ley 23 of 1986 with Law 13 of 1994 are carried forward unchanged and were not re-derived for this cell. Carry any controlled medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
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Recreational drug use is illegal in Panama and there is no formal decriminalisation threshold, so Panama should not be treated as a decriminalised country. The exact strings searched for this row were «cannabidiol, CBD, cannabinol and cáñamo». Carry the certificate of analysis showing the concentration, because that document and not the product name is what the hemp statute turns on. The live cell attributed the offences to Ley 23 of 1986 read with Law 13 of 1994. Those citations are carried forward here, with the correction that the articles the live cell then quotes are Penal Code articles, and the Penal Code adopted by Ley 14 of 2007 repealed the 1982 Code together with the offences defined elsewhere that it covers. The Penal Code was read in the Texto Único of Ley 14 of 2007 as updated to December 2020 and published by the Órgano Judicial, cross-read against the Procuraduría General de la Nación Texto Único carrying amendments through Ley 70 of 2019; the two agree word for word on articles 312 to 324, whose last amendment was Ley 40 of 4 July 2012. Every law amending the Penal Code that the Órgano Judicial lists after that consolidation was checked and none touches articles 312 to 324. The substance lists were read in Resolución 200 of 2025 as published in Gaceta Oficial Digital 30388-A, in the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and in the Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025. All of it was read as at 21 September 2026. Panama has no death penalty for drugs.
Panama, Código Penal, Título IX, Capítulo V, articles 312 to 324, the drug chapter, with article 324 carrying the definition of droga · Texto Único of Ley 14 of 2007 updated to December 2020, published by the Órgano Judicial · organojudicial.gob.pa · cross-read against the Procuraduría General de la Nación Texto Único carrying amendments through Ley 70 of 2019, which agrees word for word on articles 312 to 324 · ministeriopublico.gob.pa · MINSA Resolución 200 of 26 September 2025, the Listado Oficial of substances permitted for medical and scientific use, which repeals Resolutions 410 of 2018, 691 of 2020, 782 of 2020 and 176 of 2021, published in Gaceta Oficial Digital 30388-A of 16 October 2025 · dnfd.minsa.gob.pa · searched in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 and no entry was returned, which is a finding about those lists and not about the dependence limb of article 324 · Ley 242 of 13 October 2021 on medicinal cannabis and Ley 464 of 2025 on hemp, published in Gaceta Oficial Digital 30242-D of 24 March 2025 · organojudicial.gob.pa · the penalty figures, the citation of Ley 23 of 1986 with Ley 13 of 1994 and the citation of Decreto 25 of 16 January 2024 are carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived, except where this cell states a correction · every law the Órgano Judicial lists as amending the Penal Code after the December 2020 consolidation was checked and none touches articles 312 to 324 · no identification code is cited for this row because no entry for CBD was matched in either convention list, and the national list prints entries without codes · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
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Section 9(3) takes a narcotic outside the section 9 prohibitions where it is needed for making an approved medicine, for industrial use, for treatment, for scientific research or for a lawful activity approved by the Director General, and then only under an instrument issued under section 13: a licence to cultivate, produce, carry, import, export, supply, buy, sell, possess, store or display it, a permit to consume, apply or use it, and a pass to carry or transport it. Section 12(1) provides that no person other than a doctor may prescribe a narcotic as a medicine, and section 12(2) that a narcotic may not be bought more than once on the same prescription. Section 2(27) defines a prescription as the written list of medicines, directions for use or instructions given for the purpose of curing disease by a doctor recognised by the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council.
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Section 9(5) is the only traveller allowance the Act contains, and it is not a personal one: a passenger vessel, aircraft or land vehicle may keep, carry, transport, administer and use medicine-grade narcotics in its first aid box under a doctor's control for emergency treatment, in the quantity fixed by the Government by notification in the official Gazette. No such quantity notification was located for this cell, so no figure is stated. There is no personal allowance for a traveller's own supply anywhere in the Act, and the licence, permit and pass of section 13 are issued by the Director General of the Department of Narcotics Control on conditions fixed by rules. Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, and note that section 36(4) lets a court divert a person who appears to be an addict and nothing more into treatment, with 6 months to 5 years if they refuse it.
Bangladesh, Narcotics Control Act 2018, Act No. 63 of 2018, assented 14 November 2018 and in force from 27 December 2018 by S.R.O. No. 362-Law/2018 of 10 December 2018, as amended by the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 26 of 2020, and the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2026, Act No. 101 of 2026 of 16 July 2026 · First Schedule read in full, all three classes, and section 36 · the Bengali text is the authentic one and section 70(2) gives it priority over any English translation, so this cell was read in Bengali and no translation was relied on · sections read from the consolidated Act at http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-print-1276.html, which does not carry the schedules · the First Schedule read from the Bangladesh Gazette, Extraordinary, 14 November 2018, pages 15051 to 15056, reached through the Department of Narcotics Control's own law page at https://dnc.jhalakathi.gov.bd/pages/law-policy/6978735335ce18e1c0660a39 · read as at 2026-09-17, on which date neither amending Act contained the word তপশিল and the Department's own list of ten instruments carried no schedule amendment, so the First Schedule stands as enacted · Updated September 21, 2026
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On cannabidiol the second instrument is the wider of the two. Entry 1 of the Schedule to the Hadd Order reaches 'The leaves, small stalks and flowering or fruiting tops of the Indian hemp plant', which is wider than section 2(d) of the Act, since section 2(d) excludes 'the seed and leaves when not accompanied by the tops'. Article 4 of the Hadd Order punishes owning or possessing any intoxicant with up to two years, or whipping not exceeding thirty stripes, and fine. Judgment, and deferred: whether a purified cannabidiol isolate is still 'an extract or tincture of hemp' once the cannabinoid that makes hemp an intoxicant has been removed. The Act does not say, and no threshold appears anywhere in it for cannabis, in contrast to the 0.2 per cent morphine floor in section 2(t) and the 0.1 per cent cocaine floor in section 2(h).
Carry a certificate of analysis showing the tetrahydrocannabinol content against the 10 parts per million ceiling. The product's description as full spectrum or broad spectrum decides nothing; the assay does.
毒品危害防制條例 (Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act), last amended 4 May 2022, articles 2 and 4, read to establish absence, with 附表一 to 附表四, 附表二 item 155 and the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, articles 22 and 39. The four schedules and the Act text were read as at the national law database's own data cut of 11 September 2026 · the item lists stand as amended by the Executive Yuan announcement of 25 June 2026, in force 27 June 2026. Read 2026-09-17. · law.moj.gov.tw · law.moj.gov.tw · Updated September 21, 2026
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Medicines containing estupefacientes or sustancias psicotrópicas may be sold to the public only by pharmacies, and only through the talonario oficial, the official prescription book, under article 62. Article 63 requires every prescription to be written on a special numbered form of a specific colour distributed by the health ministry, legibly and by hand, carrying the prescriber's names, consulting room address, identity number and health registration number, the name of the medicine, the quantity in figures and in words without alteration, the patient's and the purchaser's identification, the prescriber's signature and date, and the prescriber's wet seal. Article 53 provides that importing or exporting these substances, pure or contained in pharmaceutical specialities, by parcel, postal package or correspondence is met with confiscation and the customs law. Article 37 makes lawful only what duly authorised persons do, limits the existence and use of these substances strictly to the quantities needed for medical treatment, the legal manufacture of medicines or scientific research, and declares any other activity, use or destination illicit. Because the placement was not established, which of the two article 62 routes would apply to a speciality containing this substance was not established either. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm the current position with a Venezuelan mission before travel.
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Consolidation read: Ley Orgánica de Drogas, sanctioned 18 August 2010, published in Gaceta Oficial 39.510 of 15 September 2010 and reprinted, the reprint read here being the one ordered under article 4 of the Ley de Publicaciones Oficiales to correct Gaceta Oficial 39.535 of 21 October 2010, which was carried in Gaceta Oficial 39.546 of 5 November 2010. The 39.510 scan and the reprint text were compared on articles 131, 149 and 153 and agree on every figure and range. [Certain] that the reprint text read here is the 39.546 one, resolved in this pass against the gazette itself rather than inferred from the reprint order. Gaceta Oficial number 39.546 was read: its masthead is "Numero 39.546" over "Caracas, viernes 5 de noviembre de 2010", its sumario carries the "Aviso Oficial mediante el cual se corrige por error material la Ley Organica de Drogas, sancionada el 18 de agosto de 2010". The issue is a 21 page scan with no text layer and was read through Spanish optical character recognition, so everything below the masthead was matched on recognised text and not on the image. Measured against the reprint text read here, in 24 character blocks: article 153 matches on 22 of 23, article 149 on 20 of 23 and article 134 on 15 of 24, the shortfall in each being optical recognition noise on the scanned side. [Certain as to the masthead and the sumario, which are large print and unambiguous, and therefore as to the issue number and its date and subject.] [Likely as to the per article comparison, which cannot be stronger than the optical recognition it runs on.] Control model, re derived from the statute in this pass. Article 2 applies the Law's control, vigilance and fiscalisation provisions to “el conjunto de sustancias incorporadas en las listas y anexos de los convenios y tratados suscritos y ratificados por la República”, and to further substances determined by the ministries with competence in health and in intermediate industries. Article 3 numeral 12 defines estupefacientes as “cualesquiera de las sustancias, naturales o sintéticas, que figuran en la lista I o la lista II de la Convención Única de 1961, Sobre Estupefacientes, Enmendada por el Protocolo de 1972”, and numeral 29 defines a sustancia psicotrópica as “cualquier sustancia, natural o sintética, o cualquier material natural que figure en las listas I, II, III o IV del Convenio sobre Sustancias Psicotrópicas de 1971”. The Law's own Anexo I, Lista I and Lista II, is a list of controlled chemicals and precursors, not of drugs: it runs from Ácido N-acetilantranilico and Ácido Lisérgico through Efedrina, Ergometrina, Ergotamina, Isosafrol, Piperonal, Safrol and Seudoefedrina to Permanganato de potasio and Anhídrido acético. There is therefore no Venezuelan chemical schedule of drugs to read; the schedule is the Convention schedule. No anchored entry was found for this row. The term list was built from the name columns of the two incorporated INCB lists and from the 2026-09-20 Venezuela dossier's quotation column, matched anchored at the start of the entry name and never as a free substring, and every candidate was read before it was accepted or discarded. Read as at the INCB Yellow List, 65th edition of July 2026, for the 1961 Convention schedules and the INCB Green List, 36th edition of 2025, for the 1971 Convention schedules. That does not rule out a later edition, and article 2 of the Law lets the health and intermediate industries ministries determine further substances, so this is an unresolved row and not a proved absence. Method note. The 2026-09-20 Venezuela dossier was used only as the slug list and as a term list source. Its outcome column, its instrument column and its quotation column were not treated as evidence, and no placement in this batch rests on them; every placement is the entry read in the list the statute incorporates. Sibling name traps were checked rather than assumed: desomorphine, ethylmorphine, nicomorphine, nicocodine, norcodeine and dihydrocodeine are separate entries that anchored matching correctly did not return for the morphine or codeine rows, and brolamfetamine is a separate entry that did not return for the amphetamine row. Carried from the live cell and not re derived here: that there is no medical cannabis programme in Venezuela, that CBD and hemp are treated as illegal, and that only limited scientific research licences exist. [Likely], source is the live 2cb cell dated 2026-06-26, none of it is in the Ley Orgánica de Drogas. Correction carried into every cell of this batch: the gram figures are in article 153 and in article 149, not in article 131. The live cells attributed them to article 131, which prints no quantity at all. The ceiling of this Law is thirty years under the final paragraph of article 149, not twenty five. Routes run for the instrument in this pass. The Asamblea Nacional URL cited on every row of the 2026-09-20 dossier returned HTTP 404 and 5,734 bytes of HTML, so that register is not usable. The UNODC SHERLOC copy returned HTTP 200 and a 9.9 MB scan of the Gaceta Oficial of 15 September 2010, which was read with pdftotext. oas.org redirected every juridico path to its unavailable page. A clean digital text of the reprint was obtained from a Venezuelan law firm reproduction and the two were compared on articles 131, 149 and 153, which agree.
