25I-NBOMe in Saint Lucia: not individually verified

Also known as: n-bomb

We have not confirmed that 25I-NBOMe specifically is scheduled in Saint Lucia, so this page gives no legal status. Publishing a guess here would be worse than publishing nothing. What we do know is the governing national drug law, below.

What is on record

Not confirmed. 25I-NBOMe is not printed by name or by chemical name anywhere in the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02: the search terms 25I-NBOMe, NBOMe, benzyl, methoxybenzyl and N-benzyl all return zero across the whole act as it stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. Whether it is nonetheless a Class A drug turns on a construction question this reading cannot settle. Part I paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 2 catches a compound 'structurally derived from phenethylamine, an N-alklphenethylamine, methylphenethylamine, an N-alkyl- -methylphenethylamine, -ethylphenethylamine, or an N-alkyl- -ethylphenethylamine by substitution in the ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy or halide substituents'. 25I-NBOMe is 2C-I carrying a 2-methoxybenzyl group on the side chain nitrogen. On one reading a benzyl group is not an alkyl group, so the compound is derived from no parent the clause lists and the clause does not reach it. On the other reading the compound is derived from phenethylamine by ring substitution with alkoxy and halide groups, and the N-benzyl group is simply a further feature the clause does not forbid. The difference between those readings is the difference between no offence at all and a life ceiling under section 25(1)(b), and nothing in the printed words resolves it. 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.

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