Ley Orgánica de Drogas, arts 2, 3, 34, 37, 53, 60, 62, 63, 130, 131, 139, 141, 142, 149, 150, 151, 153, 154 to 158 and 163, and Anexo I · sherloc.unodc.org · lablabor.com.ve · Constitución de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela arts 43 and 44 · cgr.gob.ve · INCB Yellow List, 65th edition, July 2026 · INCB Green List, 36th edition, 2025 · asambleanacional.gob.ve · Updated September 21, 2026
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Guatemala's traveller rule is article 3 of Decreto 48-92: "Solamente podrá autorizarse la importación, producción, fabricación, extracción, posesión y uso de las drogas en las cantidades estrictamente necesarias, exclusivamente por personas legalmente facultadas y bajo su estricta responsabilidad, para el tratamiento médico, los análisis toxicológicos y farmacológicos, la investigación científica y la elaboración de medicamentos", and "En los centros de comercialización para particulares, su venta requerirá receta médica". No schedule placement was established for this substance, so no controlled-medicine route is stated for it.
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Decreto 48-92 annexes no list of substances. Article 1 reaches the drugs "incluidos en los convenios y tratados internacionales al respecto, ratificados por Guatemala y en cualquier otro instrumento jurídico internacional que sobre esta materia se apruebe", and article 2(b) defines "Estupefacientes y sustancias psicotrópicas" as "Cualquier droga natural o sintética, así considerada en tratados o convenios internacionales de observancia obligatoria en la República de Guatemala, el Código de Salud y demás disposiciones que se emitan para determinar las drogas de uso prohibido a que se refiere la presente ley". An anchored search of the whole 57 KB law text returned no substance name at all, which is the measurement behind that reading. The health authority says the same thing in its own words: MSPAS Normativa 22-2001, section 2, states that "Los Estupefacientes y Sicotrópicos son los enumerados en la Convención Unica de 1961 sobre Estupefacientes, en el Convenio sobre Substancias Sicotrópicas de 1971 y en la Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra el Tráfico Ilícito de Estupefacientes y Sustancias Sicotrópicas y otras Sustancias consideradas como tales por las leyes del país y por las disposiciones dictadas por la autoridad de salud". This row was searched under "cannabidiol", "CBD", and with mechanical spelling variants of those, 5 candidate terms in all, matched anchored at the start of an entry name so that a longer entry containing the term could not be read as this row. None of them began an entry. The term "cannabidiol" returns nothing in either list. Two entries were read and both are about a different constituent or the plant itself: PT 002 in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention names six tetrahydrocannabinol isomers, none of which is this row, and NC 001 in Schedule I of the 1961 Convention is "CANNABIS", described as "the flowering or fruiting tops of the cannabis plant". That second point matters for this row in a way it does not for a synthetic: this substance in plant material may be caught as cannabis even though the isolated compound is nowhere named, and which of the two a given product is was not established here. The lists read were the INCB Yellow List, 64th edition of July 2025, for the 1961 Convention, the INCB Green List, 35th edition of 2024, for the 1971 Convention, the INCB Red List, 23rd edition of July 2025, for Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention, and Acuerdo Gubernativo 54-2003. Those are the three treaties MSPAS Normativa 22-2001 section 2 names, so limb one is now read in full; an earlier version of this cell had read two of the three and substituted a national Acuerdo for the 1988 tables. The Código de Salud and the "demás disposiciones que se emitan" were not obtained, so this row is unresolved rather than absent, and as at those editions the position does not rule out a later national provision reaching this substance. Acuerdo Ministerial 239-2022 amended Listado I of Acuerdo Gubernativo 54-2003, which is direct evidence that these lists move. What follows is Guatemala's published penalty scheme, and it is the country's scheme and not this row's exposure, because whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established. Article 38, "Comercio, tráfico y almacenamiento ilícito", sets prison of twelve to twenty years and a fine of Q50,000 to Q1,000,000, both of those figures being money and neither of them a quantity of any substance. Article 39, "Posesión para el consumo", makes possession for one's own consumption an offence in its own right, at four months to two years and a fine of Q200 to Q10,000, consumption being made out where the seized drug "no exceda de la cantidad razonable para el consumo inmediato". No article states a gram figure for any substance, so the line between personal use and trafficking is judicial. Article 36 sets five to twenty years for sowing or cultivation and article 37 eight to twenty years for manufacture, which puts the ceiling on the conduct articles at twenty years. Article 15 names article 39 among the sentences that may be commuted where the prison term does not exceed five years, at Q5 to Q100 per day. One figure in the superseded cell is corrected here. It put cultivation or manufacture at up to about twenty to twenty five years. Read from the gazette, article 36 sets five to twenty years and article 37 eight to twenty years, so twenty years is the ceiling on those two conduct articles and twenty five was never in the law [Certain, re-derived this pass]. Twenty years is not the maximum term this statute can impose: article 52 still provides thirty years where a death results, now that the words "muerte o" have gone from it. Carried from the live cell and not re-derived in this pass [Likely]: Guatemala has no medical cannabis, a 2016 bill having been rejected, and extradition to the United States is possible under a 1940 treaty.
Decreto 48-92, Ley contra la Narcoactividad, Diario de Centro América, 8 October 1992, arts 1, 2, 3, 12, 15, 36, 37, 38, 39, 52 · congreso.gob.gt · senabed.gob.gt · MSPAS Normativa 22-2001 secs 2 and 5, https://medicamentos.mspas.gob.gt/index.php/legislacion-vigente/normas-tecnicas?download=79%3Ano-22-2001 · INCB Yellow List 64th edition July 2025, read from the Universal Postal Union mirror at https://www.upu.int/UPU/media/upu/files/postalSolutions/programmesAndServices/postalSupplyChain/customs/listCustomsNarcoticDrugsUnderInternationalControlEn.pdf rather than from incb.org · INCB Green List 35th edition 2024, https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf · INCB Red List 23rd edition July 2025, Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention, https://www.incb.org/documents/PRECURSORS/RED_LIST/RED_LIST_E.pdf · Updated September 21, 2026
Romania, CBD, read from Portal Legislativ, the official legislation portal of the Ministry of Justice, and the ANMDMR consolidated text · read as in force on 18 September 2026 · searched in Legea 143/2000, tabelele I-III · verificare Legea 194/2011 and no controlling entry for CBD was found · outcome recorded by the source: NOT APPLICABLE, a completed negative finding · this absence is stated as at the consolidation in force on 18 September 2026 · legislatie.just.ro · legislatie.just.ro · legislatie.just.ro · anm.ro · Updated September 20, 2026
Slovakia, CBD, read from Slov-Lex, the official legal information portal of the Slovak Republic · read as in force on 18 September 2026 · searched through every group of Annex 1 to Act No. 139/1998, its extension clauses and its final line, and no matching listed substance was found · aliases searched: kanabidiol · cannabidiol · CBD · no controlled-substance threshold is given and the section 173(5) life ceiling is not assigned on this record · this absence is stated as at the Act 139 consolidation effective 1 January 2026 and the Criminal Code consolidation effective 18 August 2026 · two of the four links below are the commercial mirror zakonypreludi.sk rather than Slov-Lex · slov-lex.sk · slov-lex.sk · zakonypreludi.sk · zakonypreludi.sk · Updated September 20, 2026
· No. 345 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment
· No. 346 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment
· No. 166 of 2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment, whose one row is printed as an image and was read from the page
· No. 131 of 2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment
· No. 293 of 2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment, dated 13 May 2026 and printing no commencement date of its own
· Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, in operation from 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment
· and Act No. 10 of 2020, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110087?type=amendment, Dangerous Drugs part only. Terms searched: cannabidiol, cbd, cannabinol, thc, tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabis. Read and rejected: First Schedule item 3, the THC row of the Schedule I table, the hexahydrocannabinol row of Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, and the cannabis definition, section 5(2)(f), (2A) and (2B) in Act No. 24 of 2019. Read 3 October 2026, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026
· no entry was found, so no instrument here supports a placement.
If prescribed / medical
Ukraine permits no personal use quantity of a scheduled substance, uses наказ МОЗ № 188 as a criminal grading instrument, and requires a scheduled medicine to satisfy Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» on prescription, packaging, import and customs. Attached to this row the placement is open under record UKR-28. Whether a cannabidiol product is treated in Ukraine as a food supplement, a cosmetic or a medicine depends on its presentation, and this source establishes none of those routes, no import permit and no recognition of a foreign prescription. None was researched. Lawful retail sale in another country is not a Ukrainian authorisation.
Documentation
Carry a certificate of analysis that states the content of every cannabinoid present, not only this one, because the residual content of the compound printed at CAS 5957-75-5 is the figure that decides the practical outcome while record UKR-28 leaves this cannabinoid's own placement open. Carry the retail packaging with its ingredient declaration and the manufacturer's details. A prescribed cannabis based medicine should travel with its prescription, dispensing pack, pharmacy label in the patient's name and a prescriber's letter. The consolidated list was read on 20 September 2026.
Ukraine, Постанова Кабінету Міністрів України № 770 від 6 травня 2000 року, Перелік, таблиці I to IV, read at https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/770-2000-%D0%BF#Text as at 20 September 2026 · absence record UKR-28, no heading matched · the near entry inspected and rejected was the plant heading «Канабіс, рослина» at CAS 8063-14-7, and the isolated cannabinoid heading at CAS 5957-75-5, recorded at UKR-33 in the same source, was not tested for a limb reaching other cannabinoids. List ownership, стаття 7 of Закон України «Про наркотичні засоби, психотропні речовини і прекурсори», https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/60/95-%D0%B2%D1%80#Text. Ceiling, Кримінальний кодекс України стаття 307, https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2341-14#Text. Limitation: logged terms, the abbreviation and "kanabidiol", are Latin against a Cyrillic annex. · the article 44, 305, 307 and 309 penalties stated above are carried forward from this site's published Ukraine entry, which cites the Criminal Code articles 305, 307, 309 and 310, the Code of Administrative Offenses article 44 and Ministry of Health Order No. 188. They were not re-derived from the Code in this pass, and the published entry's own hedges, that the thresholds are very low and that trace amounts have triggered article 309, are carried with them · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The Law provides no prescription route for CBD. Article 23 lets a pharmacist dispense only a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance on a Ministry of Health prescription form, and Article 26's traveller allowances are written for Group I and Group II medicines, so neither reaches this row.
Documentation
The version read for this cell is the annex to Law 15 of 2007 as printed in Official Gazette 2804 of 16 August 2007 at pages 20 to 34, together with the publisher's amendment register for the Law, which on 22 September 2026 listed exactly three amendments and showed a site update of 17 September 2026. The register does not certify that no other instrument exists, so the consolidation is silent on that stronger point. The power that moves these tables is article 4 of the Law, which lets the Council of Ministers add to the attached schedules or change their percentages on the Minister's proposal after a committee of specialists approves, so the list can move without a new Law and all three amendments so far were made that way. The twelve tables reproduce the convention lists: the Group I Schedule 3 heading names Schedule III of the 1961 Convention in its English line and the 1971 Convention in its Arabic line, which is a mismatch inside the Gazette itself, Group II carries the four schedules of the 1971 Convention, and Group III mirrors the two tables of the 1988 Convention down to the note excluding the salts of hydrochloric and sulphuric acid. All twelve tables were read and the name CBD is not printed in any of them; the placement stated above is through the entry quoted, not through an entry bearing this row's own name. The terms searched were cannabidiol, CBD, hemp extract. That sub-claim is stated as those schedules stand after Decision 14 of 2020, the last of the three amendments on the publisher's register for this Law, read on 22 September 2026. The group and schedule placement stated here is not printed in the quotation column of the dossier this lane was given: that column carries a bare entry name on its placement rows and a synthesised Arabic search record on its absence rows, and no group marker on any of its 88 rows, so every placement in this batch was read from the Gazette annex page instead. Bahrain's drug law carries capital exposure, and which offences reach it is set out in the street section of this cell rather than recited as a general fact about the country.
lloc.gov.bh · lloc.gov.bh · lloc.gov.bh · lloc.gov.bh · Law 15 of 2007 on narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, Official Gazette 2804 of 16 August 2007, annex at pages 20 to 34, read 22 September 2026 · Decision 39 of 2016, Official Gazette 3276 of 25 August 2016 · Decision 11 of 2020, Official Gazette 3480 of 16 July 2020 · Decision 14 of 2020, Official Gazette 3492 of 8 October 2020 · Penal Code, Decree-Law No. 15 of 1976, Articles 49 and 50 · the 2019 drug death sentence and the commutation practice are carried forward from the cell this replaces and were not re-derived · Updated September 21, 2026
Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 27 of the Laws of Brunei Darussalam, Revised Edition 2013 (B.L.R.O. 2/2013). The list of controlled drugs sits in the First Schedule to the Act, not in subsidiary legislation, and the empowering section is section 35: "His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Council may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the First and Third Schedules". That power reaches the First and Third Schedules only, so the capital thresholds in the Second Schedule cannot be changed by order. The schedules were last amended by S 12/2012 and consolidated into this Revised Edition · the publisher's own page for Chapter 27 lists five amendment orders ending there, and every later gazette notification under the Act concerns approved institutions and appointments rather than any schedule. This cell was recorded as a measured absence across every part of both schedules and the Regulations. Read from the Attorney General's Chambers copy at https://www.agc.gov.bn/brulaw/misuse-of-drugs-act/ together with the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Chapter 27, Rg 1. For CBD the reading turned on the searches "Cannabidiol" and "Cannabinol". · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. Do not assume a product lawful in its country of purchase is lawful to carry into Iran. Iran’s own entry in the INCB Country Regulations for Travellers, 2025 sheet, admits only original and intact drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, carried with a prescription and in quantities covering the stay, and it says that beyond 6 months you must see a physician in Iran. The contact it gives is ICSA at fda.gov.ir.
Documentation
This is the one row in this batch that is left unconfirmed, and the reason is a conflict inside the instrument rather than silence from it. Iran keeps the death penalty for drug offences and uses it. Article 45, added by the Act of 1396/07/12, which is 4 October 2017, and approved by the Guardian Council on 1396/07/26, which is 18 October 2017, reaches only offences that already carry death or life imprisonment under this Law, and its paragraph (t) sets the quantity limb: «کلیه جرائم موضوع ماده (4) این قانون مشروط بر اینکه بیش از پنجاه کیلوگرم باشد و مواد موضوع ماده (8) این قانون مشروط بر اینکه بیش از دو کیلوگرم باشد و در خصوص سایر جرائم موضوع ماده (8) در صورتیکه بیش از سه کیلوگرم باشد». The quantities are more than 50 kilograms for Article 4 offences, more than 2 kilograms for the Article 8 supply limb, and more than 3 kilograms for the other Article 8 offences of buying, keeping, concealing or transporting, which is how the Head of the Judiciary circular of 1396/10/16, meaning 6 January 2018, reads that paragraph at its own paragraph 7. Below those quantities the older capital wording does not lapse by itself, because Article 45 converts a former death case to grade one imprisonment of up to thirty years and a former life case to grade two imprisonment, with confiscation of drug proceeds in both. The money runs beside that conversion: a grade one fine up to twice its minimum for the former death case and a grade two fine for the former life case. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of Article 45 carry no quantity floor at all, and reach an offender who drew or carried a weapon, a ringleader, a financial backer or investor, an offender who used a person under eighteen or a person lacking capacity, and an offender with a final prior conviction under this Law for death, life or more than fifteen years. Advisory opinion 7/99/136 applies paragraph (c) to the transport of 80 grams of heroin and to the possession of 200 kilograms of opium, which is why a weight under two kilograms is not a safe limit. At least 503 drug related executions were recorded in 2024 and 471 in 2023, roughly half of all executions and carried out by hanging, which the US Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor reports and Harm Reduction International and Amnesty International corroborate. A second figure of 485 for 2024 also sits in this project’s earlier Iran records, unattributed there, and the two were not reconciled, so both are printed rather than one being chosen. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Version read for this cell: the Anti-Narcotics Law of 1367/08/03, which is 25 October 1988, as the publisher’s consolidation carries it, with its 1376, 1380, 1389, 1396 and 1399 amendments, meaning 1997, 2001, 2010, 2017 and 2020, and the fine revision of 1403/03/30, which is 19 June 2024, and the four psychotropic schedules as those schedules stand after the Cabinet decision of 1384/09/13, which is 4 December 2005, both read on 22 September 2026, together with the narcotics-list decree of 1338/05/02, which is July 1959, whose Article 5 carries an amendment of 1352/12/28, meaning 19 March 1974, and the Psychotropics Law of 1354/02/08, which is 28 April 1975. Item 419 of the health invalidation law of 1399/08/05, meaning 26 October 2020, names annexes 1 to 4 of the 1354 Psychotropics Law, and Judiciary advisory opinion 7/1400/434 of 1400/09/09, meaning 30 November 2021, reads that as reaching the 1354 Law’s own original annexes, which later Cabinet decisions had already displaced, so the 1384/09/13 schedules stand. Article 1 of the 1354 Psychotropics Law lets the Ministry revise these four schedules on a recommendation of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, but only with Cabinet approval, publication and a further fifteen days, so a change to the 1971 Psychotropic Substances Convention does not enter Iranian law by itself, and the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules are not the Iranian list. Provenance of the placement: the schedule and entry number stated for this row was read in the instrument itself and was not taken from the project dossier, because no quoted extract in that dossier carries a schedule marker for any substance, measured across all 88 of its quotation cells on 22 September 2026. Older bands survive inside the same articles and are what Article 45 converts. Article 4 band 4 reads death and confiscation above 5 kilograms, with a note giving life imprisonment, 74 lashes and confiscation for a first offence of 20 kilograms or less that was not distributed or sold. Article 8 band 6 reads death and confiscation above 30 grams, with a note giving life imprisonment for a first offence of no more than 100 grams that was not distributed or sold. Before the 1396 Act, meaning before 2017, the reported capital thresholds were far lower, at more than 30 grams of heroin or cocaine and more than 5 kilograms of opium or cannabis. The Anti-Narcotics Law itself dates from 1988 and the substances it incorporates by definition come from the narcotics list decree of 1959. Article 41 excludes authorised medical, research and industrial activity: «ساخت، تولید، خرید، فروش، ارسال، نگهداری، ورود، صدور، مصرف و حمل مواد ممنوع حسب مورد برای مصارف پزشکی، تحقیقاتی و صنعتی با مجوز وزارت بهداشت، درمان و آموزش پزشکی از شمول این قانون مستثنی است», so a medicinal use or a trade name does not by itself establish that the Ministry of Health permission exists. Carry any controlled medicine in its original packaging with the prescription, and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Cabinet decision of 1384/09/13 adopting the four updated psychotropic schedules, replacing those attached to decision 15372/T30726 of 1383/04/28 · davoudabadi.ir · solh.ir · Psychotropics Law of 1354/02/08 · davoudabadi.ir · Judiciary advisory opinion 7/1400/434 of 1400/09/09 · davoudabadi.ir · Anti-Narcotics Law of 1367/08/03, consolidated with the 1376, 1380, 1389, 1396 and 1399 amendments and the 1403/03/30 fine revision · davoudabadi.ir · Act adding Article 45, 1396/07/12 · davoudabadi.ir · Head of the Judiciary circular of 1396/10/16 · davoudabadi.ir · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
No prescribing answer is given for CBD, because section 28 exempts what the Law first caught and this cell has not established that the Law catches it. Section 28(c), the route for use permitted by the Ministry of Health under the direction of a registered medical practitioner, is stated here so the mechanism is on the record, not because a supply of CBD is established. Treat the position as unsettled rather than as permissive.
Documentation
No documentation answer is offered for a cannabidiol product, because carrying advice built on an unresolved placement would be worse than none. Assume nothing you carry protects you, and ask the Myanmar embassy in writing before travelling. Where the rule comes from. The instrument is the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, State Law and Order Restoration Council Law 1/93, as amended by Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law 6/2018. The substance lists are not in the Law itself. Section 2(a) makes a narcotic drug one the Ministry of Health has declared by notification, section 2(b) does the same for a psychotropic substance, and section 30(b), as substituted in 2018, is the power: the Central Body and the Ministries concerned may issue notifications, orders, directives, and procedures. The live lists are Notification 24/2025 for narcotic drugs and Notification 25/2025 for psychotropic substances. Checked 17 September 2026. Placement for CBD: not established. Search log. Notification 24/2025 was read at its cannabis entry and at its entry for cannabis resin, extracts and tinctures; Notification 25/2025 was read at its tetrahydrocannabinol entries; and both were searched for cannabidiol, for CBD and for cannabinol. No cannabidiol entry and no express cannabidiol exclusion was recovered from either. Pure cannabidiol is not individually named, while the cannabis extract entries are drawn broadly enough that a product's source and composition could matter, and the texts read here do not resolve that boundary safely. One limit on this cell is worth stating plainly. A further amending law, NDSC Law 17/2025, is reported to exist, and its text could not be obtained from any of the three routes tried. Nothing here is cited to it, and every section number and every quantity above is quoted from the 1993 Law as amended in 2018.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, SLORC Law 1/93, sections 2, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26 and 28 · https://www.myanmartradeportal.gov.mm/legal/344 | The Law Amending the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law 6/2018, items 3, 20, 22, 25 and 27 · https://www.mfiu.gov.mm/sites/default/files/document/files/The%20Law%20Amending%20the%20Narcotic%20Drugs%20and%20Psychotropic%20Substances%20Law%202018.pdf | Notification 24/2025 · https://www.myanmartradeportal.gov.mm/en/legal/503 | Notification 25/2025 · https://www.myanmartradeportal.gov.mm/en/legal/504 | placement for CBD: not established on this record · Updated September 21, 2026
the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 67/2026, annex, searched for CBD as recorded in the 20 September 2026 dossier · https://qanoon.om/p/2026/rd2026067/ (HTTP 403, a Cloudflare challenge, on 3 October 2026 · read through the 20 September 2026 dossier's verbatim quotations) · Royal Decree 67/2026, decree Articles I to IV, Oman News Agency, 3 September 2026 · omannews.gov.om · Royal Decree 67/2026, Articles I to IV and Gazette reference, Decree.om · decree.om · Royal Decree 17/99, article 4, as superseded, as the live page quoted it · Updated October 3, 2026
Documentation
The наредба has no consolidated text at an official publisher. What was read instead is the official file set: the наредба as adopted by Постановление № 293 of 27 October 2011, then every one of the fourteen amending Постановления in order, each downloaded as the Word file the Council of Ministers legal information system publishes. Приложение № 1 was replaced whole by Постановление № 253 of 2013, so the 2013 text and not the 2011 one is the base for Списък I. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. One § of Постановление № 184 of 2023 amends a different instrument, Постановление № 23 of 1998 on the prices of narcotic substances for court proceedings, and its rows were excluded from the search rather than read as schedule entries. The Penal Code figures in the street paragraph are carried forward from the live Bulgaria cell and were not re-derived here, so the Penal Code itself was not read for this row. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Bulgaria, Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, all three списъци searched and no entry found for CBD · the наредба as adopted, with its full amendment chain, at https://pris.government.bg/document/65505dc00d92c4be0a95ef8ecc4e8bbd · Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите, чл. 3, ал. 2, чл. 4, ал. 2, чл. 58 and чл. 60, in the consolidated text published by the Ministry of Health at https://www.mh.government.bg/bg/normativni-aktove/zakoni/kontrol-varhu-narkotichni-veshtestva-i-prekursori/ · the Penal Code figures in consequences_street are carried forward from the live Bulgaria cell and were not re-derived in this pass · the live cell's own citation for those figures is Penal Code Arts 354a, 354b and 354c with the Law on Control of Narcotic Substances and Precursors (ZKNVP) · the lists were read as they stand after Постановление № 49 of 8 May 2025 and read on 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
Lithuania, CBD, read from the official Register of Legal Acts and the Seimas legal acts portal · read as in force on 18 September 2026 · searched in Health Minister Order No. 5, all four schedules, and then in Order V-239, and no entry for CBD was found · Lithuanian search terms recorded: kanabidiolis · cannabidiol · CBD · Order V-239 prints no small, large or very large amount for this row · this absence is stated as at the consolidations of Order No. 5 and Order V-239 that begin 18 June 2025 · e-tar.lt · e-tar.lt · e-tar.lt · e-seimas.lrs.lt · Updated September 20, 2026
· stated as in force on 18 September 2026
· the source states that Annex 1 to Minister of Social Affairs Regulation No 73, Lists I to VI, carries no entry for CBD, and records no search terms for this row
· the governing regime recorded by the source is no regime named in what was read, which is a gap rather than a permission
· this absence is stated as at the version of Annex 1 in force on 18 September 2026 and the schedule review covers the amendment effective 31 December 2024
· links below are the source compilation's own source map rather than per-row provenance
Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for CBD, and get the State Agency of Medicines of Latvia to confirm the position in writing before you travel rather than at the border. That is the carriage answer and it is short because no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for CBD appears anywhere in what was read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Provenance follows. The controlling text was read on likumi.lv, the official consolidated law portal of Latvia, on 18 September 2026: Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force and application of the Criminal Law, the Circulation Law, and the Criminal Law itself. The basis recorded for this row is an express exclusion written into the controlling entry. The instrument pages carry no separate reuse licence, so this row uses short attributed quotation and a link to the official text.
Latvia, CBD, read from likumi.lv, the official consolidated law portal of the Republic of Latvia · read as in force on 18 September 2026 · located in Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force and application of the Criminal Law, at item 11(10), in Schedule I, which covers prohibited especially dangerous narcotic and equivalent psychotropic substances and plants · the entry itself is quoted in full in the legal status field and is not repeated here · the basis is an express exclusion written into the controlling entry · Annex 2 prints no single quantity pair for this row · Circulation Law section 3(2) points to Annex 2, and Criminal Law section 253 with its superscript one and superscript two variants supplies the penalties · Annex 2 is the 29 April 2021 text as amended to 13 November 2025 · likumi.lv · likumi.lv · likumi.lv · Updated September 20, 2026
Slovenia, Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih drog, article 2 and the annex in Groups I, II and III · read at https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=URED7970 with the annex at https://pisrs.si/api/datoteke/integracije/403462486 on 20 September 2026. For this row the annex search did not settle the question either way. The Production of and Trade in Illicit Drugs Act, the ZPPPD, article 33, at https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO1388 · the Criminal Code, the KZ-1, articles 186 and 187, at https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO5050. Annex entry headings are printed in capitals in the original and are re-voiced here in normal case. The fifteen year ceiling at article 186, paragraphs 2 and 3, and the absence of any death penalty, are stated by the dossier read for this cell. The fine band of roughly 42 to 209 euro under article 33, the one to ten and three to fifteen year ranges under article 186 and the six months to twelve years under article 187 are carried forward from the Slovenia entry already published and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass · they do not contradict the ceiling the dossier states. The register publishes the Uredba, its annex, the Act and the Criminal Code for public reading, which is not an unrestricted licence to republish, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced. No judicial ruling is relied on, and product composition, structural identity, medicinal authorisation and intent all remain fact sensitive. The dossier names no edition or amendment date for the annex, and this does not rule out a later amendment. · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The dossier carries no prescription information and no traveller rule for Serbia at all, so this cell defers rather than inventing one. The country level question, meaning which Serbian body authorises a controlled medicine carried in, what paperwork it wants, what quantity it allows and how long an authorisation runs, was not established by the source behind this batch and has to be settled with the Serbian authorities before travel. On this row the deferral is doubled, because the placement is unresolved as well. The dossier records no Spisak row for CBD, so there is no schedule position to attach a route to, and a cell that described a prescription pathway here would be describing a regime it has not shown applies. There is no standalone placement to attach a route to, and the product question is decided by content and regime rather than by this compound being named.
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The checkable fact in this cell is the search, not the answer. The negative search recorded here ran the term «CBD; kanabidiol» across Lista 1 to 7 on 20 September 2026 against the Spisak at Službeni glasnik RS 12/2026, and returned no exact printed row. Check the tetrahydrocannabinol content and the product category of the specific item, because those are what decide the Serbian answer and neither of them is settled by the compound name. Carry any medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and ask the Serbian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Do not treat an unresolved row as a clearance, and do not carry a threshold figure for CBD from another country's law, because Serbia prints none for anything. The citation behind this cell is document level and is the same link for all 88 Serbian substances.
Serbia, complete list negative search across Lista 1 to 7 of the Spisak psihoaktivnih kontrolisanih supstanci annexed to the Pravilnik o utvrđivanju Spiska psihoaktivnih kontrolisanih supstanci, Službeni glasnik RS 12/2026, Član 2, for the term «CBD · kanabidiol», with the final Lista 7 row and the salts clauses checked and no exact printed row accepted, no standalone entry named, and the result for a finished product turning on source, tetrahydrocannabinol content and product regime rather than on the compound being listed · Criminal Code arts 246 and 246a with art. 246(5) and art. 45(1) carrying the document level 20 year ceiling that would apply only if the list were found to reach this substance · read at https://www.paragraf.rs/propisi/pravilnik-o-utvrdjivanju-spiska-psihoaktivnih-kontrolisanih-supstanci.html for the Spisak and https://www.paragraf.rs/propisi/krivicni-zakonik-2019.html for the Criminal Code, a commercial republication in Latin script rather than the Cyrillic text of the Službeni glasnik RS. The dossier holds one link value for all 88 Serbian substances, so this citation is document level and not per substance, and nothing in it should be read as a source pinned to this substance alone. The dossier's own link field ran the two addresses together into one string with no separator between them. Read as at 20 September 2026. · the article 246, 246a and 247 penalties stated above are carried forward from this site's published Serbia entry, which cites the Criminal Code articles 246, 246a and 247 and the Law on Psychoactive Controlled Substances. They were not re-derived from the Code in this pass, and that entry's own statement that small quantity is not numerically defined is carried with them · Updated September 21, 2026
Al-Waqa'i al-Iraqiyya No. 4446 of 8 May 2017, Law No. 50 of 2017 with its annexed schedules: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4446.pdf · Ministry of Health Statement 197 of 2021 adopting updated schedules in replacement, al-Waqa'i al-Iraqiyya No. 4651 of 25 October 2021: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4651.pdf · Statement 33 of 2023, No. 4711 of 13 March 2023: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4711.pdf · Statement 238 of 2023, No. 4737 of 18 September 2023: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4737_331.pdf · Statement 348 of 2024, No. 4804 of 2 December 2024: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4804_compressed_161.pdf · Statement 347 of 2025, No. 4849 of 17 November 2025: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/1b8a5aada31e000a_4849_compressed.pdf · the 2024 death-sentence count and the 15 year personal-use figure are carried forward from the previous cell and not re-derived, per the US State Department and Iraqi court statements reported by 964media and The New Region · secondary references carried forward from the previous cell and not re-derived: https://sherloc.unodc.org/ · unodc.org · hri.global · travel.state.gov · 2017-2021.state.gov · incb.org · euda.europa.eu · refworld.org · this project's Iraq substance dossier was checked on 20 September 2026 and its post-enactment amendment route is superseded here by the five Official Gazette statements named above · the Washington Institute · Updated September 21, 2026
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Carry a certificate of analysis showing the delta-9 THC content, the original sealed packaging with its labelling, and the prescription if the product was dispensed to you as a medicine. That is the row where a laboratory document is worth more than a prescription, because the printed limit is a concentration and not a permission. Do not rely on the product being legal where it was bought, and do not decant oil into an unlabelled bottle. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row. The Schedule 3 entry and its 0.3 per cent exclusion were read on 17 September 2026.
Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 3 cannabis-product rule with the cannabidiol entry «الجدول رقم (3): كانابيديول» and the printed exclusion for a CBD-predominant oil, extract or preparation at not more than 0.3 per cent delta-9 THC, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions where the product is controlled, and article 37 the amendment power including the express power to change the stated percentages · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026
· corroborated by the Advocates for Human Rights, Amnesty International and Harm Reduction International
Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is a completed negative search on «CBD; kanabidiol» through the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara and through to the final page of Ligji nr. 17/2026, which settled nothing, so the traveller rule is stated at country level and the medical question for cannabidiol is deferred with it rather than answered.
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The record read for this row is a completed negative search on «CBD; kanabidiol» through the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara and through to the final page of Ligji nr. 17/2026, with the tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and no printed entry accepted. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Because the placement is unsettled, ask the Albanian authorities about cannabidiol specifically rather than relying on its absence from the search. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.
Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · this cell rests on a completed negative search on CBD, kanabidiol, run through the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara and through to the final page of Ligji nr. 17/2026, which accepted no printed row and no bounded class match · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The source carries no prescription column, so no per substance medical route is asserted here. The country level rule it does state is that scheduled medicines and other prescription products remain subject to Закон за лековите и медицинските средства and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and that a brand or street label is resolved through proved active ingredients. Placement for this row: no printed entry was accepted, so there is no listing to attach a medical route to. Whether there is a lawful medical route in North Macedonia for cannabidiol is deferred on both limbs, the placement and the route, because the source settles neither.
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Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and expect the prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements under Закон за лековите и медицинските средства to be the measure, because the source states no separate traveller permit and no import certificate scheme of its own. A brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient, so carry paperwork that names the active ingredient and not only the product name. Because the placement is unsettled, paperwork is the only thing a traveller can control here, and paperwork that names the active ingredient is what a border officer can check against a list. The placement read for this row, a complete list negative search for CBD; kanabidiol returning no accepted entry, was read as at 20 September 2026 in the classification list at Службен весник на РСМ бр. 104/2021.
North Macedonia, Листи за класификација на супстанции и растенија, Службен весник на РСМ бр. 104/2021, no substance row accepted · complete list negative search for CBD · kanabidiol · terminal check over all 23 gazette pages including the signature page · the lists are made under член 21 став 2 of Закон за контрола на опојни дроги и психотропни супстанции, so the minister of health owns the substance names and the statute does not · penalties at Кривичен законик, Article 215(1) for the ten year ceiling and Article 215(2) for the reduced offence · lists read at https://malmed.gov.mk/wp-content/uploads/Listi_za_klasifikacija-opoji-drogi_i_psihotropni_supstanci-Sl.Vesnik-.br_.104_od_2021.pdf and the consolidated control Act read at https://diz.gov.mk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ZAKON-ZA-KONTROLA-NA-OPOJNI-DROGI-I-PSIHOTROPNI-SUPSTANCII.pdf · the publisher makes these available without granting an unrestricted republication licence, so only what verification requires is reproduced here · read as at 20 September 2026 · carried forward and not sourced in this pass: the three to ten year band at Article 215, the six months to three years band for the lesser-quantity paragraph added in September 2009, the chapter 21 locator, Article 216 for facilitating or enabling use, Article 217 for severe bodily injury or health damage through those offences, the absence of a separate personal-possession offence, and the reported prosecutorial working thresholds of about 2 g of cocaine, 2 g of heroin and 5 g of cannabis are taken from the published 2cb entry for North Macedonia. They were not re-derived from the Кривичен законик or from any statute text in this pass, no web source was consulted, and the thresholds remain reported prosecutorial practice and not statutory. The chapter 21 locator is corroborated by that published entry and is still unverified against the Кривичен законик itself. The dossier read for this pass supports only the ten year ceiling at Article 215(1) and the existence of a reduced offence at Article 215(2) · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
No traveller rule for Bosnia and Herzegovina is stated in the sources read at all, so the medical route is deferred here rather than described: nothing in the material read says what a visitor must hold to bring a controlled medicine in, who authorises it, or whether a foreign prescription counts. What is settled is this substance's placement, and it is this: this reading did not establish that the list reaches this compound by name, while the plant entry it comes from does reach extracts, so a preparation's status turns on a question the material read does not answer. Do not read a placement as a medical permission, and do not read the missing rule as the absence of one.
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Products sold openly elsewhere are not evidence about this list, and the plant entry's extracts limb is the thing to check. The reading behind this answer was made on 20 September 2026 against the list attached to the 2006 Law, as consolidated through Official Gazette 56/26 with the remifentanil move at 58/26, and that date is the whole horizon of the claim: a later amendment is not ruled out. Because the no traveller rule is stated, the documents to carry for any controlled medicine are not listed in the material read and have to be settled with the authorities before travel.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, the list attached to the 2006 Law, as consolidated through Official Gazette 56/26 with the remifentanil move at 58/26, Tables I to III · no entry established for the identifier cbd on this pass · no near entry was recorded for this substance, the only search string the record names is the Latin identifier, and it names no Bosnian language form that was tried · list read at https://www.sluzbenilist.ba/page/akt/Xy4oDjohz4nh78h772k1Q= · separate quantity instrument read at https://sluzbenilist.ba/page/akt/BWhSA8RjiKk=, which returned no entry for this substance · Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, articles 43 and 238, read at https://www.paragraf.ba/propisi/fbih/krivicni-zakon-federacije-bosne-i-hercegovine · the article 195 penalty detail, the misdemeanour track and the Brčko fine figures stated above are carried forward from this substance's published 2cb.com entry as it stood at its last_updated of 2026-07-14, with the caveats that entry attached to them, and were not re-derived from statute text in this pass · read as at 20 September 2026, and reading it on that date does not rule out a later amendment · Updated September 21, 2026
Georgia, Law No. 624 and its annexed Lists I to IV, with Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia carrying the penalty ceiling · this row rests on absence record GEO-28 against those annexes, with the search set "CBD" and "kanabidiol" and the rejected comparison «კანაფი, Cannabis მცენარე». Read in the final consolidated text on the Legislative Herald of Georgia, which the dossier calls Matsne, on 20 September 2026. The rejected comparison cited here is the accepted plant entry among these substances, so the absence is about an isolate and the plant entry is unaffected by it. The set that produced this record used two genuinely different names for the substance rather than one name in two cases. No per row link exists in the dossier this cell is built from, which carries no web address for this substance or for any other, so the instrument is cited in prose and no address is given · none has been taken from the previous version of this cell or from anywhere else. The dossier's outcome for this row is not verified. · Updated September 21, 2026
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Carry nothing on the strength of this row. It records a search rather than an answer, so it is neither permission nor prohibition, and the question belongs to the Armenian Ministry of Health or the nearest Armenian embassy before you travel rather than to a border officer after you arrive. The placement carried against is an unresolved annex position held as ARM-28, and nothing else. It was read on 20 September 2026 against the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026. Any written answer should distinguish an isolate from hemp material, because the annex line is a plant line.
Armenia, version specific absence record ARM-28, no accepted annex entry · the annex to Government Decision N 1129-Ն of 21 August 2003, controlled lists 1 to 4 · version read is the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026 · penalties at the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, Article 393(3) for the 12 year ceiling and Article 393(4) to (6) for the significant, large and especially large bands measured from the Government's minimum small amount figure · search set as recorded in the source, «CBD» and «kanabidiol», all Latin script · official current incorporation of Decision N 1129-Ն at https://www.arlis.am/hy/acts/205965 · official amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026 at https://www.arlis.am/en/acts/222947 · official Criminal Code Article 393 at https://www.arlis.am/hy/acts/153080 · official narcotics law «Թմրամիջոցների և հոգեմետ նյութերի մասին» at https://www.arlis.am/hy/acts/181155 · read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Montenegro's traveller rule in this reading is a country level one and not a substance level one: scheduled medicines and other prescription products remain subject to the Zakon o ljekovima and to prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street label is resolved through proved active ingredients. There is no placement to attach on this row, because the search for «CBD; kanabidiol» returned no Prilog entry and no separate product regime was identified for it either, so both halves of the question are open, which is a stronger warning than either half alone. The dossier carries no prescription column at all, which was confirmed by tools/check-dossier.py, so no per substance medical route was established here: no import permit route, no personal quantity ceiling and no certificate requirement was read for this row, and none has been invented for it. The reading behind this row is a completed negative search for «CBD; kanabidiol» with no accepted entry.
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Carry the specific molecule into any further check rather than the slug, and search the Prilog under the name printed on the product: the terms searched here were «CBD; kanabidiol» and the reading was taken on 20 September 2026. Treat the result as a negative search against a named version of the list rather than as permission. The consolidated control Act was read at https://www.gov.me/en/documents/afd3651b-7fdd-43b9-b324-6e1e1a1a36cb and the Ministry schedule at https://www.gov.me/dokumenta/5aa4ae6f-0e4b-4f30-8c5e-75f9e413b019 on 20 September 2026. No express open reuse licence was located on either page, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link. The record this advice rests on is a completed negative search for «CBD; kanabidiol» with no accepted entry.
Montenegro, Pravilnik o utvrđivanju spiska droga, psihotropnih supstanci i bilja koje se može koristiti za proizvodnju droga, 56/2012 as amended by 54/2015, Član 1 and Prilog, complete list negative search for CBD and kanabidiol with the amended Prilog and its final plant table as the terminal check and no accepted entry · Član 4 of the Zakon o sprječavanju zloupotrebe droga is the empowering provision, and the fifteen year ceiling at Article 300 of the Krivični zakonik is the drug offence maximum this dossier prints on every row rather than a figure established for this one. The consolidated control Act was read at https://www.gov.me/en/documents/afd3651b-7fdd-43b9-b324-6e1e1a1a36cb and the Ministry schedule at https://www.gov.me/dokumenta/5aa4ae6f-0e4b-4f30-8c5e-75f9e413b019 on 20 September 2026. No express open reuse licence was located on either page, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link. The Prilog was read as those tables stand after the 54/2015 amendment, and this does not rule out a later amendment made under Član 4 · the reading this row rests on is a completed negative search for CBD and kanabidiol with no accepted entry · the Article 300 penalty bands stated in consequences_street are carried forward from this site's published Montenegro entry, which cites the Criminal Code at Official Gazette 70/2003 consolidated through 110/2023, attributes the roughly two to fifteen year figure to the United States State Department narcotics report and records that the Article 300(1) to (5) paragraph ranges are not individually pinned there · they were not re-derived from the Krivični zakonik in this pass · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Because the Resolution does not reach CBD, it supplies no prescribing rule for it and none is invented here. Kazakhstan runs a separate category of сильнодействующие и ядовитые вещества, potent and poisonous substances, which Criminal Code Article 301 punishes and which is fixed by its own list. That list was not read in this pass, so silence in Resolution No. 470 is not a finding that CBD is unregulated in Kazakhstan, only that this instrument does not schedule it.
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Provenance. All three lists approved by Government Resolution of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 470 of 3 July 2019 approving the Список наркотических средств, психотропных веществ и прекурсоров, подлежащих контролю в Республике Казахстан and the Сводная таблица of small, large and particularly large sizes, the Список in its four tables, the Сводная таблица in its four tables, the substituent list and the veterinary medicines list, were read from the consolidated text at https://zakon.uchet.kz/rus/docs/P1900000470 on 2026-09-21, with the tables parsed by column position. The copy read carries the amendment of 24 February 2026 made by Government Resolution No. 111, and the Сводная таблица is wholly in that redaction, so every size quoted here is the 24 February 2026 text. This cell asserts an absence, so it names the version of the list it read and does not rule out a later one adding CBD.
Kazakhstan, Government Resolution of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 470 of 3 July 2019 approving the Список наркотических средств, психотропных веществ и прекурсоров, подлежащих контролю в Республике Казахстан and the Сводная таблица of small, large and particularly large sizes, all three approved lists, read at https://zakon.uchet.kz/rus/docs/P1900000470 on 2026-09-21 · the copy states с изменениями на 24.02.2026 and the Сводная таблица is в редакции постановления Правительства РК от 24.02.2026 № 111. Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Code No. 226-V of 3 July 2014, articles 296, 297 and 297-1, read at https://prg.kz/Document/?doc_id=31575252 · the death penalty was removed from that Code by the Law of 29 December 2021 No. 89-VII. · Updated September 21, 2026
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: Ley 151/2022 article 235.2, «privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte», reaches this row. It reaches it through cannabis plant material: article 235.1(d) punishes whoever «cultive la planta Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, u otras de propiedades similares o, a sabiendas, posea semillas o partes de dichas plantas», at four to ten years and with no test of effect. Five limbs of article 235.2 reach such a case without asking whether the thing held is a drug: limb (a) where «los hechos a los que se refieren los apartados anteriores» are committed by a public official, limb (d) where «en la comisión de los hechos previstos en el apartado anterior» a person under eighteen is used, limb (e) where «los hechos descriptos en el apartado 1» take place near a school, limb (f) a link to organised crime, and limb (h) a prior record for a similar offence. For a cannabidiol extract the exposure is not established: the 1961 Lista I placement of cannabis extracts points toward an extract being one of the «drogas ilícitas», but the Code never cross refers to the Conventions, so whether article 235.1(a) on introducing a drug into the national territory or article 236(b) on possession reaches it no text read settles. Resolución 23/2020 sets no penalty of its own: resuelvo tercero provides that on detection the competent authorities «actúan según sus facultades y en cumplimiento de la legislación vigente». Trafficking, production, transport, introducing into or taking out of the national territory, possession with intent to traffic, cultivation of cannabis, and knowingly possessing its seeds or parts are article 235.1, punished by four to ten years. Simple possession «sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa» is article 236, which sets three tiers, each a prison term or a fine «o ambas»: article 236(a) one to three years «cuando se trate de cocaína o de otras sustancias de efectos similares o superiores», article 236(b) six months to two years «cuando se trate de Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, o sus derivados», and the residual limb article 236(c) six months to one year «cuando se trate de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares no comprendidas en los apartados anteriores». Article 237.1 covers a professional prescribing outside therapeutic purposes and an official who permits a drug's introduction into or extraction from the country, and article 238 covers breach of the control measures. Article 235.5 adds confiscation of assets «si procede». Article 235.2 provides: «La sanción es de privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte» where any of eight aggravating circumstances applies, among them «si los hechos se realizan con cantidades relativamente grandes de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», international trafficking, commission by a public official, use of a person under eighteen, commission near a school, a link to organised crime, and a prior record for a similar offence. The quantity that triggers the large quantities limb is not stated as a number anywhere in the Code: the phrase is «cantidades relativamente grandes» and no gramme figure appears in the Code. Death is not mandatory: article 33.1 provides that «La sanción de muerte se ejecuta por fusilamiento y solo se aplica, excepcionalmente por el tribunal, en las formas más graves de consumación de los delitos para los que está establecida», and article 33.2 excludes persons under twenty and women who were pregnant at the time of the act or at sentencing.
If prescribed / medical
A prescription does not open the border for cannabis plant material. Resolución 23/2020 resuelvo primero applies «aun cuando se porten certificados médicos que justifiquen su consumo», and it bars import, possession, transport and export «con fines terapéuticos o recreativos». A cannabidiol medicine falls under the recital in Resolución 104/2022 on «los preparados farmacéuticos que contienen marihuana o sus derivados» [Likely], and no cannabis preparation is among the products its annexes admit. Inside Cuba, article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», and article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
Documentation
No document read makes a cannabis or cannabidiol product admissible. Resolución 23/2020 covers travellers, parcels and goods in transit alike and applies to the plant «aun cuando se porten certificados médicos», and Resolución 104/2022 authorises travellers to bring only the controlled preparations its annexes and resuelvos name, none of which is a cannabis product. Advice, not a rule: leave cannabidiol products, and cannabis branded goods, out of luggage and parcels to Cuba.
Ministerio de Salud Pública, Resolución 23/2020, dated 5 February 2020, Gaceta Oficial No. 36 Extraordinaria de 9 de julio de 2020, GOC-2020-484-EX36, pages 332 to 334, resuelvos primero to sexto, in force on publication under resuelvo sexto, 366,812 bytes, sha256 beginning 4092fa57c11ea4e9 · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · Ministerio de Salud Pública, Resolución 104/2022, Gaceta Oficial No. 28 Extraordinaria de 12 de abril de 2022, GOC-2022-337-EX28, recitals, resuelvos primero to vigesimoprimero and Anexos I and II, 982,320 bytes, sha256 beginning 8fcdc4e6cec73bcf · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · International Narcotics Control Board, Lista Amarilla, 64th edition, July 2025, the 1961 Convention Lists in force, 1,540,645 bytes, sha256 beginning fdeb6a55569fc4d9 · incb.org · Cuba, Ley 151 de 2022, Código Penal, Gaceta Oficial No. 93 Ordinaria de 1ro. de septiembre de 2022, in force «a partir de los noventa días de su publicación» under its disposición final segunda (the date 1 December 2022 carried by the earlier entry is not re-derived here), articles 33, 34 and 235 to 238, read from the gazette PDF fetched on 3 October 2026, 907,882 bytes, sha256 beginning eff887708aa188d9, byte identical to the copy the Fiscalía General de la República publishes · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · fgr.gob.cu · Ministerio de Salud Pública, Resolución 25/2022, Gaceta Oficial No. 22 Extraordinaria de 24 de marzo de 2022, GOC-2022-295-EX22, resuelvos primero to décimo, read from the gazette pages as published by CECMED, the Cuban medicines regulator, 246,808 bytes, sha256 beginning 7f9bb2f922eb0fcc · cecmed.cu · all read on 3 October 2026 · no dossier was used · Updated October 3, 2026
· the terms recorded are «cannabidiol» and «cbd» with spelling variants and the chemical name, and the row boundary the dossier records for that search is «tests cannabidiol independently and does not inherit cannabis or THC status.»
· read at https://mola.gov.gy/laws-of-guyana, the Ministry of Legal Affairs Laws of Guyana collection. The citation behind this cell is document level and not per substance. The source document carries exactly one hyperlink target for all 88 of its rows, and what it calls a links column holds constructed text such as «cbd schedule | cbd penalty» rather than a web address, so no page, paragraph or deep link exists for this row and none is invented here. Many of the dossier's entry and search strings are recorded in Spanish language or international nonproprietary form rather than in the English wording a Guyanese statute prints, so every string here is reproduced exactly as the dossier holds it and is not offered as the literal printed text of the Schedules
· that discrepancy is recorded rather than resolved. Read as at 20 September 2026.
· Dangerous Drugs (Application) Order, 2024, an unexecuted draft that the Bahamas legislation portal serves from its Bills directory, read but not relied on
Law 673 gives this row no prescription route because the prescribing and dispensing articles, 80 to 95, are written for the substances listed in Tables 2 and 3. A cannabidiol preparation made under a Law 178 licence is sold locally only to the pharmaceutical establishments defined in the pharmacy profession law, under article 4 of that Law and in compliance with Law 673; that is a supply chain rule and not a traveller's route. Law 673 carries no traveller allowance and no personal importation permit for a patient arriving with medicine: article 57, as amended by Law 193 of 24 May 2000, routes every import and export through a prior authorisation from the Minister of Public Health via the Ministry's Narcotics Department, and no lighter traveller route was found.
Documentation
The version read for this cell is the four tables annexed to Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, in two State published consolidations read on 22 September 2026: the Ministry of Public Health file Legislation Nationale, Substances placees sous controle, whose name carries the seventh modification of January 2019 and which the Ministry's narcotics page offers in Arabic as the updated version of the tables annexed to narcotics law 673/98, and the Lebanese University Centre for Legal Informatics note on the annexed tables, which carries the decree by decree amendment history. Article 7 is the power that moves these tables: it makes the four annexes a regulatory instrument that may be changed by adding an entry, striking one out or moving an entry from one table to another, by decree issued on the proposal of the Minister of Health, so the lists can move without a new Law. Article 8 requires an entry to be printed under the substance's international common name, or its scientific name where there is no common one, which is why a brand, a plant or a street name is not itself an entry. Article 5 sets the tiers the penalties follow: Table 1 is the plants and substances of high danger with no medical use, Table 2 is the plants and substances of high danger that do have a medical use, Table 3 is the dangerous plants and substances that have a use in medicine, and article 6 puts the precursors in Table 4. Law 178 was read in full, including article 36 on the implementing decrees, article 37 repealing contrary provisions and article 38 on entry into force. It sets no numerical threshold itself: the figure a reader may have seen quoted is a policy proposal and not a provision of the Law, and no percentage is stated here. Whether the implementing decrees under article 36 have issued was not established. The two consolidations do not agree and the union of them is the only defensible reading, so this cell names which one printed the entry it relies on. The Ministry file carries entries the University note lacks, among them Ketamine at the end of the Table 2 list of the 1961 Convention Schedule I, Etizolam and Phenazepam at the end of the Table 3 list of the 1971 Convention Schedule IV, Flubromazolam in Table 1, and the mephedrone, methoxetamine, para-methoxymethylamphetamine and 4,4-dimethylaminorex entries in the Table 1 list of the 1971 Convention Schedule I. The University note carries what the Ministry file cannot, because it is six years older: the two decrees of 16 May 2025. The two also disagree on a heading. The Ministry file heads the first block of Table 1 as Schedule I of the 1961 Convention while the University note heads the same block as Schedule IV, and the six opening entries, acetorphine, cannabis and cannabis resin, cetobemidone, desomorphine, etorphine and heroin, are the 1961 Schedule IV set. That mismatch sits inside the State's own texts and is recorded here rather than resolved. Every entry quoted in this cell is quoted from the Latin and French column that the annex itself prints beside the Arabic. The Arabic column of the Ministry file does not extract to reliable text for the older pages, where the embedded font maps to the wrong code points, so no Arabic is quoted from it here and no Arabic was retyped from a rendered page. The serial numbers in that file are unsafe for the same reason, because the Arabic-Indic digits come out transposed, which is why this cell locates an entry by the names printed on either side of it rather than by its number. The placement stated here is not printed in the dossier this lane was given. That dossier's quotation column carries a synthesised search record on 52 of its 88 rows, a sentence of the shape an exact local-language term, Latin name, common synonym, salts and isomers wording and post-enactment amendment route searched for this slug, which is printed in no instrument; on its remaining 36 rows it carries a bare Arabic substance name with no table, no schedule and no article. No row of it names a table: 0 of 88 quotations carry a table or schedule number, and its instrument column says Tables 1-5 on all 88 rows. Its URL column is the publisher's home page with a text fragment appended. Its paragraph 4 states that no single consolidated annex current to 20 September 2026 was located, and the Ministry of Public Health publishes exactly such a consolidation on the narcotics page the dossier itself cites. Its paragraph 3 states that no death sentence was established in Law 673, which is right about the drug offences and wrong as written, because article 140 does carry the death penalty for killing an official enforcing the Law. Every placement in this batch was therefore read in the annex rather than taken from that column. Law 673 has been amended by Law 193 of 24 May 2000, which rewrote articles 15, 17, 29, 34, 44, 57 and 88, by Law 272 of 5 January 2001, which added a paragraph exempting licensed industrial establishments holding an industrial certificate from the Ministry of Industry in respect of Table 4 substances, and by Law 318 of 2001, which repealed article 132. What could not be established for this cell is the text of the two decrees of 16 May 2025 themselves. The University note records them and gives no Official Gazette citation for them, and three routes were tried on 22 September 2026: a search of the Official Gazette index for issue 23 of May 2025, which lists decrees 223, 331, 333 and 334 and not 342 or 343; a query by number and year against the Lebanese University legislation search, which answered HTTP 500 on both numbers; and open search in Arabic and English on the decree numbers and on the substance names, which returned no primary text. The consolidation is also silent on the stronger point, that no decree later than 16 May 2025 has moved these tables.
moph.gov.lb · unodc.org · moph.gov.lb · legallaw.ul.edu.lb · legallaw.ul.edu.lb · Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, Official Gazette 14 of 26 March 1998 at pages 975 to 1016, 252 articles, consolidated text of the Lebanese University Centre for Legal Informatics, read 22 September 2026 in the copy that Centre prints and that UNODC hosts at the address above · the tables annexed to that Law as consolidated by the Ministry of Public Health in Legislation Nationale, Substances placees sous controle, the file carrying the seventh modification of January 2019, read 22 September 2026 · the Lebanese University consolidation note on the annexed tables, which records Decree 2432 of 11 February 2000, Decree 6608 of 23 October 2001, Decree 8065 of 20 June 2002, Decree 12137 of 7 March 2004, Decree 1189 of 8 January 2009, Decree 6221 of 27 August 2011, Decree 11051 of 11 January 2014, Decree 3403 of 12 May 2016, Decree 3610 of 2 June 2016, Decree 2591 of 23 March 2018 and Decrees 342 and 343 of 16 May 2025 · Law 193 of 24 May 2000, Official Gazette 23 of 1 June 2000 · Law 272 of 5 January 2001, Official Gazette 3 of 11 January 2001 · Law 318 of 2001, which repealed article 132 · the description of enforcement as uneven, the treatment diversion as only partly implemented and the about 6 months figure are carried forward from the cell this replaces and were not re-derived · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
This row is not printed in Fylgiskjal I, so 5. gr. of reglugerð nr. 1277/2022 um innflutning einstaklinga á lyfjum til eigin nota, which governs medicines containing a Fylgiskjal I substance, does not reach it, and the ordinary rule in 4. gr. applies instead. A traveller arriving from a state inside the European Economic Area may carry a year's supply for personal use at the directions of a doctor or of the marketing authorisation holder, and a traveller arriving from outside it is limited to 100 days. By post or freight the limit is 100 days from inside the European Economic Area, and sending from outside it is not permitted. Where the medicine is prescription only, 3. gr. still requires a doctor's certificate or the prescription with its directions, or the dispensing label, to be shown to customs on arrival.
Documentation
No narcotics document is engaged by this row, because the narcotics instruments do not reach it. If it is a prescription medicine, 3. gr. of reglugerð nr. 1277/2022 still requires a doctor's certificate or the prescription with its directions, or the dispensing label, to be shown to customs on arrival, and the ordinary quantity ceilings in 4. gr. apply. The legislation outside the narcotics instruments that governs it was not read for this cell, so this is not advice that nothing else applies.
Iceland, reglugerð nr. 233/2001 um ávana- og fíkniefni og önnur eftirlitsskyld efni, Fylgiskjal I and Fylgiskjal II with articles 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 10 · lög nr. 65/1974 um ávana- og fíkniefni, articles 2, 2 a, 3, 4, 5 and 6 · almenn hegningarlög nr. 19/1940, article 173 a · lög nr. 32/2001, article 1 · reglugerð nr. 879/2025 · reglugerð nr. 1036/2025 · reglugerð nr. 1277/2022, articles 3, 4, 5 and 7 · island.is · Updated October 2, 2026
Malta, CBD, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Cap. 101 art. 2 and Fifth Schedule Part I · amendment power in art. 34(3), and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026
If prescribed / medical
CBD is sold as an ordinary consumer or industrial product rather than dispensed on a prescription, so there is no prescription document to carry for it and the name a Salvadoran record would use is cannabidiol. The special prescription machinery in Article 37 of the Reglamento is built for narcotics, psychotropics and agregados and has nothing to say about a product outside those three categories.
Documentation
The instrument read for this cell is the Ley Reguladora de las Actividades Relativas a las Drogas, Decreto Legislativo 153 of 2 October 2003, published in Diario Oficial 208, Tomo 361, of 7 November 2003, in the consolidated text published by the Asamblea Legislativa. That text carries its own reform schedule: five reforms, the last of them Decreto Legislativo 78 of 25 July 2018 in Diario Oficial 156, Tomo 420, of 24 August 2018, so the consolidation read here is current to that reform. The same reform schedule was confirmed against a second publisher, the transparency portal of the Fiscalia General de la Republica, which prints the identical list of five. The text also carries four rulings of the Sala de lo Constitucional, three of which strike the fine in Articles 31, 33 and 34 and the fourth of which struck the rule in Article 52 that equated preparatory acts with completed offences before that article was reformed in 2018. The substance list read for this cell is the Listado de sustancias estupefacientes, psicotropicos, precursores y agregados 2026, approved by Acuerdo SI.2026.03.20-01 of the Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria. That document states its own currency in its Disposiciones generales: it was approved by that acuerdo and is «vigente hasta el 31 de marzo de 2027, o hasta que se emita un nuevo listado por parte de la Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria». It was read as at 21 September 2026, and the 2025 edition of the same list was fetched first and set aside once the 2026 edition was found on the regulator's own page. The list is the one Article 13 of the Ley requires, «una lista de drogas y de todas las preparaciones y especialidades farmaceuticas que las contengan de acuerdo a las categorias establecidas en la presente Ley», which Article 13 also requires to be sent to the Corte Suprema de Justicia, the Fiscalia General de la Republica and the Policia Nacional Civil so that judges and prosecutors know it. Article 13 names the Consejo Superior de Salud Publica as the body that makes it; the 2013 Reglamento names the Direccion Nacional de Medicamentos as the governing authority, and the Ley de la Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria dissolved that Direccion and moved its functions to the Superintendencia with effect from August 2024. That succession is stated from the Reglamento and from reporting of the Superintendencia law, whose own gazette text was not read for this cell. Article 2 defines droga in its own words: «Art. 2.- Para los efectos de esta Ley se consideran drogas las sustancias especificadas como tales en los Convenios Internacionales ratificados por El Salvador, las que se mencionan en el Código de Salud y demás leyes del país; y en general, las que indistintamente de su grado de pureza, actúan sobre el sistema nervioso central y tienen la capacidad de producir transformaciones, bien sea aumentando o disminuyendo su funcionamiento o modificando los estados de conciencia y que su uso indebido puede causar dependencia o sujeción física y psicológica.» Article 3 then prohibits activity relating to five named categories and, in letter f, «f) Cualquier otra sustancia que sea considerada droga tan nociva que amerite ser prohibida por el Consejo Superior de Salud Pública o por los convenios internacionales ratificados por el país.» The names searched across the list, in Spanish and in English, were cannabidiol, CBD. No entry was returned for any of them, and none of them produced an occurrence of any kind in the list. Three routes were tried for the instrument and all three returned a document: the Asamblea Legislativa decree file, which returned the consolidated text; the transparency portal of the Fiscalia General de la Republica, which returned the same consolidation; and the regulator's own listado page, which returned the 2026 list. Two routes returned nothing usable: the Asamblea decree index and law search paths both returned a not found page, and a fetch of the Asamblea search page failed on certificate verification. Carry any controlled medicine in its dispensing packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with the Salvadoran embassy or consulate before you travel.
Ley Reguladora de las Actividades Relativas a las Drogas, Decreto Legislativo 153 of 2 October 2003, Articles 2, 3, 13, 31, 32, 33, 34, 54 and 55, consolidated text published by the Asamblea Legislativa, Diario Oficial 208, Tomo 361, of 7 November 2003 · Consolidation: current to Decreto Legislativo 78 of 25 July 2018, Diario Oficial 156, Tomo 420, of 24 August 2018, the last of the five reforms the text's own schedule prints, confirmed against the Fiscalia General de la Republica transparency copy · Unconstitutionality of the fine: Article 34 by the accumulated 2006 judgments, Diario Oficial 196, Tomo 377, of 22 October 2007, Article 33 by the 92-2007 judgments, Diario Oficial 152, Tomo 384, of 19 August 2009, and Article 31 by judgment 45-2010, Diario Oficial 197, Tomo 401, of 23 October 2013 · Listado de sustancias estupefacientes, psicotropicos, precursores y agregados 2026, approved by Acuerdo SI.2026.03.20-01 of the Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria, read as at 21 September 2026, the document stating its own currency to 31 March 2027 or until a new listado is issued · Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Sicotropicos, Precursores, Sustancias y Productos Quimicos y Agregados, Decreto Ejecutivo 20, Diario Oficial of 13 February 2013, Articles 5, 26, 36, 37 and 40 · Placement: no entry returned in the listado, and the open limb of Article 2 not resolved for this row · Penalty figures for the 2 gram line and the year bands in Articles 31, 33 and 34 carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived from a new source, then re-read against the Asamblea text. The Article 34 graver offence proviso, Articles 54 and 55 and the three unconstitutionality rulings are read from that text and are new to this cell · asamblea.gob.sv · srs.gob.sv · portaldetransparencia.fgr.gob.sv · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Cannabidiol is sold abroad as a supplement rather than dispensed, so there is no prescription to carry. Article 12 of Decreto 126/89 governs medicines that contain a controlled substance, and this row is not one of them.
Documentation
The instrument read for this cell is the consolidated text of the Ley sobre el Uso Indebido y Tráfico Ilícito de Drogas y Sustancias Psicotrópicas, Decreto 126/89, published by the Tribunal Superior de Cuentas, which carries its own footnote to La Gaceta 25992 of 23 November 1989 and to the Decreto 86-93 reform in La Gaceta 27162 of 1 October 1993, together with the Código Penal, Decreto 130-2017, as printed in La Gaceta 34,940 of 10 May 2019. Articles 16 to 30 and 41 of Decreto 126/89 were repealed by Article 632 of that Code, so the 1989 law now supplies definitions and administrative prohibitions and the Code supplies every offence. The live cell dated the Code to 10 November 2019, which is the date Article 635 as enacted would have produced from a publication of 10 May 2019; commencement was postponed twice and the Code took effect on 25 June 2020. That last date is carried from the reported amendment of Article 635 published in La Gaceta 35,247 of 9 May 2020, which was not read at the gazette for this cell. The schedules Article 321 adopts were read in the International Narcotics Control Board Yellow List, 65th edition of July 2026, the Green List, 36th edition of 2025, and the Red List, 23rd edition of July 2025, on 21 September 2026. The names searched across the three lists and across the Honduran text were cannabidiol, CBD and 2-[(1R,6R)-3-methyl-6-prop-1-en-2-ylcyclohex-2-en-1-yl]-5-pentylbenzene-1,3-diol. No entry was returned for any of them, and none of them returned an occurrence of any kind. Article 11 of Decreto 126/89 survives and still reads «Se prohíbe a toda persona mantener en su poder ya sea en sus ropas o valijas, en su domicilio, lugar de trabajo, automóvil o cualquier otro lugar bajo su orden y responsabilidad, sin autorización legal, cantidad alguna de estupefacientes y sustancias controladas», and Article 6 still routes the definitions through the conventions and the Reglamento de Control de Estupefacientes y otras Drogas Peligrosas, but the article that carried the penalty for breaching them is repealed, so that prohibition now stands without a sanction of its own. Carry any controlled medicine in its dispensing packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with the Honduran consulate before you travel.
Ley sobre el Uso Indebido y Tráfico Ilícito de Drogas y Sustancias Psicotrópicas, Decreto 126/89, consolidated text published by the Tribunal Superior de Cuentas, carrying its own footnotes to La Gaceta 25992 of 23 November 1989 and to the Decreto 86-93 reform in La Gaceta 27162 of 1 October 1993 · Código Penal, Decreto 130-2017, Arts 311/312, with Arts 313, 314, 321 and 632, as published in La Gaceta 34,940 of 10 May 2019 · Commencement: Art. 635 as enacted set six months from that publication, and the move to 25 June 2020 is carried from the reported amendment of Art. 635 in La Gaceta 35,247 of 9 May 2020, which was not read at the gazette · Penalty figures for Art. 311, Art. 312 and Art. 26 carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived in this pass. The Art. 311 fine, the lesser gravity terms, Art. 313 and the Art. 321 quantities are read from that Gaceta text · Placement: no entry found in the 1961, 1971 or 1988 lists for cannabidiol, CBD, 2-[(1R,6R)-3-methyl-6-prop-1-en-2-ylcyclohex-2-en-1-yl]-5-pentylbenzene-1,3-diol · Lists read in the International Narcotics Control Board Yellow List, 65th edition of July 2026, the Green List, 36th edition of 2025, and the Red List, 23rd edition of July 2025, on 21 September 2026 · tsc.gob.hn · tsc.gob.hn · Updated September 21, 2026
Documentation
Carry nothing on the strength of this row. It is unresolved rather than negative, and that is the shortest carriage answer in the set for exactly that reason. Put the question to the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus or to the nearest Belarusian embassy before travelling with CBD, and ask it as a question about the республиканский перечень rather than about the substance in general. The search behind this deferral is recorded at BEL-28 and was run against № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments on 20 September 2026. Ask about cannabidiol specifically and mention that other isolated cannabinoids are named in the annexes, because that framing is what makes the absence answerable.
Belarus, Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11 февраля 2015 г. республиканский перечень, приложение, списки 1 to 4, record BEL-28 · version specific absence record, search set "CBD", "kanabidiol" · Criminal Code Article 328 supplies the offence and the ceiling, Article 328(5) · version read: № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments · read as at 20 September 2026 · pravo.by · pravo.by · pravo.by · national legal portal https://pravo.by/ · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
No instrument read gives a CBD extract a medical use or a prescription route. The section 2 definition of trafficking excludes supply «for medical purposes, and in accordance with the provisions of this Act» by a medical practitioner, veterinary surgeon, dentist or registered pharmacist, and that exclusion is not shown here to reach a CBD extract. The Medicines and Medical Devices Act, Cap 219, was not read. Section 2 defines «medicinal cannabis» as «any extract or tincture of cannabis», and no regulations made for it were read.
Documentation
Searches for cannabidiol and cbd returned nothing. The Act prints no THC limit and no hemp exemption, so a CBD extract is not taken outside the entry by a low THC content. Synthetic CBD with no tetrahydrocannabinol is not listed and is reached, if at all, by section 15(2). Section 15(3)(iii) and 16(2)(c) give cannabis its own weight line of 100 kilogram, and whether an extract is weighed on that line or on the 200 gram line is not settled by the text. The previous cell quoted the full entry and still deferred, because section 15(2) needed proof it did not have; the section 2 definition of cannabis is what places a plant extract. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First and Second Schedules «by notice published in the Gazette». The Revised Edition 2023 does not carry GN No. 189 of 2024, published 22 March 2024: its First Schedule subheadings still read «as at 18th May 2016» and «as at 13 November 2016», which that notice replaced with «as of the year 2022». This does not rule out a later notice than GN No. 189 of 2024; the TanzLII index of notices under the Act answered 403 and could not be listed. Zanzibar runs its own regime under Act No. 8 of 2021, and this cell does not apply it to a CBD extract row by row. As read by OCR, that Act's First Schedule reproduces the INCB Yellow List of narcotic drugs and the Red List of precursors, and no list of psychotropic substances was found in it; its section 2 defines a «narcotic and psychotropic substance» by effect, as «a substance, which interact with central nervous system that affect and alter mental process»; section 20(2) treats «Any drugs or substances approved by the Government Analyst to have directly or indirectly connection with narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances which are not found under the First Schedule» as prohibited; section 21(1)(d) reaches unlisted substances with drug related effects only «in large quantity»; and section 23 sets a fine or imprisonment for a term of one year or both for small quantity personal possession.
Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, Revised Edition 2023 (first enacted as the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015), Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, https://elibrary.osg.go.tz/items/33046f4d-7792-42d7-bdc6-0122b112a200/full, PDF https://elibrary.osg.go.tz/server/api/core/bitstreams/1438371a-253b-4360-8c28-a9abed3572d0/content, sections 1, 2, 14, 15(2), 15(3), 16, 18 and 19 and the First and Second Schedules · Drug Control and Enforcement (Amendment of First and Second Schedule) Notice, 2024, GN No. 189 of 2024, published 22 March 2024, https://media.tanzlii.org/media/legislation/319515/source_file/5d9a474c1c8745d4/tz-act-gn-2024-189-publication-document.pdf · Zanzibar Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority Act, No. 8 of 2021, https://zanzibarassembly.go.tz/storage/documents/acts/english/all/1675064114.pdf, sections 2, 19 to 23 and the First Schedule, read by OCR. Stated as the Schedules stand after GN No. 189 of 2024. · Updated October 3, 2026
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Carry nothing on the strength of this row, and put the question to the Moldovan medicines authority or the nearest Moldovan embassy before you travel with CBD. That is the carriage answer, and it is the shortest kind in the set because the row is unresolved rather than negative. Provenance follows. The controlling text is Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006, read in the official consolidated record on 20 September 2026 through the legislation portal legis.md, with the first and final annex headings and the final available amendment page checked. The search that produced record MOL-28 used "CBD", "kanabidiol" and is recorded in the legal status field above, and the near comparison it inspected and rejected is named there too. Ask specifically whether the substance appears under a Romanian spelling outside that term set, because that is the gap this row leaves open.
Moldova, CBD, from the 20 September 2026 repair dossier record MOL-28, search set "CBD", "kanabidiol" · framework statute Legea nr. 382/1999 cu privire la circulaţia substanţelor stupefiante, psihotrope şi a precursorilor · offences and ceiling at Codul penal, Article 217 and Article 217¹, with the ceiling at Article 217¹(4) · searched across every annex of the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 without reaching a settled answer · near comparison inspected and rejected: «CANNABIS, plantă» · outcome recorded by the source: not verified, carried here as a deferral rather than as a status · read as in force on 20 September 2026 on the official Moldovan legislation portal · legis.md · legis.md · https://www.legis.md/ The sentence band in this cell is carried forward from the entry published before this batch and was not re-derived from the statute in this pass · it is tagged [Likely] where it appears. · Updated September 21, 2026
Ley No. 735 consolidated text, articles 1 and 101, published in La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 32 of 20 February 2024 under the Digesto Juridico of Ley No. 1159 · Ley No. 1220, reforming article 1, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 171 of 13 September 2024 · Ley No. 641 Codigo Penal, Titulo XIV, articles 348 to 362, in that same consolidated text · Ley No. 1216, reforming article 358 and adding articles 362 bis and 362 ter, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 166 of 6 September 2024 · lists and tables annexed to Ley No. 285, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 70 of 16 April 1999, incorporated by article 101 of Ley No. 735 · pgr.gob.ni · pgr.gob.ni · uaf.gob.ni · Penalty, quantity and fine figures in this cell were re-derived from the articles named above and were NOT carried forward from the entry this replaces. The figures in that entry traced to the 1994 text of Ley No. 177, which article 101 of Ley No. 735 derogates, and they are displaced rather than preserved. · Updated September 21, 2026
National List of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, as the Drug Control Agency published it, read on 3 October 2026 · akn.tj · Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023, opening text and amendment date · online.zakon.kz · the Drug Control Agency's consolidation of the National List as amended up to Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023, a.doc file headed «Проект» · akn.tj · Criminal Code Annex 1, recorded at ncz.tj as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023, read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026 · prg.kz · prg.kz · Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, Law No. 574 of 21 May 1998, articles 200, 201 and 206, prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, read on 3 October 2026 · prg.kz · Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, articles 2, 10 and 15 · ncz.tj · carried from the previous version of this cell: Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, National List, as the dossier read it on 18 September 2026 · akn.tj · Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, Appendix 1, Table 1 and arts 200 to 204, cited by the dossier row with no URL of its own · Updated October 3, 2026
Lei n.º 3/99, de 6 de Agosto, arts. 4.º, 8.º, 9.º, 10.º and 23.º and the annexed tables (Diário da República de Angola, I Série, n.º 32, 6 de Agosto de 1999) · Acórdão do Tribunal Supremo, 3.ª Secção da Câmara Criminal, Proc. n.º 4790/20, 14 de Setembro de 2023 · files.lex.ao · tribunalsupremo.ao · Updated September 16, 2026
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is stated for this row, because a prescribing rule in these Regulations attaches to a schedule and this substance is in none of them. Regulation 4 is the rule a traveller would want, and it operates only on Schedules IV and V: it lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for both, and the section 7(1) possession prohibition for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product and for a Schedule V preparation outright. Whether this substance is reached by the Act's own Second Schedule, and so is a controlled drug taking none of those exemptions, was not settled here.
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There is nothing to carry for this row on the strength of the volume read, because the volume neither names the substance nor rules it out. If you are travelling with a prescribed medicine, carry it in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period; that evidences a therapeutic purpose and nothing more. What was actually checked for this row: Cannabidiol and CBD returned nothing in either file; Cannabinol, which is a different compound, returned nine occurrences in the subsidiary volume. The nearest printed entries are Cannabinol and Cannabinol derivatives in Schedule I paragraph 1(a), and the Act's definition of the second at section 2(1)(f). The volume was read on 22 September 2026.
Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103, the Subsidiary Laws volume, Revised Edition 2020, showing the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020, searched in full across the Misuse of Drugs Regulations and their Schedules I to V, the Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations and the Industrial Hemp Regulations · agm.gov.bz · the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text runs from section 1 to partway through section 28 and carries none of its First, Second or Third Schedules, so the list that decides control was not read · read as at 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
Not confirmed. No placement on either list was established, so no position under the article 5 recept machinery or the article 7 exemptions can be stated for this substance.
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Carry any prescription medicine in its original packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with the Surinamese authorities before travelling, because the list read here stops in 2002. Even for a substance that is on the lists, the own medical use exemption in article 7 lid 3 covers possession and carriage inside Suriname and does not cover limb A of article 3 lid 1 or of article 4 lid 1, the import, export and transit limb, for which article 6 lid 1 requires the permission of the Minister after approval by the Procureur-Generaal bij het Hof van Justitie. The text relied on stops at S.B. 2002 no. 68. Any lijst, onderdeel or numbered part named in this cell are read from the annex to the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, whose quotation column for this jurisdiction carries no division marker for any substance.
Wet verdovende middelen, S.B. 1998 no. 14, gelijk zij luidt na de daarin aangebrachte wijzigingen bij S.B. 2002 no. 68, articles 1 to 14 and the annexed lijst I and lijst II, read as at S.B. 2002 no. 68, the last amendment carried in the text consulted · https://www.dna.sr/media/34ygwacb/wet_verdovende_middelen.pdf, published by De Nationale Assemblee, the National Assembly of Suriname · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026
State of Palestine, applicable penal law (Gaza Strip military orders · West Bank PA framework) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Section 9(3) requires the Minister to make regulations securing that it is lawful for a practitioner, acting as such, to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and that it is lawful for a practitioner, chemist and druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail chemist and druggist business to have a controlled drug in possession for the purpose of that profession or trade. Section 9(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by Order. The regulations and any such Order are separate instruments and are not in the text read here, so whether an authorised medicinal form of this substance exists in Antigua and Barbuda was not established. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription.
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Antigua and Barbuda is not in the Schengen area, so a Schengen certificate is not the relevant document, and no local traveller certificate was established from Cap. 283. Carry a prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescribing document. Section 7(1) adds a duty that catches travellers: a person who has a controlled drug lawfully in possession and discovers its loss or theft must report it at the nearest police station as soon as possible and in any event within twenty four hours, and section 7(2) makes failure to do so an offence.
Misuse of Drugs Act, Cap. 283, Laws of Antigua and Barbuda, Revised Edition, First Schedule Parts I to IV and Second Schedule, with sections 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 25 and 26 · laws.gov.ag · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
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There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading the closed isomer list in Part II and the section 2 plant definitions, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read the closed isomer list in Part II and the section 2 plant definitions, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter set out the general authority to possess in regulation 5 and the prescription rules in regulations 14 and 15. None of that machinery reaches this row, because nothing in Parts I to III was shown to place CBD and the Regulations operate on controlled drugs as section 4 defines them. So the Act does not tell a traveller which authorisation, if any, would be the right one to hold. The question that has to be settled first is the one this row is drawn around: the Class B entry «Cannabis and cannabis resin» and the Part IV definition of «cannabinol derivatives» was the nearest printed text and it was read and rejected.
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Do not read an absence from a schedule authorised in 1991 as permission. Ask the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission whether an Order under section 4(3) has added this substance to the Third Schedule since that authorisation, and whether any medicines or pharmacy instrument outside this Act reaches it, and ask before you travel rather than on arrival. If you carry it as a medicine, bring the original dispensing packaging, the prescription and a letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so identification is settled by analysis. The nearest printed entry read and rejected for this row was the Class B entry «Cannabis and cannabis resin» and the Part IV definition of «cannabinol derivatives». The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.
Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 7 and 27 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The absence stated here rests on a visual reading of the complete Part I, Part II and Part III lists on printed pages 30, 31 and 32 as page images, not on a text search: the text layer of this scan drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts, and the revised edition itself prints several entries with transposed letters, so a search of the text layer alone would return a false zero for any name the printer mangled. Those pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». The nearest printed text read and rejected for this row was the Class B entry «Cannabis and cannabis resin» and the Part IV definition of «cannabinol derivatives». This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «cbd national source» rather than an address. The compilation read for this row recorded no printed entry claim, so nothing from it was carried across. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026
Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
